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[Fermit and Sexy Sarah]

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]

The flock of Crows is not and the Rook on its own is not.

[DickyC]

The tiny glass balls used to make traffic signs reflective are called Ballotini Beads.

[Doofus]

The brother of Japan's tallest man invented the digital photo frame.

[_Rich_]

Hugo Boss produced and supplied Nazi uniforms.

[Hugo a Gogo]

j44esd said:

The world's largest tyre manufacturer, by volume, is Lego.

also perhaps the world's smallest tyre manufacturer, by volume...

[Pericoloso]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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.

[Condi]

_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.

[Fermit and Sexy Sarah]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

glenrobbo said:

Pothole said:

skinny said:

There are around 10 lightening strikes on the earth every second

It'll weigh nothing at all soon!

Exactly what I was thinking.

[Fermit and Sexy Sarah]

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]

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