Thread O Trivial Shit You Might Not Know

[E-P-K]

No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times

[johnstrac]

The Sun ain't gonna shine anymore !

Just heard it on the radio.

[Robbie Winters]

In Dundee many of the breadwinners of the household are woman which leads to the menfolk being tarred with the nickname of "kettle boilers".

[Bluto10]

The Sun ain't gonna shine anymore !

Just heard it on the radio.

 

brilliant tune.

 

one of engelburts finest.

[Bluto10]

In Dundee many of the breadwinners of the household are woman which leads to the menfolk being tarred with the nickname of "kettle boilers".

 

in dundee many of the breadwinners of the household are woman who can earn up to as much as 40k per annum on benefit.

[Pash]

Big Ben is actually the name of the bell inside the tower, the tower itself is called Clock Tower.

[The Boofon]

one of the main ingredients of jam is the humble turnip.

 

 

Especially turnip jam.

[tup]

I am Derek Adams' cousin.

[The Boofon]

I am Derek Adams' cousin.

 

 

Glass is not a solid object. It's a liquid. That's why very old windows are thicker at the bottom than the top.

[tup]

Peter Shilton used to hang from his upstairs landing for long spells as a 14 year old, with weights tied to his feet, to make him a better goalkeeper.

 

Hence the gorilla-esque arms.

 

It worked.

[paddy]

Beer mats are made up of single sheets of paper pressed together. No adhesive, just pure compression.

[Robbie Winters]

A team of Ukrainian prisoners of war were forced to play football against occupying Nazi soldiers in a series of matches during WWII. The Ukrainians triumphed in all which obviously the Germans did not take kindly to and reinterned them.

This gave birth to storyline for the famous football movie "Escape To Victory"

[Karl Fletcher]

Rupert Murdoch's Mum is still alive.

 

And there is less time between Stegosaurus' and humans exsisting than there is between the T-Rex and Stegosaurus exsisting.

 

Always thought that one was a bit mental.

[Bluto10]

A team of Ukrainian prisoners of war were forced to play football against occupying Nazi soldiers in a series of matches during WWII. The Ukrainians triumphed in all which obviously the Germans did not take kindly to and reinterned them.

This gave birth to storyline for the famous football movie "Escape To Victory"

 

i know.

 

i have the book on that from about a decade ago.

 

Its called ''Dynamo''

[Nespa]

A monkey's skull wrapped in leather and paper was used as the ball in the very first World's Cup in Uruguay.

[Nespa]

A chicken with red earlobes will produce brown eggs, and a chicken with white earlobes will produce white eggs

[tightbreeks]

when i drink coffee, my slash smells of sugar puffs!

[robbojunior]

Denmark has the largest population of female pipe smokers in Europe.

[spamspamspam]

Glass is not a solid object. It's a liquid. That's why very old windows are thicker at the bottom than the top.

 

Glass is neither solid or liquid. It can be argued that glass is a liquid in a viscus state but the molecules done quite fit that model either as the molecules are disordered but are rigidly bound unlike a viscus liquid where liquid molecules, including those in a heavy viscus state are disordered and are not rigidly bound. The best description of glass molecules would be that they are held in an amorphous solid.

 

Old windows are thinker at the bottom due to poor manufacturing techniques. In Mediaeval times panes of glass were often made by the Crown glass process. A lump of molten glass was rolled, blown, expanded, flattened and finally spun into a disc before being cut into panes. The sheets were thicker towards the edge of the disc and were usually installed with the heavier side at the bottom

[spamspamspam]

when i drink coffee, my slash smells of sugar puffs!

 

Whenyou eat sugar puffs does it taste of coffee?

[Broughty Ferry Arab]

When Peter Benchley couldn't think of a title for 'Jaws', his father Nathaniel suggested "What's That Noshing On My Leg?"

[amancalledbuck]

Trees are actually petrified elves.

[The Boofon]

What colour are oranges?

 

In many countries oranges are green, even when ripe and are sold that way in shops.

 

In countries where it's always hot the chlorophyll in oranges is not destroyed and oranges stay green. In Honduras for example they are eaten green and artificially oranged with ethelyne gas to break down the chlorophyll to turn them orange for export.

[The Boofon]

"Buffalo buffalo that buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" is a sentence that makes perfect sense.

 

The sentence's intended meaning becomes clearer when it's understood that it uses the city of Buffalo, New York and the somewhat-uncommon verb "to buffalo" (meaning "to bully or intimidate"), and when the punctuation and grammar is expanded so that the sentence reads as follows: "Buffalo buffalo that buffalo Buffalo buffalo, buffalo Buffalo buffalo." The meaning becomes even clearer when synonyms are used: "Buffalo-origin bison that other Buffalo bison intimidate, themselves bully Buffalo bison."