Share Your Interesting But Not Very Useful Facts

[RATATTAK]

Doofus said:

RATATTAK said:

V6 Pushfit said:

Brass was used for door handles and knobs due to it being recognised it had anti bacterial and anti viral properties. Particularly in Hospitals.

Linoleum is the same in that respect

I've never seen a lino door knob.

You've never lived ! They're abundant in Outer mongolia !

[RATATTAK]

My upper case 'M' appears to be faulty.

[Doofus]

RATATTAK said:

You've never lived !

True dat.

[Rostfritt]

105.4 said:

AS Monaco is the only football club whose grounds are located in two separate countries, (the car park is partly in France IIRC).

The stadium for Chester FC is in Wales, but the car park is in England.

[nonsequitur]

Charlton Athletic FC car park may be in London SE7, but at the moment the team are all over the place.

They won 2-0 today, so, everyone back to the Valley.

Edited by nonsequitur on Saturday 6th February 19:14

[anonymous-user]

Houses have to be built with their damp courses 6” above ground level but houses in the Thames valley have to be built with their damp courses 6” above the 1947 flood level.

[Lily the Pink]

105.4 said:

AS Monaco is the only football club whose grounds are located in two separate countries, (the car park is partly in France IIRC).

All of Monaco's policemen are French nationals, not Monegasques.

[Rostfritt]

V6 Pushfit said:

Houses have to be built with their damp courses 6” above ground level but houses in the Thames valley have to be built with their damp courses 6” above the 1947 flood level.

Wouldn't that mean they would get damp creeping halfway up the wall if that is where the damp course has to go?

[Fermit and Sexy Sarah]

Mildly interesting, potentially useful to someone....

If you are missing your Sky Q remote, press and hold the button within the lit up 'Q' on the box for 3-4 seconds, and your lost remote will start beeping.

[Hugo a Gogo]

Fermit and Sexy Sarah said:

Mildly interesting, potentially useful to someone....

If you are missing your Sky Q remote, press and hold the button within the lit up 'Q' on the box for 3-4 seconds, and your lost remote will start beeping.

Now that's useful

[SpeckledJim]

Hugo a Gogo said:

Fermit and Sexy Sarah said:

Mildly interesting, potentially useful to someone....

If you are missing your Sky Q remote, press and hold the button within the lit up 'Q' on the box for 3-4 seconds, and your lost remote will start beeping.

Now that's useful

Very much. I’d like a version for my car keys and my mojo.

[Fermit and Sexy Sarah]

Hugo a Gogo said:

Now that's useful

Well, in the absence of a thread by the title of 'share your interesting and some what useful facts' I thought this thread would have to do

[MiseryStreak]

If you spread out the world’s human population of 7.8 billion evenly over its land surface area of 510 million square kilometres, you would have 15 people per square kilometre.

The population of the UK at this density would be 3.7 million, 5.5% of its actual population.

Each person would be approx. 200 metres apart.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Rostfritt said:

105.4 said:

AS Monaco is the only football club whose grounds are located in two separate countries, (the car park is partly in France IIRC).

The stadium for Chester FC is in Wales, but the car park is in England.

The main entrance of Sudbury Town tube station is in the London Borough of Brent, but the small rear entrance is in the London Borough of Ealing.

[Hugo a Gogo]

Fermit and Sexy Sarah said:

Hugo a Gogo said:

Now that's useful

Well, in the absence of a thread by the title of 'share your interesting and some what useful facts' I thought this thread would have to do

Well, it's only actually useful if you've got a sky box, and I haven't...

[Sticks.]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

The main entrance of Sudbury Town tube station is in the London Borough of Brent, but the small rear entrance is in the London Borough of Ealing.

If you look up Geoff Marshall on YouTube you'll find a 'secrets of' series on each tube line full of interesting but not very useful facts. For example, at Whitechapel the underground line passes over the overground like.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Sticks. said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

The main entrance of Sudbury Town tube station is in the London Borough of Brent, but the small rear entrance is in the London Borough of Ealing.

If you look up Geoff Marshall on YouTube you'll find a 'secrets of' series on each tube line full of interesting but not very useful facts. For example, at Whitechapel the underground line passes over the overground like.

Funnily enough, Geoff Marshall made a video about Sudbury Town, it being his favourite station, but never mentioned the 2 boroughs fact!

[Sticks.]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Funnily enough, Geoff Marshall made a video about Sudbury Town, it being his favourite station, but never mentioned the 2 boroughs fact!

Not like him to miss that. I do like some of the detail on the London Underground though, very satisfying.

[RyanOPlasty]

The F1 pits at Silverstone are now in Buckinghamshire, they used to be in Northamptonshire.
Driving a single lap of the GP circuit at Silverstone involves crossing the county border between Buckinghamshire and Northamptonshire four times.

[67Dino]

The smallest lizard in the world just got smaller. An expedition in Madagascar recently discovered a nano-chameleon with a body just 13.5mm long. No wonder no one spotted it before...