I bet you didnt know that

jimbobaloobob · 15-01-2017 12:37am

Cincincnati has a subway system that was built, never used and then abandoned.

silverharp · 15-01-2017 12:40am

The very last German troops of the Second World War to call it quits turned themselves in to a band of Norwegian seal hunters on the remote Bear Island in the Barents Sea on Sept. 4, 1945 – nearly four months after VE Day! The small detachment had been sent to the distant Arctic outpost to establish a weather station sometime late in the war. Having lost radio contact with headquarters in May. They gave up without a fight.

prinzeugen · 15-01-2017 12:45am

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Irish mainline railways have been using 1600 mm since 1843.

Needless to say today the Luas uses 4 feet 8 1⁄2 inches because :rolleyes:

The gauge in Ireland has always been referred to as 5 foot 3 inches. Only recently (as in the UK) has mm been used.

Railwaymen still refer to the space between the rails as the 5 foot.

4 foot 8 and a half inches was used for the Luas as that is the standard gauge for most of the world and the trams and other equipment for the Luas could be "bought off the shelf" rather than having to be specially designed for the Irish 5'3".

learn_more · 15-01-2017 12:46am

LexieOnRale wrote: »

You can fix a broken nail using a teabag

You can fix a torn teabag with a nail.

prinzeugen · 15-01-2017 12:55am

Grayson wrote: »

Dublin Bus still use the numbering system from the tram days for some of the routes. 1,3,14,15 & 18 are ones that are basically the same as far as I am aware.

Corkgirl18 · 15-01-2017 1:00am

The Pringles Man's name is Julius

jimbobaloobob · 15-01-2017 1:01am

Al Pacino turned down the role of Han solo because he didnt understand the script

maudgonner · 15-01-2017 1:15am

jimbobaloobob wrote: »

Al Pacino turned down the role of Han solo because he didnt understand the script

Tom Selleck was meant to do Indiana Jones but he couldn't get out of Magnum PI, so the role went to Harrison Ford.

The role of Dr Alan Grant in Jurassic Park was written for Harrison Ford but wound up going to Sam Neill - I can't watch it now without thinking 'Indiana Jones and the Island of Dinosaurs"!

Lorelli! · 15-01-2017 1:16am

Not a lot of people know this but...

jimbobaloobob · 15-01-2017 1:18am

Harrison Ford was a stage hand for the Doors.

Rumpy Pumpy · 15-01-2017 1:21am

Over 600,000 transactions are passed between IT and operational systems every hour to keep the electricity supply and distribution network in Ireland up and running.

Bone Cancer · 15-01-2017 1:22am

The music in the 'You wouldn't steal a car' ad was pirated for use in the ad.

learn_more · 15-01-2017 1:24am

Picking up in Coppers is not as easy as ppl say it is.

SEPT 23 1989 · 15-01-2017 1:26am

95% of jobs created during the Obama administration were short term contracts or part time jobs

learn_more · 15-01-2017 1:32am

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

95% of jobs created during the Obama administration were short term contracts or part time jobs

Donald Trump pissed all his profits up the wall.

Cortina_MK_IV · 15-01-2017 1:32am

Sylvester Stallone got the part of Rocky by accident.

Cartouche · 15-01-2017 1:32am

Google's founders were willing to sell to Excite for under $1 million in 1999—but Excite turned them down.

Tilikum · 15-01-2017 1:32am

Cheetahs originated in North America

sharpey85 · 15-01-2017 1:33am

Cartouche wrote:

Sean Connery turned down the Gandalf role in Lord of the Rings

He also turned down a contract at Manchester United

Tilikum · 15-01-2017 1:33am

Cortina_MK_IV wrote: »

Sylvester Stallone got the part of Rocky by accident.

He wrote it & wanted to play it himself

jimbobaloobob · 15-01-2017 1:33am

You didnt know that i didnt know any of this earlier

Cortina_MK_IV · 15-01-2017 1:40am

Cortina_MK_IV wrote: »

Sylvester Stallone got the part of Rocky by accident.

Tilikum wrote: »

He wrote it & wanted to play it himself

Exactly... Leading up to the mistake.

Senna · 15-01-2017 1:48am

Gmail was orginally "Garfield Mail" (the cat) and owned by Jim Davis, Google bought the name afterwards.
In Germany you couldn't have a "Gmail" account, it had to be called "GoogleMail" as there was already a company called Gmail who provided the service of recieveing your emails, printing them out and posting them to you, surprise surprise, that company sold the name when their own company tanked.

Finally, put a + sign anywhere in your Gmail address when you sign up to mailing lists, you will still receive the mail, but Google will organise them. Good way to direct stuff you might not want (or definitely don't want to miss)

prinzeugen · 15-01-2017 1:55am

Senna wrote: »

Finally, put a + sign anywhere in your Gmail address when you sign up to mailing lists, you will still receive the mail, but Google will organise them. Good way to direct stuff you might not want (or definitely don't want to miss)

Why is this a good idea? Hotmail/Outlook are at this crap as well. The postman does not open and read my mail or make a decision about "what's important" before he sticks it through the letterbox so why the flying feck should google or hotmail??

Satriale · 15-01-2017 2:04am

All modern Polar bears are descended, on their mothers side, from the Irish Brown Bear.

endacl · 15-01-2017 2:13am

Anders Shy Aircraft wrote: »

Apples have more genes than a Human.

This could go on for years.......

Bollox. I have six pairs. I've never even seen an apple wearing trousers.

xabi · 15-01-2017 2:16am

Peanuts aren't nuts.

jimbobaloobob · 15-01-2017 2:18am

xabi wrote: »

Peanuts aren't nuts.

You cant leave me feeling that thick tell me more!

gitzy16v · 15-01-2017 2:19am

Noah actually had 3 of each animal on the ark

Tin Foil Hat · 15-01-2017 2:20am

Masala wrote: »

More people die every year from kicks from donkeys than die in airline crashes

* puts all donkeys on the watchlist *

xabi · 15-01-2017 2:22am

jimbobaloobob wrote: »

You cant leave me feeling that thick tell me more!

They are Legumes

Capt'n Midnight · 15-01-2017 2:34am

Deedsie wrote: »

Ya, practicalities of a pre existing system. Would be too expensive to change and goodness knows any investment in our rail network has more important priorities. Luckily the public don't have to deal with those measurements, rail operators and engineers.

Still a ridiculous system.

One of the Luas lines used an existing rail route.

We could be here all day

Tin Foil Hat · 15-01-2017 2:38am

You can open a box of photocopying paper by flipping over the strapping and peeling back the loose end.

fineso.mom · 15-01-2017 2:44am

Tin Foil Hat wrote: »

You can open a box of photocopying paper by flipping over the strapping and peeling back the loose end.

Same with briquettes.

L1011 · 15-01-2017 2:52am

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

One of the Luas lines used an existing rail route.

We could be here all day

And will use another when the extension finishes. The other uses an old canal for a bit.

Sideshow Cecil · 15-01-2017 2:54am

gitzy16v wrote: »

Noah actually had 3 of each animal on the ark

Danny is that you?

Satriale · 15-01-2017 2:57am

Most cars have an arrow on the instrument cluster that tell you what side the fuel filler cap is on, (the few that dont use the nozzle on the image of the pump to indicate the correct side.)

StupidLikeAFox · 15-01-2017 5:26am

prinzeugen wrote: »

Why is this a good idea? Hotmail/Outlook are at this crap as well. The postman does not open and read my mail or make a decision about "what's important" before he sticks it through the letterbox so why the flying feck should google or hotmail??

I think he is talking about the feature whereby if your email address is prinz@gmail.com then you can put a +whatever in there and it will still end up I your inbox.

Prinz+1@gmail.com
Prinz+boobies@gmail.com
Prinz+gmail@gmail.com

...will all end up at the same inbox. Very handy if you want to sign up to something multiple times but still have the same inbox

take everything · 15-01-2017 6:09am

The colour green does not exist in parts of China. Scientists believe this to be related to the huge smog problem there.

Dwarves are illegal in South America.

Bears can vote in Alaska. Most don't however.

The letter p was dropped from the alphabet in 1903. An abysmal failure of metrification, it was quickly reinstated after the great secretary revolt later that year.

Senecio · 15-01-2017 9:48am

Satriale wrote: »

Most cars have an arrow on the instrument cluster that tell you what side the fuel filler cap is on, (the few that dont use the nozzle on the image of the pump to indicate the correct side.)

While your first statement is true, unfortunately the second is not. The nozzle side does not indicate the fuel filler cap side.

Wibbs · 15-01-2017 10:04am

take everything wrote: »

The colour green does not exist in parts of China.

Funny enough the colour blue doesn't feature in the New or Old Testament of the bible, or ancient Greek writings and old Japanese texts use the same colour for green and blue. The only ancient civilisation who had a word for "blue" were the Egyptians, probably because they made a small fortune in exporting a dye of that colour. The Greeks described both the ocean and sheep as the colour of wine, honey from bees as green and reported the rainbow as only possessing three or four colours. Slightly more recently before the words pink and orange came along such colours were bundled under "red", hence the robin red breast, who would be the robin orange breast if discovered today.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 15-01-2017 10:05am

Tin Foil Hat wrote: »

You can open a box of photocopying paper by flipping over the strapping and peeling back the loose end.

fineso.mom wrote: »

Same with briquettes.

That's not a 'you can', it's a you're supposed to.

learn_more · 15-01-2017 11:03am

gitzy16v wrote: »

Noah actually had 3 of each animal on the ark

There was no Noah, much less an ark.

gitzy16v · 15-01-2017 11:05am

learn_more wrote: »

There was no Noah, much less an ark.

Damn,foiled again.

Satriale · 15-01-2017 11:10am

Senecio wrote: »

While your first statement is true, unfortunately the second is not. The nozzle side does not indicate the fuel filler cap side.

Apologies, I shouldnt believe everything Donald Trump tells me...

Corkgirl18 · 15-01-2017 11:32am

There are more atoms in a cup of water than there are cups of water in the world's oceans.

bnt · 15-01-2017 11:36am

The Cape Colony in South Africa was founded, in 1651, by a Dutch administrator named Jan van Riebeeck. A pretty important person in the history of the country, so they naturally put his picture on the money:

Problem was ... the picture was of someone else, another Dutch guy named Bartholomeus Vermuyden. Oops ...

jimmycrackcorm · 15-01-2017 11:43am

learn_more wrote:

There was no Noah, much less an ark.

But I saw the film with Steve Carroll

Stealthfins · 15-01-2017 11:53am

Roses,apple trees, blackberries, peaches, strawberries are all in the one plant family Rosaceae

There's thousands of them.

Spanish Eyes · 15-01-2017 12:01pm

Mayday, Mayday has nothing to do with the Bank Holiday. It is the Anglicisation of the French "M'aidez", help me.

I bet you didnt know that

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