Astonishing Facts....

[Echo66]

Halmyre said:

StevieBee said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Stephen Lewis, who played Blakey in On The Buses, was just 46 when they made the last programme. 20 years younger than Butler (Reg Varney).

I think I'm right in saying that Clive Dunn played Corporal Jones in Dad's Army, one of the older characters was in reality, one of the youngest members of the cast.

Private Godfrey is supposed to have been a conscientious objector who served in the Medical Corps, but in reality he would have been too old to be called up in the first place (yes I know he's not real).

Arnold Ridley was a very very brave man in WW1. He also served in WW2 in France.

Clive Dunn, iirc was only in his 40's at the time & yes, apart from Pike was the youngest male cast member

[Pommy]

The fuel filler flap for the Lamborghini Countach is located almost hidden in the air scoop near to the door opening button on the drivers side

[anonymous-user]

The Great Pyramid was built circa 2560 BC, while Cleopatra lived around 30 BC.

She lived closer to the launch of the first men on the moon than she did the building of the pyramids.

[tomsugden]

Edinburgh is further west than Bristol.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

From launch to 50 million users, it took the telephone 75 years, the radio 38 years, the TV 13 years, the world wide web 4 years, Facebook 3.5 years, and Pokémon Go 19 days.

[julian64]

Currently behind every living person on the planet there are only fifteen ghosts.


In the late nineteen sixties there were nearly thirty ghosts

[boyse7en]

silverfoxcc said:

OzzyR1 said:

If you wrapped a rope around the solar system, then another 1ft further out, the difference in lengths between the two ropes would be around 6ft.

The same would apply to a football - difference would be around 6ft.

100% correct, although it doesnt seem possible

And another one

If you drive twice around a half mile circular track and take one minute to do it.you cannot go fast enough in the second lap to average 60 mph for the total distance.

Don't quite follow this (maybe brain fade)

Two laps of a half mile = 1 mile
Two laps in one minute = 1 mile in one minute = an average of 60mph.
What am i missing?


>preparing cloak of shame...

[Flippin' Kipper]

boyse7en said:

Don't quite follow this (maybe brain fade)

Two laps of a half mile = 1 mile
Two laps in one minute = 1 mile in one minute = an average of 60mph.
What am i missing?


>preparing cloak of shame...

1 minute for the first lap maybe?

New York is further South than Rome

[TwigtheWonderkid]

boyse7en said:

silverfoxcc said:

OzzyR1 said:

If you wrapped a rope around the solar system, then another 1ft further out, the difference in lengths between the two ropes would be around 6ft.

The same would apply to a football - difference would be around 6ft.

100% correct, although it doesnt seem possible

And another one

If you drive twice around a half mile circular track and take one minute to do it.you cannot go fast enough in the second lap to average 60 mph for the total distance.

Don't quite follow this (maybe brain fade)

Two laps of a half mile = 1 mile
Two laps in one minute = 1 mile in one minute = an average of 60mph.
What am i missing?


>preparing cloak of shame...

I think he has it wrong.

What he means is that if you want to do a 2 mile journey at an average of 60 mph, and you do the first mile at 30mph, you cannot average 60 mph over 2 miles no matter how fast you drive the 2nd mile.

[Flippin' Kipper]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

I think he has it wrong.

What he means is that if you want to do a 2 mile journey at an average of 60 mph, and you do the first mile at 30mph, you cannot average 60 mph over 2 miles no matter how fast you drive the 2nd mile.

you would just do 90 for the second mile, (30+90)/2 = 60

[98elise]

julian64 said:

LarryUSA said:

I can verify this - very few to chose from and the 110v electricity means it takes twice as long to boil! Always make sure the absolute minimum water needed is used.

I believe this is the daftest thing written on the internet today.

I did post (but deleted) saying that power is a product of voltage and current so the voltage alone makes no difference to the boil time.

I then checked the current rating of a 110v mains in the US and it's about 15A so a kettle will be slower than a UK kettle, but not half time. It will be something like 1.7kw vs 2kw (or more) and it's the power rating that matters for heating, not the voltage.

I couldn't be arsed to verify it though so deleted the initial post.

[shakotan]

Digger said:

Ginetta G15 Girl said:

Digger said:

Regarding kettles, it is a fact. Surprised me as well! Must be to do with the voltage.

I'm afraid it isn't a fact. My American friends (in America) have a US made electric kettle.

Well, it is a fact that the vast majority of UK households have an electric kettle, whereas the vast majority of US households do not. You know what I meant.

Makes you wonder why these folks bother stocking 177 different types of electric kettle then...

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/searchpage.jsp?st=ele...

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Flippin' Kipper said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

I think he has it wrong.

What he means is that if you want to do a 2 mile journey at an average of 60 mph, and you do the first mile at 30mph, you cannot average 60 mph over 2 miles no matter how fast you drive the 2nd mile.

you would just do 90 for the second mile, (30+90)/2 = 60

Maths fail.

To do 2 miles at 60mph will take 2 minutes. But it's already taken you 2 minutes to do one mile at 30 mph.

[S11Steve]

Hippos milk is pink.

And Oxford University predates the Aztec empire.

I learned these at a pub quiz many years ago, and have never forgotten them.
They have taken up the space in my memory that should be reserved for remembering my mothers Birthday...

[Flippin' Kipper]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Flippin' Kipper said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

I think he has it wrong.

What he means is that if you want to do a 2 mile journey at an average of 60 mph, and you do the first mile at 30mph, you cannot average 60 mph over 2 miles no matter how fast you drive the 2nd mile.

you would just do 90 for the second mile, (30+90)/2 = 60

Maths fail.

To do 2 miles at 60mph will take 2 minutes. But it's already taken you 2 minutes to do one mile at 30 mph.

[FredAstaire]

98elise said:

I did post (but deleted) saying that power is a product of voltage and current so the voltage alone makes no difference to the boil time.

I then checked the current rating of a 110v mains in the US and it's about 15A so a kettle will be slower than a UK kettle, but not half time. It will be something like 1.7kw vs 2kw (or more) and it's the power rating that matters for heating, not the voltage.

I couldn't be arsed to verify it though so deleted the initial post.

but the current through the appliance will be a product of voltage and resistance of the kettle element. So, if the kettle were exaclty the same barring the plug being changed, it would take longer.

[The Hypno-Toad]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Stephen Lewis, who played Blakey in On The Buses, was just 46 when they made the last programme. 20 years younger than Butler (Reg Varney).

Reg Varney was the very first person in the UK to use a cash point.

[Johnspex]

When Dick Van Dyke and Lionel Jefferies were in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Jefferies played Van Dyke's father but he was only 2years older.

[DRFC1879]

julian64 said:

Currently behind every living person on the planet there are only fifteen ghosts.


In the late nineteen sixties there were nearly thirty ghosts

Hey Julian, how are you doing and what the juddering fk are you on about?

Edit: Friday afternoon literalism got me for a moment there. I guess it's something to do with current world population measured against all those who've lived before or summat?

[catfood12]

From the electric kettle in my Canadian hotel room this morning... 1500W, similar to UK ones, just double the current at 110V;