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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,294 ✭✭✭thee glitz


    116 years in the 100 Years' War


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,231 ✭✭✭Deadzone


    117 - All GM Certified Used Vehicles must undergo a rigorous 117-Point inspection process.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 654 ✭✭✭sillyputty


    118- The number you would dial for the fire brigade in Switzerland


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 277 ✭✭Gadjodilo


    119 - the length in kms of stage 8 of the Paris-Nice cycling race 2009.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,231 ✭✭✭Deadzone


    120 - 120 is a film format for stills, introduced by Kodak in the early 1900's


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,459 ✭✭✭Blisterman


    121 - A defunct mobile phone operator in the UK.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 33,244 CMod ✭✭✭✭ShamoBuc


    122 years ago was 1887


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,065 ✭✭✭✭Malice


    123 - Big Bird lives at 123 Sesame Street.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,231 ✭✭✭Deadzone


    124 - The Fiat 124


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,793 ✭✭✭✭Hagar


    125 = 5 cubed

    126 = Another Fiat, the Bambino

    127 = Another Fiat

    128 = Another Fiat, sporty model


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 654 ✭✭✭sillyputty


    129: #LZ 129 Hindenburg was a zeppelin which went on fire while landing in May, 1937.
    13 passengers and 22 crew died as well as one person on the ground


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,231 ✭✭✭Deadzone


    130 - The C-130 Hercules is a four-engine turboprop aircraft and the workhorse of the U.S. military services.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,793 ✭✭✭✭Hagar


    131 - Yet another Fiat - The Mirafiori or Supermirafiori


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,649 ✭✭✭Catari Jaguar


    132 - Chinese scientist Zhang Heng invents the first seismometer


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 654 ✭✭✭sillyputty


    133: Channel 133 on Sky Digital is G.O.L.D +1


  • Registered Users Posts: 41 Anduril


    134: Periodic Comet 134 is known as Kowal-Vavrova.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 654 ✭✭✭sillyputty


    135: This years Kentucky Derby will be the 135th


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,784 ✭✭✭eddhorse


    135 In astrology, when two planets are 135 degrees apart, they are in an astrological aspect called a sesquiquadrate


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 277 ✭✭Gadjodilo


    136 - In degrees Fahrenheit, the highest temperature ever recorded on earth. It was at Al 'Aziziyah in Libya in September, 1922.

    That's 57.77 degrees Celsius to us Europeans.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,231 ✭✭✭Deadzone


    137 - The sum of Rosie's measurements (42-39-56) equals 137 in the AC/DC track "Whole Lotta Rosie".


  • Registered Users Posts: 41 Anduril


    137: Apparently 137 is a big deal to particle physicists, but I couldn't understand the article. Something to do with the "fine-structure constant".


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,231 ✭✭✭Deadzone


    138 - Taken 138 years ago, this is often claimed to be the earliest picture of a UFO, this picture was taken from the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire, in 1870.

    ufo-pictures-01.jpg


  • Registered Users Posts: 202 ✭✭robobobo


    Ceaser of Rome got married in the year 139


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,065 ✭✭✭✭Malice


    140 - In the Bible, Job lived to be 140 years old.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 654 ✭✭✭sillyputty


    141: There were about 141 participants (90 Indians and 51 pilgrims) at the First Thanksgiving


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    142- Wally Moon Career Home Run Total


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 654 ✭✭✭sillyputty


    143: Secret Code for I love You
    One letter in I,
    Four in Love,
    and three in You


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,382 ✭✭✭✭rainbowtrout


    144 = a gross


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 277 ✭✭Gadjodilo


    145 - in millions, the amount awarded last month by the US Supreme Court to the widow of a longtime smoker who died of lung cancer.

    Who's paying up? Philip Morris PLC :-).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,382 ✭✭✭✭rainbowtrout


    Alpha Romeo - 146 & 147


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 277 ✭✭Gadjodilo


    Can't let this one go!

    147 - the highest score obtainable in a snooker frame


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,065 ✭✭✭✭Malice


    148 - The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air ran on NBC from 1990 to 1966 with 148 episodes.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 654 ✭✭✭sillyputty


    149: British Airways Flight 149 between London and Kuala Lumpur was captured by Iraqi forces on August 1, 1990


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 277 ✭✭Gadjodilo


    150 - the age of the Irish Times this year.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,065 ✭✭✭✭Malice


    151 - Polish band Kult have a song called Psalm 151.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 654 ✭✭✭sillyputty


    152: NY152 AOL e-mail account use by Tom Hank's character in the movie You've Got Mail


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,239 ✭✭✭KittyeeTrix


    Swaziland ranks #153 in the list of the world's population


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,382 ✭✭✭✭rainbowtrout


    Never Gonna Give You Up has been viewed 154 million times on you tube due to rick rolling :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,239 ✭✭✭KittyeeTrix


    155 is the number of people who were still lucky to be alive following a planes crash into the Hudson River earlier this year


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,382 ✭✭✭✭rainbowtrout


    156 Hells Angels were arrested today in Canada in a raid called Operation Shark


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,002 ✭✭✭f1dan


    157 - Third highest possible checkout in darts


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,239 ✭✭✭KittyeeTrix


    Fact 158 of the following useless facts states that
    http://www.webcomicsinc.com/profiles/blogs/301-useless-facts

    158. Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,065 ✭✭✭✭Malice


    159 - The American state of Georgia has 159 counties.


  • Registered Users Posts: 501 ✭✭✭Helmet


    good news for once

    160 jobs are to be created in Carlow by the pharmaceutical facility, Merck Sharp & Dohme


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,065 ✭✭✭✭Malice


    161 - The Kay K-161 ThinTwin is a make of guitar.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 654 ✭✭✭sillyputty


    162: According to 2000 US census the town of Middleburg, North Carolina has population of 162


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 277 ✭✭Gadjodilo


    163 - beer consumption in litres per person in the Czech Republic in 2005


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,065 ✭✭✭✭Malice


    164 - In Scrabble, the board contains 164 plain squares i.e. ones that don't have word or letter multipliers.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,231 ✭✭✭Deadzone


    165 - The Porta Potti 165 toilet features a high capacity waste holding tank, as well as having a natural seating height. The integrated pour-out spout makes it easy and convenient to use.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,065 ✭✭✭✭Malice


    166 - Malcolm X was assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom near 166th Street and Broadway in New York City on February 21, 1965.


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