The most boring single fact you can come up with

anniehoo · 19-01-2009 05:08PM

If i get home by 7 tonight i can defrost the mince i have in my freezer for the last 2 months and have spag bol ready in time for corrie street! Hmmm....i lead a v exciting life!

Quazzie · 19-01-2009 05:09PM

All numbers divisible by 9 also add up to 9 or another multiple of 9
e.g
18 = 1+8 =9
117= 1+1+7=9
423= 4+2+3=9
693=6+9+3=18

jobucks · 19-01-2009 05:09PM

No food lowers cholesterol more

DenMan · 19-01-2009 05:10PM

The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

Quazzie · 19-01-2009 05:10PM

All numbers divisible by 9 also add up to 9 or another multiple of 9
e.g
18 = 1+8 =9
117= 1+1+7=9
423= 4+2+3=9
693=6+9+3=18

19-01-2009 05:12PM

All numbers divisible by 9 also add up to 9 or another multiple of 9
e.g
18 = 1+8 =9
117= 1+1+7=9
423= 4+2+3=9
693=6+9+3=18

Austin 3:16 · 19-01-2009 05:16PM

There is no VAT on cakes.

Turd Ferguson · 19-01-2009 05:16PM

anniehoo wrote: »

If i get home by 7 tonight i can defrost the mince i have in my freezer for the last 2 months and have spag bol ready in time for corrie street! Hmmm....i lead a v exciting life!

Dam you, now I want spag bol

Also
All numbers divisible by 9 also add up to 9 or another multiple of 9
e.g
18 = 1+8 =9
117= 1+1+7=9
423= 4+2+3=9
693=6+9+3=18

loz · 19-01-2009 05:21PM

Austin 3:16 wrote: »

There is no VAT on cakes.

excluding jaffa cakes - that are actually buscuits.

DenMan · 19-01-2009 05:23PM

Spiral staircases in medieval castles are running clockwise. This is because all knights used to be right handed. When the intruding army would climb the stairs they would not be able to use their right hand which was holding the sword because of the difficulty of climbing the stairs. Left handed knights would have no troubles, except left handed people could never become knights because it was assumed they were descendants of the devil.

(Useless fact for some people but I found it brilliant)

Terry · 19-01-2009 05:24PM

gavredking wrote: »

for all those screwing and un-screwing jobs remember,

Righty tighty,
lefty loosey,

When wiring a plug:
bR brown to the Right.
bL blue to the Left.

St Bill · 19-01-2009 05:24PM

David Brent on a date :

'Pound for pound, lemons contain more sugar than strawberries'

All the good ones are either married, gay or David Brent

Epic Tissue · 19-01-2009 05:24PM

these are all fascinating:D

I particularly like the All numbers divisible by 9 also add up to 9 or another multiple of 9 one

loz · 19-01-2009 05:28PM

20 thousand posts ! - since last may ?

hal9000 · 19-01-2009 05:29PM

A gaylord, bulk bin, or corrugated pallet box is a pallet size box usually made of triple wall corrugated fiberboard. These are used for bulk packaging and were initially produced by Gaylord Container Company of Gaylord, Michigan. A gaylord box is often 48" x 40" x 36" (approx. 120 cm x 100 cm x 90 cm) and fits neatly on a standard shipping pallet

Sam Vimes · 19-01-2009 05:29PM

loz wrote: »

excluding jaffa cakes - that are actually buscuits.

Not in england apparently.

Smart Bug · 19-01-2009 05:29PM

A Brazil nut is actually a seed.

javaboy · 19-01-2009 05:30PM

loz wrote: »

20 thousand posts ! - since last may ?

Look again.

A peanut is neither a pea* or a nut.

*It can kind of be called a pea but meh

Quazzie · 19-01-2009 05:31PM

Smart Bug wrote: »

A Brazil nut is actually a seed.

A brazil nut was not called after brazil but the country was actually called after the nut.

sillymoo · 19-01-2009 05:31PM

David McSavage is gay.

Fact.

Sam Vimes · 19-01-2009 05:33PM

Vikings used to use ravens to find new lands. Ravens can't land on water so they would throw one up and it would fly very high. If it saw land it would fly off towards it, otherwise it would land back on the boat. According to stephen fry iceland was discovered that way

Peteee · 19-01-2009 05:33PM

julep wrote: »

In other news, a parsec is a unit of measurement (The distance between the Earth and the sun).

The distance between the earth and the sun is an astronomical unit (AU)

The parsec is derived from the AU, but is not equal to it.

A parsec is 3.26 light years.

wiki wrote:

The parsec is defined as the length of the adjacent side of an imaginary right triangle in space. The two dimensions that this triangle is based on are the angle (which is defined as 1 arcsecond), and the opposite side (which is defined as 1 Astronomical Unit, which is the distance from the Earth to the Sun). Using these two measurements, along with the rules of trigonometry, the length of the adjacent side (the parsec) can be found.

A boring fact is that knowing things like the above leaves me no friends.

chiliconparmi · 19-01-2009 05:34PM

I yawned at 16:35

stovelid · 19-01-2009 05:38PM

Having 'teaser' thread titles doesn't generate more interest in your thread. Sure, people will still click through (or hover the cursor over the title) but they file your user name in their internal cunt file.

chiliconparmi · 19-01-2009 05:40PM

A giraffe can clean its ears with its tongue

Flatfish (halibut, flounder, turbot, and sole) hatch like any other "normal" fish. As they grow, they turn sideways and one eye moves around so they have two eyes on the side that faces up

There are more than 150 million sheep in Australia, a nation of 17 million people

The oldest breed of dog is the Saluki

DenMan · 19-01-2009 05:40PM

chiliconparmi wrote: »

I yawned at 16:35

And travelled back in time to tell us, fair play to you.

A cut's urine glows under a black light.

Degag · 19-01-2009 05:41PM

javaboy wrote: »

Incorrect. The rule is year's divisible by 100 are not leap years unless they are divisible by 400.

Hold on, surely if 2000 was a leap year then 2100 will be? 2000 +(25*4yrs)

Quazzie · 19-01-2009 05:43PM

No because years aren't exactly 365.25 days. They are slightly less and the skipping 3 days every 400 years makes up for this

Sam Vimes · 19-01-2009 05:43PM

in a fight between a lion and bear, the bear will win every time

javaboy · 19-01-2009 05:43PM

Degag wrote: »

Hold on, surely if 2000 was a leap year then 2100 will be? 2000 +(25*4yrs)

If a year is divisible by 400 it is a leap year.
If a year is divisible by 4 but not by 100 it is a leap year.

All other years are "common" years.

The most boring single fact you can come up with

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