Share Your Interesting But Not Very Useful Facts

Share Your Interesting But Not Very Useful Facts

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Fermit and Sexy Sarah

12,787 posts

99 months

Saturday 21st March 2020
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Unless you live in the United Kingdom where it's proper to write 101 as one hundred and one, there is no number from 1 to 999 that includes the letter "a" in its word form. One, two, three, four, five, six… twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty. You can keep going, but you won't find the first letter of the alphabet until you hit one thousAnd.

Magooagain

9,909 posts

169 months

Saturday 21st March 2020
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The flock of Crows is not and the Rook on its own is not.

DickyC

Original Poster:

49,547 posts

197 months

Saturday 21st March 2020
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The tiny glass balls used to make traffic signs reflective are called Ballotini Beads.

Doofus

25,732 posts

172 months

Saturday 21st March 2020
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The brother of Japan's tallest man invented the digital photo frame.

_Rich_

966 posts

171 months

Saturday 21st March 2020
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Hugo Boss produced and supplied Nazi uniforms.

Hugo a Gogo

23,378 posts

232 months

Saturday 21st March 2020
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j44esd said:
The world's largest tyre manufacturer, by volume, is Lego.
also perhaps the world's smallest tyre manufacturer, by volume...

Pericoloso

44,044 posts

162 months

Saturday 21st March 2020
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There is now 47 virus related threads on PH.

I actually made that up but it feels like 147.

I'm not sad enough to count them all.

Riley Blue

20,915 posts

225 months

Saturday 21st March 2020
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Fermit and Sexy Sarah said:
Unless you live in the United Kingdom where it's proper to write 101 as one hundred and one, there is no number from 1 to 999 that includes the letter "a" in its word form. One, two, three, four, five, six… twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty. You can keep going, but you won't find the first letter of the alphabet until you hit one thousAnd.
One hundred and one.

MiseryStreak

2,929 posts

206 months

Saturday 21st March 2020
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If you extend a line of latitude from England’s northernmost town, Berwick-upon-Tweed (55.771N), it will pass through Moscow and Alaska.

Yet we expect the weather to be like it is in Spain.

MiseryStreak

2,929 posts

206 months

Saturday 21st March 2020
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Riley Blue said:
Fermit and Sexy Sarah said:
Unless you live in the United Kingdom where it's proper to write 101 as one hundred and one, there is no number from 1 to 999 that includes the letter "a" in its word form. One, two, three, four, five, six… twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty. You can keep going, but you won't find the first letter of the alphabet until you hit one thousAnd.
One hundred and one.
Er...One hundred and two?

MiseryStreak

2,929 posts

206 months

Saturday 21st March 2020
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Pericoloso said:
There is now 47 virus related threads on PH.

I actually made that up but it feels like 147.

I'm not sad enough to count them all.
Yeah, and you just made it one more, thanks. hehe

Condi

17,089 posts

170 months

Saturday 21st March 2020
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_Rich_ said:
Hugo Boss produced and supplied Nazi uniforms.
As did many other companies. It was just a contract, rather than Hugo Boss specifically being responsible for the design etc. smile

Fermit and Sexy Sarah

12,787 posts

99 months

Saturday 21st March 2020
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MiseryStreak said:
Riley Blue said:
Fermit and Sexy Sarah said:
Unless you live in the United Kingdom where it's proper to write 101 as one hundred and one, there is no number from 1 to 999 that includes the letter "a" in its word form. One, two, three, four, five, six… twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty. You can keep going, but you won't find the first letter of the alphabet until you hit one thousAnd.
One hundred and one.
Er...One hundred and two?
Re-read it. The word and gives you an A. In the UK we use and (EG one hundred and) but say, in the US, they say 'one oh one' 'one oh two' etc etc

Rostfritt

3,098 posts

150 months

Saturday 21st March 2020
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If you drank enough Red Bull and had a big enough fuel tank, you could drive from Carland Cross Roundabout in Cornwall to a Roundabout in Langback near Glasgow without stopping.

Hugo a Gogo

23,378 posts

232 months

Saturday 21st March 2020
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MiseryStreak said:
Riley Blue said:
Fermit and Sexy Sarah said:
Unless you live in the United Kingdom where it's proper to write 101 as one hundred and one, there is no number from 1 to 999 that includes the letter "a" in its word form. One, two, three, four, five, six… twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty. You can keep going, but you won't find the first letter of the alphabet until you hit one thousAnd.
One hundred and one.
Er...One hundred and two?

Riley Blue

20,915 posts

225 months

Saturday 21st March 2020
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Fermit and Sexy Sarah said:
MiseryStreak said:
Riley Blue said:
Fermit and Sexy Sarah said:
Unless you live in the United Kingdom where it's proper to write 101 as one hundred and one, there is no number from 1 to 999 that includes the letter "a" in its word form. One, two, three, four, five, six… twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty. You can keep going, but you won't find the first letter of the alphabet until you hit one thousAnd.
One hundred and one.
Er...One hundred and two?
Re-read it. The word and gives you an A. In the UK we use and (EG one hundred and) but say, in the US, they say 'one oh one' 'one oh two' etc etc
Are you sure 101 isn't written one hundred and one in English speaking countries outside the UK other than the USA?

MiseryStreak

2,929 posts

206 months

Saturday 21st March 2020
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Yeah I know, I was being a dick. It is a good useless fact.

Here’s another, all of the living things on Earth weigh 550,000,000,000 tonnes, all of the humans weigh just 60,000,000 tonnes.

Arthropoda (insects) on their own outweigh us humans 17 times.



https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/5/29/1...


Higgs boson

1,091 posts

152 months

Saturday 21st March 2020
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glenrobbo said:
Pothole said:
skinny said:
There are around 10 lightening strikes on the earth every second
It'll weigh nothing at all soon!
yes Exactly what I was thinking.
biggrin

Fermit and Sexy Sarah

12,787 posts

99 months

Saturday 21st March 2020
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Riley Blue said:
Are you sure 101 isn't written one hundred and one in English speaking countries outside the UK other than the USA?
The 'fact' was told by an American friend, so no, I can't be 100%.

The internet's thoughts - https://www.quora.com/What-are-all-the-numbers-fro...

Edited by Fermit and Sexy Sarah on Saturday 21st March 20:51

Riley Blue

20,915 posts

225 months

Saturday 21st March 2020
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Fermit and Sexy Sarah said:
Riley Blue said:
Are you sure 101 isn't written one hundred and one in English speaking countries outside the UK other than the USA?
The 'fact' was told by an American friend, so no, I can't be 100%.
Go across the Channel and twenty one is written vingt et un wink