Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:A Pineapple is over neither the Apple or Pine Genus. It is in fact a Berry!

the pineapple got its name from the Anglo-European settlers who were shown this fruit, who said that it looked like a pine cone, but tasted rather like an apple.

Elnicko5 wrote:
There are no (actual) words which rhyme with orange, month, silver, or purple.

Purple rhymes with "hurple/hirple" archaic from Scottish meaning to hobble or limp. Curple was also used by one author....

There are half rhymes to orange and silver lozenge/challenge/scavenge/orange salver/silver. There are also multiple word rhymes (door hinge/orange) and chilver (a female lamb).

Also, if you want to see someone get way to excited about all this: http://www.billcasselman.com/wording_room/no_rhyme_for_orange.htm

For more interesting trivia :http://www.flatrock.org.nz/topics/odds_and_oddities/100_facts.htm

The Almond, Pecan, and Walnut are not in fact nuts. They are drupes.

Ozymandias, King of Kings

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, the classical composer who did "The flight of the bomblebee" had a neurologic problem that allow him to "see music".

The US Marines do not wear unit patches or U.S. flags on any of their uniforms, nor name tags on their service and formal uniforms.

A dress coat, sometimes called a swallow-tail or claw-hammer coat, is the coat that has, since the 1850s, come to be worn only in the evening by men as part of the white tie dress code.

The French Foreign Legion is open to French citizens, who amount to 24% of recruits.

Yellowstone National Park, was established by the U.S. Congress as a national park on March 1, 1872.

The Sun is currently traveling through the Local Interstellar Cloud in the low-density Local Bubble zone of diffuse high-temperature gas, in the inner rim of the Orion Arm of the Milky Way Galaxy, between the larger Perseus and Sagittarius arms of the galaxy.

Virginia is the birthplace of eight U.S. presidents.

Mars has approximately half the radius of Earth, has about 15% of Earth's volume and 11% of the mass.

The Black Sea has an area of 436,400 km² (168,495 sq mi), and a maximum depth of 2,212 m (7,257 ft).

Originally, it was planned that the figures on Mount Rushmore would be carved from head to waist, but insufficient funding forced the carving to end with the faces and the basic outline of Washington's coat.

Uncanny X-Men remains Marvel Comics' only Silver Age title to retain its consecutive issue numbering since its conception.

Lake Baikal in Siberia is the oldest, deepest lake of the world and also the biggest fresh water repository. It contains more water than all the Great Lakes together.

M.

The SS Great Eastern was the largest ship ever built at the time of her 1858 launch, and had the capacity to carry 4,000 passengers around the world without refueling.
Her length of 211 metres (690 ft) was only surpassed in 1899, by the 705 feet (215 m) RMS Oceanic.

Bell Rock Lighthouse (built 1807-1810) is the world's oldest surviving sea-washed lighthouse and masonry work on which the light house rests was constructed to such a high standard that it has not been replaced or adapted in over 200 years.

The first person to jump from the Brooklyn bridge was Robert E. Odlum on May 19, 1885.
He survived the pre-announced jump, but died shortly thereafter from internal injuries.

The London Sewer system built between 1859 and 1865 required 318 million bricks, 880,000 cubic yards (670,000 m³) of concrete and mortar, and excavation of over 3.5 million tonnes of earth.

By the time the Panama Canal was completed, a total of 27,500 workmen are estimated to have died in the French and American efforts to build it.

Warren Gamaliel Harding, the twenty-ninth President of the United States, received 60% of the national vote and 404 electoral votes in the 1920 presidential election.

It takes aprrox 90 minutes to be asleep completely

Benedict Arnold was not a traitor.

Paul Revere was not the only rider on the mid-night ride. He was one of three.(Sounds borgish, Think more americans would learn their history if seven of nine were in it?)

Texas was illeagally annexed into the US through a rigged election.(Election fraud???? In the US????NAHHH!!!)

Skunk Anansie are one of the greatest bands the world has ever known, and yet are often sidelined by the more 'modern' tripe such as Fall Out Boy and other assorted drivel.

Selling Jesus was ace. I once got really caned with their ex-guitarist on Brighton seafront, shortly befor horrifically offending Jeremy Beadle's neice.


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During the winter of 1609-1610 colonists in Jamestown Virginia resorted to cannabalism to survive.

On the 24th of january 1961 the USAF accidentally dropped two MARK 39 thermonuclear bombs.......on North Carolina.
Parts, including radioactive material, remain "lost" till this day.

linky

"Blimp"is an onimonapea, named after the sound made when flicking a fully inflated dirigible.

focusedfire wrote:Benedict Arnold was not a traitor.

Incorrect.
If one assumes that all of the American revolutionaries were traitors, then Benedict Arnold was too, since he participated in numorous battles on the colonial side. His heroism at the Battle of Saratoga led to the French involvement in the war.

His actions after being given command of West Point are clearly traitorous (offering it for over twenty thousand pounds and a commission).

Arnold's actions fit every reasonable description of a traitor, even though he was never legally convicted as one.

Olympus Mons, on mars, is the largest volcano in the solar system and is three times higher than Mount Everest

Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson was a deacon in the Presbyterian church.

Although belonging to the Bronze Age, the Hittites were forerunners of the Iron Age, developing the manufacture of iron artifacts from as early as the 14th century BC.

The reason that the british drive on the left hand side of the road goes back to the 18th century. The reason was so that passing horseman could easily swipe there swords at each other as most people at this time were right handed.

captain.gordino wrote:A special kind of flashbulb used exclusively by Canon makes the flash of their cameras fatal to lizards.

Um... really? Wow.

You can fit 3 Earths inside Jupiter´s Great Red Spot.

M.

focusedfire wrote:Paul Revere was not the only rider on the mid-night ride. He was one of three.(Sounds borgish, Think more americans would learn their history if seven of nine were in it?)

Seven of Nine is part of American history.

In 2004 Barak Obama was running for the Illinois Senate seat against Jack Ryan. However, during the campaign it was ruled that his formerly sealed divorce records should be released to the public, and these records contained allegations that his former wife, Jeri Ryan or Seven of Nine, had been pressured into having sex in public. Ryan withdrew from the campaign, and Obama romped it in, and this became his staging ground to end up the first black president of the US.

A Polar Bear's Skin is actually Black.

There is an ant in Brazil that has a gland which causes the ant to explode like a bomb, spraying a sticky toxic goo on everybody nearby.

In Baltimore, Maryland, it is not legal to take a lion to the movies.

Among the Abipone people of Paraguay, individuals who abstain from alcohol are thought to be "cowardly, degenerate and stupid."

A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a carpenter in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions. After weeks of needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an axe leaving her mentally slowed.

The cheetah is the only cat in the world that can't retract its claws.

The turkey was named for what was wrongly thought to be its country of origin.

The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.

If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

Elephants CAN"T jump, every other mammal can.
Edit I'm just dumb at typing

Noisy_Marine wrote:

captain.gordino wrote:A special kind of flashbulb used exclusively by Canon makes the flash of their cameras fatal to lizards.

Um... really? Wow.

I demand evidence! Or at least a source!

Phoenix is the only state capital with a population of more than a million people.

Kellogg's was founded as the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company on February 19, 1906, by Will Keith Kellogg.

And Corn Flakes were originally intended to lower peoples libidos, and Kellogg was rather keen on that sort of thing. The weirdo.

Ghost in the Darkness wrote:Elephants can jump, every other mammal can.

What about white men?

in America 4 people have legaly changed theire name to santa claus

The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
A gigantic nuclear furnace
where hydrogen is built into helium
at a temperature of millions of degrees

Yo ho it's hot
The Sun is not
a place where we could live
but here on earth there'd be no life without the light it gives

We need it's light
We need it's heat
We need it's energy

Without the sun
Without a doubt
There'd be no you and me

The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
A gigantic nuclear furnace
where hydrogen is built into helium
at a temperature of millions of degrees

The sun is hot

It is so hot that everything on it is a gas
Iron
Copper
Aluminum
and many others

The sun is large

If the sun were hollow a million earths could fit inside
and yet the sun is only a middle-sized star

The sun is far away

About 93 million miles away!
and that's why it looks so small

And even when it's out of sight
the sun shines night and day

The sun gives heat
The sun gives light
The sunlight that we see
The sunlight comes from our own sun's atomic energy

Scientists have found that the sun is a huge atom-smashing machine
The heat and light of the sun come from the nuclear reactions of
Hydrogen
Carbon
Nitrogen
and Helium

The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
A gigantic nuclear furnace
where hydrogen is built into helium
at a temperature of millions of degrees

--They Might Be Giants--

Comparing mass ratio, we human beings kick out more energy than the sun (true that).

Losing 80% of your bodyheat through the head is a modern myth, based on flawed studies. When the body is uncovered, heat is exchanged even across the body. However, when wrapped up, it appears more heat is being lost through the head, as the parts of the body covered up have the signature 'muffled'

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:Comparing mass ratio, we human beings kick out more energy than the sun (true that).

Losing 80% of your bodyheat through the head is a modern myth, based on flawed studies. When the body is uncovered, heat is exchanged even across the body. However, when wrapped up, it appears more heat is being lost through the head, as the parts of the body covered up have the signature 'muffled'

So more naked research needs to be done?

No, just slightly less stacked research.

Dirty boy.

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:No, just slightly less stacked research.

Dirty boy.

Heh... stacked research.

Sign me up!

48 of the 50 U.S. states have a town or city named Rome in it.

all but one continent on the planet has a city/town called Rome.

Christmas Island has the greatest land area of any coral atoll in the world: about 322 square kilometres (124 sq mi).

The attachment of Mobile, Alabama to the United States was the only permanent exchange of territory during the War of 1812.

Whoopi Goldberg is one of only thirteen persons who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards.

United States Military Academy (West Point) was first occupied in on 20 Jan 1778, making it the oldest continuously occupied military post in the United States.

Cadbury is the world's largest confectionery manufacturer.

In the USA there are 155 national forests containing almost 190,000,000 acres (297,000 mi² - 769 000 km²) of land. These lands comprise 8.5 percent of the total land area of the United States, an area about the size of Texas.

This is my 18,000th post on dakka.

Waaagh_Gonads wrote:This is my 18,000th post on dakka.

thats .... quite interesting actually.
congrats

Once appointed, Justices of the US Supreme Court effectively have life tenure ,terminating only upon death, resignation, retirement, or conviction on impeachment.

The Victoria Cross has been awarded 1,356 times to 1,353 individual recipients.

New Zealand is part of Zealandia, a nearly submerged continent that sank after breaking away from Antarctica between 85 and 130 million years ago, and then from Australia 60-85 million years ago. 93% remains submerged beneath the Pacific Ocean.

Only two flowering plants can be found in Antartica, Deschampsia antarctica (Antarctic hair grass) and Colobanthus quitensis (Antarctic pearlwort), on the northern and western parts of the Antarctic Peninsula.

Voyager 1 is currently the farthest human-made object from Earth and is travelling at 17km/second.

It´s an unofficial custom for all ranks of the US Armed Forces to salute the recipient of the Medal of Honor regardless of rank.

Also recipients are greeted and saluted before non recipients.

M.

A two-layer Blu-ray Disc can store 50 gigabytes, almost six times the capacity of a two-layer DVD, or ten and a half times that of a single-layer DVD.

Ötzi the Iceman, dating from the fourth to fifth millennium BCE, was found in the Ötz valley in the Alps and had approximately 57 carbon tattoos consisting of simple dots and lines on his lower spine, behind his left knee, and on his right ankle.

MacGyver ran for seven seasons from September 29, 1985 to January 13, 1992

Cranberries are the only fruit/berry that get less sweet as they ripen.

Miguelsan wrote:It´s an unofficial custom for all ranks of the US Armed Forces to salute the recipient of the Medal of Honor regardless of rank.

Also recipients are greeted and saluted before non recipients.

M.

actually that is an official custom.

the F4U series of aircraft (Corsairs) had the longest run of active fighter service seeing action as late as the vietnam era (it was flown by south american nations in combat into the late 60s)

The first country to give women the vote in national elections was the Isle of Man in 1881.

Sadcore is a subgenre term used by music journalists to describe examples of alternative rock characterised by bleak lyrics, downbeat melodies and slower tempos.

The first $9,000 of military pay of enlisted personnel is exempt from Arkansas State Income Tax.

Dwight D. Eisenhower was the last President born in the 19th century.

One metric ton of pitchblende (a radioactive, uranium-rich mineral and ore )yields 0.0001 grams of radium

The IJN Musashi sunk in 1944 after receiving 9 torpedo hits starboard, 10 torpedo hits port, 17 bomb hits and 18 near misses according to US Navy sources (the IJN give a different number 11 torpedo, 10 bomb hits and 6 near misses)

M.

The IJN Yamato despite being (along with her sister IJN Mushashi) the mightest battleship of WWII never sunk a ship.

M.

The State of Franklin was an autonomous, secessionist United States territory created, not long after the end of the American Revolution, from territory that later was ceded by North Carolina to the federal government.

The adult human brain weighs on average about 3 lb (1.5 kg).

Theodore Roosevelt who became president at the age of 42 remains the youngest president at time of taking office.

During the dual charges up Kettle Hill and San Juan Hill on July 1, 1898 in the Spanish-American War, of all the Rough Riders, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt was the only one with a horse.

One of the "heroes" of the infamous "Black Hawk Down" is a convicted child molester.

In the film the character of John "Stebby" Stebbins had his name changed to Ranger Danny Grimes. He was played by Ewan McGregor. The military asked the author to change the name in the screenplay as it was felt it might be embarassing as Stebbins was sentenced to 30 yeras in the year 2000 for the rape and sodomy of a child under 12.

the 3d ACR is the last heavy cavalry unit in active combat duty in the army.

The first stamp, the Penny Black, put on sale on 1 May, was valid from 6 May, 1840.

Benjamin Franklin invented the flexible urinary catheter.

Smallpox is the only human infectious disease to have been completely eradicated, from humans.

The U.S. military receives $711 billion per year in funding, constituting approximately 50% of military expenditure in the world.

BBC Radio 2 is the most popular radio station in the UK.

The pillory was formally abolished as a form of punishment in England and Wales in 1837 but the stocks remained in use, albeit extremely infrequently, until 1872.

Coffee was first consumed in the 9th century, when it was discovered in the highlands of Ethiopia.

Oregon ranks 4th nationally in craft breweries per capita.

Westminster Abbey is a Royal Peculiar, as it is a place of worship that falls directly under the jurisdiction of the British monarch, rather than a diocese.

Texas the highest percentage of people with a religious affiliation in the United States.

Karl Marx's is buried at Highgate Cemetery London

With the exception of 1976, there have been more births than deaths every year since 1901 in England.

Bell-bottoms are trousers that become wider from the knees downwards.

Waaagh_Gonads wrote:Oregon ranks 4th nationally in craft breweries per capita.

and, as has been posted earlier has more of those breweries per capita than Germany gotta love how my home state drinks

of course, we, along with Washington (the state) has among the highest suicide rates in the country.

reds8n wrote: One of the "heroes" of the infamous "Black Hawk Down" is a convicted child molester.

In the film the character of John "Stebby" Stebbins had his name changed to Ranger Danny Grimes. He was played by Ewan McGregor. The military asked the author to change the name in the screenplay as it was felt it might be embarassing as Stebbins was sentenced to 30 yeras in the year 2000 for the rape and sodomy of a child under 12.

lovely.

Both Armadas expeditions, The Spanish Armada of 1588 and the English Counter Armada of 1589, ended up in disaster for the attacking country.

M.

Goats have horizontal slit-shaped pupils, an adaptation which increases peripheral depth perception.

The Thylacine was one of only two marsupials to have a pouch in both sexes (the other is the Water Opossum).

Cinderella Castle at Disneyworld it’s 189 feet tall, which is more than twice the size of Sleeping Beauty Castle at Disneyland (77 feet tall)

M.

Yummy!

Technically, green peppers, zucchini, cucumbers, and tomatos are fruits. But per the 1893 case Nix vs. Hedden, the US Supreme Court decided tomatos were veggetables and therefore subject to the vegetable tariff. The Supreme Court’s reasoning was that tomatos have to be vegetables because they’re usually served with dinner, not dessert.

M.

Lord Bingo wrote:The reason that the british drive on the left hand side of the road goes back to the 18th century. The reason was so that passing horseman could easily swipe there swords at each other as most people at this time were right handed.

If my history serves me correctly, the majority of traffic across the world was on the right side of the road. The reason being nobles on horse would clash swords (commonly on the left hand side of their body) if they were to travel on the right hand side of the road. When Napolean took control of France, due to his hate for the nobles, he declared that France switch to travel on the other side of the road. As he invaded the rest of Europe, he brought this practice into other countries he conqured (although this story isn't 100% confirmed).

The shift happened in America due to larger carts. The carts hand no driver seat so a guy would sit on the left horses to make sure they would keep clear of oncomming wagons, forcing them to travel on the right.

Other growing economies bought in cars from Europe and America which were already right hand drive making the natural progression for their country to drive on the right.

Macau, based on revenues and profits, is the Gambling Capitol of the World.

The russian word Gulag did not originally mean prison as everybody thinks, it´s the acronym of The Chief Administration of Corrective Labor Camps and Colonies the government agency that managed the camps.

M.

Infamous British Comedian extrodanaire, Spike Milligan has a Gaelic inscribed Gravestone, which when translated is intended to read 'I told you I was ill'

It would have been in English, but the local Parish objected. The reason I say it is intended to read thusly, is that no one in his family can read write or speak Gaelic, so it was done largely on trust!

On average annually work kills more people than war.

Before becoming Pope Pius II, AEneas Sylvius Piccolomini was a poet, scholar, rake and an author. His most successful work was in fact an eroctic or bawdy tale.

In 1996 The House of Representatives Permanent Select Commitee on Intelligence released a report entitled "Ic21: The Intelligence Community in the 21st century". Listed in part of this report is the fact that the CIA routinely commits over 100,000 serious crimes each year that " not only risk political embarassment to the US but also endanger the freedom if not lives of the participating foreign nationals and, more than occassionally, of the clandestine officer himself".

Under phylogenetic taxonomy, dinosaurs are usually defined as all descendants of the most recent common ancestor of Triceratops and modern birds.

The euro is the official currency of sixteen member states of the European Union.

The federation of Australia was the process by which the six separate British self-governing colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia formed a federation when the Constitution of Australia came into force, on 1 January 1901.

Caffè espresso is a concentrated coffee beverage brewed by forcing steam or hot water under pressure through finely ground coffee.

Brazil was a colony of Portugal from the landing of Pedro Álvares Cabral in 1500 until its independence in 1822.

Waaagh_Gonads is SkyNet and when he reaches 50,000 posts sometime in late 2012, its zero hour.

Just found this reading the newspaper

"It found (a tech support company) that its helplines were busiest between 11.40am and 11.56am on Christmas morning, with the most calls logged at around 11.48am"

M.

The Todaiji Temple in Nara is the biggest wooden building in the world and houses the biggest bronze statue of Buda.

M.

Facetious is the shortest word in the English language to contain all the vowels in order.

There are two varieties of Latin: Classical Latin, the literary dialect used in poetry and prose, and Vulgar Latin, the form of the language spoken by ordinary people.

Sophomore is a term used to describe a second effort, instance, or release. Its most common usage is in the United States as a noun meaning a student in the second year of study.

With inflation, the cost of the Louisiana purchase would have been equal to $278 million in 2007.

Coors Light, is Coors' top selling brand, and the third-best selling beer in the United States

As of December 2008 Missouri has the second-lowest cigarette excise taxes in the United States (behind only South Carolina) at 17 cents per pack.

The champions RPG games is currently owned by cryptic studios

Cryptic studios is making a Champions online game which will likely kill city of heroes

The first patriotic comic book character was the shield form MLJ comics AKA Archie comics and not Captain America from Marvel

The Act of Supremacy November 1534 (26 Hen. 8, c. 1) was an Act of the Parliament of England under King Henry VIII declaring that he was 'the only supreme head on earth of the Church in England' and that the English crown shall enjoy "all honours, dignities, preeminences, jurisdictions, privileges, authorities, immunities, profits, and commodities to the said dignity."

The Philippines constitutes an archipelago of 7,107 islands.

The Reconquista came to an end on January 2, 1492 with the conquest of Granada.

Acording to Arabic sources the last king of Hispania Roderic lost the battle of Guadalete when his 100.000 men strong army facing 12.000 muslims decided to shettle some issues about whom killed the father of who instead of fighting the muslim raiders.
That battle allowed the Moors to conquer almost the entire country.

M.

Waaagh_Gonads wrote:There are two varieties of Latin: Classical Latin, the literary dialect used in poetry and prose, and Vulgar Latin, the form of the language spoken by ordinary people.

according to the Latin class i took in school, the two varieties of Latin, are Ecclesiastic Latin, and Classical... the major differences being the pronunciation of certain letters...(ie. the J in classical is silent, whereas in ecclesiastic it has a hard J sound...so in classical julius would be pronounced Yulius)

The following :

Gibraltar Steamship Company
Air America
Brewster Jennings and Associates
Aroundworld Shipping Inc.
Consultants International Inc.
Delex International Corporations
Egyptian-American Transport Service Company
Inter-Technology Inc.
Sciebtific Communications Inc.
Systems Services International

Are all former (? ) C.I.A. front companies.

Kilkrazy wrote:The Italian language only contains about 100,000 words.

here our some of there words
and 50,000 thousand of them translate into this "love,love,love"

Over 1% of the American population is in prison.

'Gay' is the most commonly used insult in British schools.

Carrots used to be purple.

English is the language of space.

There are 109 journeys between London tube stations that are quicker to walk.

1.3 million unopened yoghurts are thrown away each day in Britain.

The royal family costs each British person 66p per year.

Pears sink while apples float.

Liz Taylor has broken her back 5 times.

Since 1960 8,000 people have managed to eat a 72oz steak, with all the trimmings, in under an hour.

Baseball was played in Surrey, England, in 1755.

The QE2 does 49 feet to the gallon.

The first International Cricket match was played between the US and Canada.

The first Europeans known to have reached New Zealand were Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman and his crew in 1642.

The Volkswagen Type 1 car was produced by Volkswagen from 1938 until 2003.

A diesel engine burns less fuel than a gasoline engine performing the same work, due to the engine's high efficiency and diesel fuel's higher energy density than gasoline.

The US Army and NATO use only diesel fuel engines and turbines because of fire hazard.

AT its territorial peak, the Roman Empire controlled approximately 5,900,000 km² (2,300,000 sq mi) of land surface.

The Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman discovered new zealand and tasmania (which is named after him) but totally missed Australia.

The BBC employs 28,500 people in the UK alone.

When you inhale fart, youre actually inhaling tiny molecules of faeces, & they reckon the average person inhales enough in a lifetime to have ingested three whole poos.

Wyoming is only one of three states (along with Colorado and Utah) to have only lines of latitude and longitude for boundaries and that have no natural borders.

Mino Monta is the most viewed TV personality on a per hour basis. This japanese gentleman appears more than 25 hours on japanese TV shows a week.

M.

Wyoming is the fastest depopulating state in the United States, if you've been through there, you know exactly why too.

The Grumman F-14 Tomcat entered service in 1974 with the U.S. Navy, and was retired from the active U.S. Navy fleet on 22 September 2006.

The term "boat" refers to small craft limited in their use by size and usually not capable of making independent voyages of any length on the high seas. Submarines were originally called boats due to their small size but the name has stuck despite their growth in size and capabilities.

There are 187,888 lakes in Finland, of which 60,000 are large

Sixty known moons orbit Saturn.

Titan, Saturn's largest and the Solar System's second largest moon (after Jupiter's Ganymede), is larger than the planet Mercury and is the only moon in the Solar System to possess a significant atmosphere.

Ten Animals I slam in a Net

Ah, Satan Sees Natasha

Dr Awkward


are all palindromes.

your ear will be damaged more by loud distorted sounds than loud clean sounds.

i.e. a distorted guitar at 109 decibels would damage your hearing more than the recording of a string section being played at 109 decibels.

Also, tonal sounds cause less damage than non tonal sounds, so a man who was working in a drop-forging plant where the drop hammer was going at 109 decibels would be damaged more than the person listening to the guitar.

The drums in the intro of the bullet for my valentine song 'scream aim fire' have flat out 16th notes played on double bass.

this is programmed MIDI & the drummer cant really play it. he never does it live.

The Guinness World Records removed the fattest pet record on animal cruelty grounds.

M.

Only 3 of the four funnels on the Titanic were functional. The fourth was actually a vent added to make the ship more impressive.

M.

Waaagh_Gonads wrote:The term "boat" refers to small craft limited in their use by size and usually not capable of making independent voyages of any length on the high seas. Submarines were originally called boats due to their small size but the name has stuck despite their growth in size and capabilities.

A similar but different "fact" appeared on the original QI TV show. There is no definitive universal definition of a boat or ship according to a friend of mine who is currently doing a PhD in Naval Engineering.

The longest word that can be typed on the top line of a qwerty keyboard (the kind first used on typewriters) is typewriter.

The vast majority of English law is irrelevant, as it has been superceded by later laws, but never repealed.

The most famous example is the 12th century right to kill a scotsman with a bow within the city walls of York. Whilst this law is still extant on the statute book, doing so would still result in a successful prosecution for murder under laws which originated in the 17th century.

Many old English laws stated that the perpetrator must be charged within a year and a day of committing the offence.

These laws were not formally ammended/repealed until 1996.

The first baseball world series was an international tournament and was staged in Derby, UK.

Until their recent move to Pride Park, Derby County Football Club played their home fixtures at the 'Baseball Ground', built on the site of the competition.

Murcielago (bat) is the only spanish word to contain al the vowels.

M.