Share Your Interesting But Not Very Useful Facts

Share Your Interesting But Not Very Useful Facts

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Zumbruk

7,848 posts

260 months

Tuesday 30th May 2023
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Penny Whistle said:
98elise said:
Ayahuasca said:
98elise said:
"nature abhors a vacuum" is wrong.

Most of the universe is a vacuum smile
Doesn’t mean nature likes it.

Anyway space is not a vacuum, there Is always a small amount of matter in it.
All the bits at are not a vacuum stick together rather than rush to fill space smile
What's in between all the sub-atomic particles in tiny bits of stuff ?
Quantum foam.

redrabbit29

1,352 posts

133 months

Sunday 4th June 2023
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Contraceptive pills are called "antibabypillen" in Germany

The Welsh word for Microwave is "Popty Ping" (they have a more boring word too)

Doofus

25,784 posts

173 months

Sunday 4th June 2023
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redrabbit29 said:
Contraceptive pills are called "antibabypillen" in Germany

The Welsh word for Microwave is "Popty Ping" (they have a more boring word too)
'Popty ping' is slang, at best. smile

Frimley111R

15,623 posts

234 months

Friday 30th June 2023
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Due to the heavily aging population of Japan, they now sell more adult nappies than baby ones there.

talksthetorque

10,815 posts

135 months

Saturday 1st July 2023
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Frimley111R said:
Due to the heavily aging population of Japan, they now sell more adult nappies than baby ones there.
Pmsl.

eldar

21,718 posts

196 months

Saturday 1st July 2023
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talksthetorque said:
Pmsl.
Hence the nappy?

Doofus

25,784 posts

173 months

Sunday 9th July 2023
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I Am Legend, the 2007 movie starring Will Smith was based on a novel by Richard Matheson, which was written in 1954 and set in 1976.

Nethybridge

904 posts

12 months

Monday 10th July 2023
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Sammy Davis Jr. famously smoked 7 packs per day.

That works out at 8.7 fags an hour during a 16 hour day, one every 7 mins, being a showbiz type
it's likely he didn't get 8 hrs sleep a night so that would bring the average down to maybe a fag
every 10-15 mins.

Surprisingly Sammy made it to 64 before his throat gave out and succumbed to cancer, his mate
Nat King Cole [ himself a prodigious consumer of throat fkers ] warned Sammy that inhaling while
singing was not a good idea.

Doofus

25,784 posts

173 months

Monday 10th July 2023
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Nethybridge said:
Sammy Davis Jr. famously smoked 7 packs per day.

That works out at 8.7 fags an hour during a 16 hour day, one every 7 mins, being a showbiz type
it's likely he didn't get 8 hrs sleep a night so that would bring the average down to maybe a fag
every 10-15 mins.

Surprisingly Sammy made it to 64 before his throat gave out and succumbed to cancer, his mate
Nat King Cole [ himself a prodigious consumer of throat fkers ] warned Sammy that inhaling while
singing was not a good idea.
If you don't inhale while you sing you'll pass out.

Nethybridge

904 posts

12 months

Monday 24th July 2023
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The Wong Fei-hung series is likely the longest movie franchise of all time,
with a staggering 123 films belonging to a series that's been running for seven decades now.

hairy v

1,181 posts

144 months

Monday 24th July 2023
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Doofus

25,784 posts

173 months

Monday 24th July 2023
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hairy v said:
What was the 'paste' made from originally?

Halmyre

11,185 posts

139 months

Monday 24th July 2023
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Doofus said:
hairy v said:
What was the 'paste' made from originally?
It's KitKats all the way down.

Milkyway

9,392 posts

53 months

Tuesday 25th July 2023
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A thimbleful of a Neutron star would weigh more than a mountain

Re Confectionary: The lines along the top of a Mars Bar represents the veins of a male organ.
( Ex Mars employee)

Edited by Milkyway on Tuesday 25th July 02:01

Doofus

25,784 posts

173 months

Tuesday 25th July 2023
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Milkyway said:
Re Confectionary: The lines along the top of a Mars Bar represents the veins of a male organ.
( Ex Mars employee)
This isn't a fact, it's bullst.

Milkyway

9,392 posts

53 months

Tuesday 25th July 2023
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Doofus said:
Milkyway said:
Re Confectionary: The lines along the top of a Mars Bar represents the veins of a male organ.
( Ex Mars employee)
This isn't a fact, it's bullst.
A well known fact within the company...

98elise

26,502 posts

161 months

Tuesday 25th July 2023
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Milkyway said:
Doofus said:
Milkyway said:
Re Confectionary: The lines along the top of a Mars Bar represents the veins of a male organ.
( Ex Mars employee)
This isn't a fact, it's bullst.
A well known fact within the company...
It may be well known, but that doesn't make it a fact.

Milkyway

9,392 posts

53 months

Tuesday 25th July 2023
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98elise said:
Milkyway said:
Doofus said:
Milkyway said:
Re Confectionary: The lines along the top of a Mars Bar represents the veins of a male organ.
( Ex Mars employee)
This isn't a fact, it's bullst.
A well known fact within the company...
It may be well known, but that doesn't make it a fact.
‘Nickers’
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/did-snickers-rem...

Halmyre

11,185 posts

139 months

Tuesday 25th July 2023
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98elise said:
Milkyway said:
Doofus said:
Milkyway said:
Re Confectionary: The lines along the top of a Mars Bar represents the veins of a male organ.
( Ex Mars employee)
This isn't a fact, it's bullst.
A well known fact within the company...
It may be well known, but that doesn't make it a fact.
Has anyone asked Marianne Faithfull for a comment?

P5BNij

15,875 posts

106 months

Tuesday 25th July 2023
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One of the Police dogs involved in the hunt for one of the 'great train robbers' was called Kevin.

One of the coppers working on the case was in the army with one of the robbers.

The two Landrovers used in the robbery had the same false reg' number 'BMG 757A' (one of them survives, as does the ex-Army Austin Loadstar lorry they used).

The loco hauling the up mail train that night, English Electric Type 4 D326 was involved in several fatal accidents before and after the robbery. It was withdrawn in 1983 and subsequently cut up.