I bet you didn't know that this thread would have a part 2

BonnieSituation

joujoujou wrote: »

Interesting postal code in Delta, BC, Canada:

https://604now.com/neighbourhood-delta-awkward-postal-code/

V4G 1NA

And Santa's is H0H 0HO

Badly Drunk Boy

BonnieSituation wrote: »

And Santa's is H0H 0HO

And in the UK, it's XM4 5HQ.

sammyjo90

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

The best shuttlecocks are made from the left wing of a goose.

Someone's a bake off fan

ohnonotgmail

sammyjo90 wrote: »

Someone's a bake off fan

well actually he said that shuttlecocks are ONLY made from the left wing of a goose which is not correct

bonzodog2

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

well actually he said that shuttlecocks are ONLY made from the left wing of a goose which is not correct

I think there may a bit of cork involved?

ohnonotgmail

bonzodog2 wrote: »

I think there may a bit of cork involved?

referring to the feathers

sammyjo90

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

well actually he said that shuttlecocks are ONLY made from the left wing of a goose which is not correct

Peter is fallible so!
I will say you unknowingly wrecked my head by trying to figure out where I had heard this recently

KevRossi

The Euthanasia Coaster is a hypothetical steel roller coaster designed to kill its passengers.] it was designed by Lithuanian artist Julijonas Urbonas in 2010. Urbonas, who has worked at an amusement park, stated that the goal of his concept roller coaster is to take lives "with elegance and euphoria".

The coaster rises to a height of 510m, then drops at a speed of 360 km/h into 7 spirals. Each spiral is smaller than the previous to keep the 10g force constant. The 10g forces will kill almost everyone through prolonged cerebal hypoxia, or lack of oxygen to the brain, but the plan would be to run it a couple of times with everyone in it, to make sure. There would be an option to get out at the top if you changed your mind.

It was displayed at an exhibition in the Science Gallery on Pearse St. in 2011.
510m tall,
Total distance 7.5 Km,
Max force 10g
Max Speed 360 Km/h

This is a diagram of it.

Capt'n Midnight

retalivity

El Paso, TX is 50 miles closer to Los Angeles, than it is to the most eastern settlement in Texas, Orange TX.
Bit mad for me as I always assume Texas to be the middle of the US

Realt Dearg Sec

retalivity wrote: »

El Paso, TX is 50 miles closer to Los Angeles, than it is to the most eastern settlement in Texas, Orange TX.
Bit mad for me as I always assume Texas to be the middle of the US

And Orange is also almost 100 miles closer to Jacksonville on the East coast than it is to El Paso. Lived in Texas, near Dallas, the last few years, it never ceased to amaze me how big the place is, and how empty when you travel west through it. It's big enough that it has multiple climatic regions, and everything from dense forest to arid desert.

KevRossi

The M25 is London's orbital route. It is 188.3 km long. 3.3 km of this is in Greater London, the rest is outside it.

The only village in London which is outside the M25 is North Ockendon which has a population of about 600. The rest of London's 9 million people and a couple of million other live inside the M25.

Allinall

KevRossi wrote: »

The M25 is London's orbital route. It is 188.3 km long. 3.3 km of this is in Greater London, the rest is outside it.

The only village in London which is outside the M25 is North Ockendon which has a population of about 600. The rest of London's 9 million people and a couple of million other live inside the M25.

Apart from the 17.4% who live on it.

ohnonotgmail

Beer was illegal in Iceland until 1989. Wine and spirits were allowed.

joujoujou

The people of famous Austrian village recently decided they do not want to be famous anymore.

The world will never be the same again!

//crying

http://url.ie/1r1gj

barrymanilow

The Norse Vikings that claimed Greenland were wiped out by warfare and competition for resources by an Inuit people who moved in and cleared them out.

https://www.canadiangeographic.ca/article/reverse-colonialism-how-inuit-conquered-vikings

Capt'n Midnight

Mount Everest is officially 86cm higher.

But you knew that.



Khimlal Gautam lost a toe to bring you this information.

You may not have known that.

ohnonotgmail

is Everest not growing every year due to tectonic plates coming together?

Captain_Crash

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Mount Everest is officially 86cm higher.

When Everest was first discovered by westerners, it was believed to be the highest peak in the world but the expedition wasn’t allowed into Nepal or China to survey it, so studied it from the Nepal/India border.

They concluded its height to be exactly 29000ft, however knowing that such a round number would not be believed back in Great Britain, they added a couple of ft and came to 29002ft. Since then with more modern equipment we know it’s exact height, and again, after a shift in tectonic movement, it’s now even higher.

sbsquarepants

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Mount Everest is officially 86cm higher.
.

Higher than what?





In other Everest news (possible repeat) - Dinali (AKA Mount Mckinley in Alaska) is the worlds tallest as opposed to highest mountain @ almost 2km taller than Everest, it just has the misfortune to be standing at the bottom of a hole, whereas Everest starts on a high plateau.


In other words it cheats:D

lobbylad

sbsquarepants wrote: »

Higher than what?





In other Everest news (possible repeat) - Dinali (AKA Mount Mckinley in Alaska) is the worlds tallest as opposed to highest mountain @ almost 2km taller than Everest, it just has the misfortune to be standing at the bottom of a hole, whereas Everest starts on a high plateau.


In other words it cheats:D

Dinali is the tallest on land, Mauna Kea in Hawaii is the tallest when measured from the sea bed

cdeb

sbsquarepants wrote: »

Higher than what?

Higher than it was previously reported.

They measured it again and is has grown.

barrymanilow

Maybe you know this but it was news to me at the time ;

After Ireland gained independence , rather than rip out the Red royal Mail post boxes An Post just had them painted green. In some rural parts of the Ireland you can still see some of the Royal Mail crown and Symbols on the green painted Post Boxes.

Realt Dearg Sec

barrymanilow wrote: »

Maybe you know this but it was news to me at the time ;

After Ireland gained independence , rather than rip out the Red royal Mail post boxes An Post just had them painted green. In some rural parts of the Ireland you can still see some of the Royal Mail crown and Symbols on the green painted Post Boxes.

It was famously seen as symbolic of the failure of the new state. The implication being that nothing has fundamentally changed in people's lives, the state was the same as before but with a veneer of patriotic symbolism, like painting the post boxes green.

sbsquarepants

cdeb wrote: »

Higher than it was previously reported.

They measured it again and is has grown.

Are they 100% sure it didn't just snow, gets cold up there i believe:D

joujoujou

Well, it may actually shrink when frozen, I'd say.

Capt'n Midnight

lobbylad wrote: »

Dinali is the tallest on land, Mauna Kea in Hawaii is the tallest when measured from the sea bed

Pfff

Everyone knows Mount Chimborazo is the highest don't they ?

Capt'n Midnight

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

is Everest not growing every year due to tectonic plates coming together?

about 2cm on average, same sort of speed that the Atlantic widens at or the moon recedes.

joujoujou wrote: »

Well, it may actually shrink when frozen, I'd say.

Oddly enough they measured it at 3am for the exact opposite reason

KevRossi

barrymanilow wrote: »

Maybe you know this but it was news to me at the time ;

After Ireland gained independence , rather than rip out the Red royal Mail post boxes An Post just had them painted green. In some rural parts of the Ireland you can still see some of the Royal Mail crown and Symbols on the green painted Post Boxes.

There's loads of them in Dublin and south Dublin. This one is Victorian (installed up to 1901). Others have ER (Edward VII installed 1901-1910) or GR (George V installed 1910-1922) on them.

There's an incomplete list here:

joujoujou

Stolen from YLYL thread:

Scotland have their gritters named. And the names are just, well, cool.



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