I bet you didnt know that

dueaug · 01-02-2017 11:12pm

Did you know Sir Ian Mc Kellan was the vampire in Pet Shop Boys video "heart"!!! I bet you didn't

Cartouche · 01-02-2017 11:20pm

Inside a Black Hole in space all known laws of physics break down. Physicists can only speculate what happens inside

01-02-2017 11:57pm

You can't lick your elbow

You can always see your nose

If you push your ears out so they are at 90 degrees to your head, when you speak the voice you hear is the same as other people hear.

Skylinehead · 02-02-2017 12:11am

rossie1977 wrote: »

Even though Mercury is far closer to the sun (it orbits at a distance of 58 million km) the surface of Venus (which orbits the sun at over 108 million km) is far hotter. This is due to the greenhouse effect caused by massive amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The average temperature on the surface of Venus is 462 degrees celcius, day or night.

Mercury is close enough to that in direct sunlight, but due to little or no atmosphere, it gets to -170 celsius at night. Fair difference!

diomed · 02-02-2017 1:04am

Don Juan's Reckless Daughter album by Joni Mitchell
All three album cover images are Joni Mitchell

https://designkultur.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/screen-shot-2011-02-02-at-00-19-56.png

FanadMan · 02-02-2017 2:32am

Deleted User wrote: »

You can't lick your elbow

You can always see your nose

If you push your ears out so they are at 90 degrees to your head, when you speak the voice you hear is the same as other people hear.

Some people can lick their elbows. It was on QI - someone in the audience was shown doing it but there's no bloody video of it on YT

Squall Leonhart · 02-02-2017 10:14am

Deleted User wrote: »

If you push your ears out so they are at 90 degrees to your head, when you speak the voice you hear is the same as other people hear.

I want to try this now, but I'm in an office with people so it'll have to wait

Green Mile · 02-02-2017 11:32am

There are no pain receptors in your elbow. You can pinch your elbow skin as much as you want, it wont hurt.

ILikeBoats · 02-02-2017 11:34am

Green Mile wrote: »

There are no pain receptors in your elbow. You can pinch your elbow skin as much as you want, it wont hurt.

Holy sh!t!

Green Mile · 02-02-2017 11:44am

In September 1752, 11 days were removed from the calendar. The 3rd to the 13th of September 1752 never existed.

dr.fuzzenstein · 02-02-2017 1:12pm

The crack of a whip is a sonic boom.

Squall Leonhart · 02-02-2017 3:56pm

Skylinehead wrote: »

Mercury is close enough to that in direct sunlight, but due to little or no atmosphere, it gets to -170 celsius at night. Fair difference!

Mercury turns on it's own axis far far slower than earth does, meaning a day on mercury is equivalent to the length of 59 earth days. So that'd be a long, long, cold night.

Mercury also has the shortest year length, completing it's trip around the sun in 88 days.

VonLuck · 02-02-2017 8:30pm

Green Mile wrote: »

There are no pain receptors in your elbow. You can pinch your elbow skin as much as you want, it wont hurt.

Your funny bone more than makes up for the missing pain receptors.

Wanderer78 · 02-02-2017 8:44pm

VonLuck wrote: »

Your funny bone more than makes up for the missing pain receptors.

stupid (un)funny bone!

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 02-02-2017 9:03pm

Green Mile wrote: »

In September 1752, 11 days were removed from the calendar. The 3rd to the 13th of September 1752 never existed.

Only within the British empire.

Cartouche · 03-02-2017 12:53am

For every human on Earth there are 1.6 million ants

Gwynplaine · 03-02-2017 1:27am

There's a planet out there, very far away, that is made of diamonds.
Mikey Forrester in Trainspotting is played by Irvine Welsh.
Gary Oldman is Big Mo Slater's brother.

GrumpyMe · 03-02-2017 8:49am

That this tool is an awl

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Cartouche · 03-02-2017 12:55pm

On June 30th 1908 an explosion equal to 2000 atomic bombs shook the wilderness of Tunguska , Siberia. Millions of trees were incinerated in an explosion that could be seen as far away as London. Nobody knows for sure what caused this event but scientists think a meteor exploded above the ground

jimgoose · 03-02-2017 1:03pm

Cartouche wrote: »

On June 30th 1908 an explosion equal to 2000 atomic bombs shook the wilderness of Tunguska , Siberia. Millions of trees were incinerated in an explosion that could be seen as far away as London. Nobody knows for sure what caused this event but scientists think a meteor exploded above the ground

...and about a third of the power of the mighty Tsar Bomba, or "Emperor Bomb". This was detonated by those pesky Russkies on Novaya Zemlya island in the Arctic Ocean in 1961, and with an estimated blast yield of 57 megatons it broke windows 500 miles away. It is the most powerful hydrogen weapon and man-made explosion ever by a country mile.

Skylinehead · 03-02-2017 1:06pm

jimgoose wrote: »

...and about a third of the power of the mighty Tsar Bomba, or "Emperor Bomb". This was detonated by those pesky Russkies on Novaya Zemlya island in the Arctic Ocean in 1961, and with an estimated blast yield of 57 megatons it broke windows 500 miles away. It is the most powerful hydrogen weapon and man-made explosion ever by a country mile.

And they had the capacity to double that - although there's little chance the delivering plane would have escaped. Apparently the bomb was very clean fallout-wise relative to the power of it.

RobertKK · 03-02-2017 1:09pm

Berkeley in California is named after Kilkenny man George Berkeley.
The White House was designed and built by Kilkenny man James Hoban, who based the design on Leinster House in Dublin, when the British burned the White House, James Hoban oversaw the rebuilding of the destroyed portion.

jimgoose · 03-02-2017 1:09pm

Skylinehead wrote: »

And they had the capacity to double that - although there's little chance the delivering plane would have escaped. Apparently the bomb was very clean fallout-wise relative to the power of it.

Aye. Even as it was, Major Durnovtsev and co. were given a 50% chance of escaping the thing in the aircraft. Oh and, yes as a thermonuclear fusion weapon it would be relatively "clean" - most of the crap would have been thrown by the fission detonator stage.

Speedsie · 03-02-2017 1:14pm

RobertKK wrote: »

Berkeley in California is named after Kilkenny man George Berkeley.
The White House was designed and built by Kilkenny man James Hoban, who based the design on Leinster House in Dublin, when the British burned the White House, James Hoban oversaw the rebuilding of the destroyed portion.

James Hoban visited Lucan House, where the dining room is an oval, while he was training. The oval dining room there is said to be an inspiration for the Oval Office.

Kat1170 · 03-02-2017 1:30pm

Eat a few Gorse flowers as a natural remedy for heartburn.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer · 03-02-2017 2:02pm

I've always found this fascinating....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_last_surviving_veterans_of_military_insurgencies_and_wars

It's incredible to think that veterans of the Zulu War and US Civil War were still alive during the Second World War.

Red Kev · 03-02-2017 3:34pm

This slightly crazy looking woman with a gun is

Stalin's granddaughter.

Her mother was an interesting character, held Russian, American and British citizenship at some stage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svetlana_Alliluyeva

maudgonner · 03-02-2017 3:59pm

An engineer for Volvo invented the three-point seatbelt as part of their initiative to improve car safety.

They patented it and could have made rival car companies pay a fortune to use their design, or just made sure that their cars had the competitive advantage of being the only ones with three-point belts.

Instead they gave it away for free, allowed any car manufacturer to use the design and sent the engineer, Nils Bohlin, around the world to promote it. That generous decision saved millions of lives.

ScrubsfanChris · 03-02-2017 6:23pm

maudgonner wrote: »

An engineer for Volvo invented the three-point seatbelt as part of their initiative to improve car safety.

They patented it and could have made rival car companies pay a fortune to use their design, or just made sure that their cars had the competitive advantage of being the only ones with three-point belts.

Instead they gave it away for free, allowed any car manufacturer to use the design and sent the engineer, Nils Bohlin, around the world to promote it. That generous decision saved millions of lives.

They have boldly predicted that by 2020 no one will be fatility injured in a new Volvo.

http://jalopnik.com/this-is-volvos-bold-plan-to-eliminate-all-deaths-in-its-1668747230

karaokeman · 03-02-2017 6:58pm

Well for anime fans there's a Canadian dub of Dragon Ball Kai that started production over 7 years ago now that has still never seen the light of day on TV.

rarariot · 03-02-2017 7:03pm

karaokeman wrote: »

Well for anime fans there's a Canadian dub of Dragon Ball Kai that started production over 7 years ago now that has still never seen the light of day on TV.

haven't watched anime in years. i used to love it but my dad thought i was a weirdo. often if he saw me watching stuff like Naruto he'd beat me down with a set of meat tongs

DEFTLEFTHAND · 03-02-2017 7:07pm

Adolf 'Adi' Dassler and his brother Rudolf ran a sports shoe company together in Germany. 'Dassler Brothers'.

During the latter part of WW2 the brothers had a terrible falling out. Rudolf was picked up by Allied soldiers and accused of being in the SS, which he wasn't. He was convinced that Adi had set him up.

Owing to this, in 1947 Rudolf broke up their partnership and formed his own company which initially traded under the name 'Ruda' before rebranding as Puma later that year.

Adi renamed the original Dassler Bothers company, Adidas.

karaokeman · 03-02-2017 7:08pm

rarariot wrote: »

haven't watched anime in years. i used to love it but my dad thought i was a weirdo. often if he saw me watching stuff like Naruto he'd beat me down with a set of meat tongs

That's harsh man, no one deserves that kind of treatment :eek::eek::eek:. Heck, I've had friends who were Bronies but I still think no less of them for liking what they like. Society seriously needs to move past this idea that only children can enjoy animated shows.

I'm actually not big into anime myself, but I love myself some Dragon Ball.

Gwynplaine · 03-02-2017 7:57pm

RobertKK wrote: »

Berkeley in California is named after Kilkenny man George Berkeley.
The White House was designed and built by Kilkenny man James Hoban, who based the design on Leinster House in Dublin, when the British burned the White House, James Hoban oversaw the rebuilding of the destroyed portion.

Can I make a wild guess here? You're from Kilkenny? And you couldn't be prouder

junospider · 03-02-2017 9:05pm

Also a Kilkennyman named Walker invented the caterpillar track!

RiderOnTheStorm · 03-02-2017 11:04pm

There are 2 saints buried in Ireland with international holidays named after them. St Patrick, and St Nicolas. Yes, Santa did exist, and is buried in Kilkenny.... The Cats gettin all the news today!

Capt'n Midnight · 03-02-2017 11:14pm

RiderOnTheStorm wrote: »

There are 2 saints buried in Ireland with international holidays named after them. St Patrick, and St Nicolas. Yes, Santa did exist, and is buried in Kilkenny.... The Cats gettin all the news today!

And of course St Valentine down in Whitefriars

Capt'n Midnight · 03-02-2017 11:27pm

Squall Leonhart wrote: »

Mercury turns on it's own axis far far slower than earth does, meaning a day on mercury is equivalent to the length of 59 earth days. So that'd be a long, long, cold night.

Mercury also has the shortest year length, completing it's trip around the sun in 88 days.

Mercury's spin and orbit is synchronised so it's exactly three days every two years.

If you had the metal mercury on Mercury then by day it would be a gas and at night it would be a solid. In fact solid mercury is quite good for making bells, apart from the obvious problem of it turning back into a liquid.

Cartouche · 04-02-2017 12:02am

Gregory Peck took his role in 1976’s The Omen as a way to work out his “personal demons” — his son had committed suicide right before he auditioned

mansize · 04-02-2017 12:04am

The first county to win an all star in all positions in both codes was... (Not KK)

OFFALY

Capt'n Midnight · 04-02-2017 12:59am

maudgonner wrote: »

An engineer for Volvo invented the three-point seatbelt as part of their initiative to improve car safety.

No, it was a cost saving measure.

http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-01-27
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Red Kev · 04-02-2017 3:18pm

This is a Tatra T97 car. Built from 1936-39, it was designed by Hans ledwinka, an Austrian and was a development of the V570 concept car from 1930.

Look familiar? Well Hitler liked it and told Ferdinand Porsche that it would be perfect for German roads. Germany overran Czechoslovakia in 1938 and took the plans from Tatra for the car. Whilst Porsche was developing the KDF car (later called Beetle) through the 1930's they used so much of Tatra's ideas from 1938 on that VW agreed to pay Tatra compensation for stealing their plans 20 years later.

So the biggest selling car of all time was actually almost a direct rip off of a Czech design.

Cartouche · 04-02-2017 8:36pm

ET and Poltergeist were originally supposed to be the same movie, called Night Skies.

Steven Spielberg had originally conceived a project about a rural family terrorized by an alien invasion. Eventually, that evolved into the more benign arrival of "E.T.," while the invasive, ghostly force gave us "Poltergeist."

RiderOnTheStorm · 04-02-2017 9:53pm

Ireland was the first (modern) country to leave the British Empire / Commonwealth. India was the 2nd. For their new republic, the Indians adopted the Irish flag, but turned it 90 degrees and added a mandala. They thought it could become a thing. Each country leaving would create a new flag of green, white, and orange and personalise it.

It didn't catch on.

Chancer3001 · 04-02-2017 10:26pm

RiderOnTheStorm wrote: »

Ireland was the first (modern) country to leave the British Empire / Commonwealth. India was the 2nd. For their new republic, the Indians adopted the Irish flag, but turned it 90 degrees and added a mandala. They thought it could become a thing. Each country leaving would create a new flag of green, white, and orange and personalise it.

It didn't catch on.

I don't get it. What about America leaving?

4068ac1elhodqr · 04-02-2017 10:32pm

Most folks think 3-sting blues crooner 'Seasick Steve' and his frantic drummer got their 1st lucky break in the music biz on Jools Holland's show.

Fact is the 75yo started touring and performing back in the 60's had many friends in the music scene including Joni Mitchell, and was signed to numerous labels (inc Majors) and worked as a Studio Producer & Session Musician for plenty of other folks too e.g. Modest Mouse.

jimbobaloobob · 04-02-2017 10:43pm

I bet you didnt know this morning that Ireland would suffer defeat today to Scotland in the six nations.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 04-02-2017 11:08pm

Chancer3001 wrote: »

I don't get it. What about America leaving?

Neither the empire nor the commonwealth existed then.

Chancer3001 · 04-02-2017 11:19pm

The British empire didn't exist then? When did it exist then??

Chancer3001 · 04-02-2017 11:20pm

Chancer3001 wrote: »

The British empire didn't exist then? When did it exist then??

Just googled it. Seems you might be totally wrong

I bet you didnt know that

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