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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.

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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.

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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.