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    #392
    eviltimeban
    Registered Users Posts: 5,087 ✭✭✭eviltimeban


    The word "pussy" as in, "don't be a pussy" comes from the word "pusillanimous", which means "showing a lack of courage or determination".


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    #393
    Laois_Man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,758 ✭✭✭Laois_Man


    The sum of all the numbers on a roulette wheel is 666


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    #394
    Digital Solitude
    Registered Users Posts: 11,397 ✭✭✭✭Digital Solitude


    The Fibonacci sequence is a relatively good mile to km converter.

    The sequence is made by adding the last two numbers together to make the next one

    So 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233 and so on is how the sequence works.

    2 miles is 3.2km
    3 miles is 4.8km
    5 miles is 8km
    8 miles is 12.8km

    And so on, it gets less accurate as you go on, but stays pretty okay, so 233 miles is 375km, just 2km off the sequence.


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    #395
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,277 ✭✭✭Your Face


    You can't actually see John Cena.


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    #396
    jiltloop
    Registered Users Posts: 2,182 ✭✭✭jiltloop


    jimgoose wrote: »
    That's just the tip of the iceberg. It is also illegal in Britain to:


    Be drunk or, as a landlord allow drunkeness, in a pub.

    Carry a plank on a pavement.

    Enter the Houses of Parliament in a suit of armour.

    Beat a rug or carpet on the street.

    Handle salmon in suspicious circumstances.

    Ride on a bus if you have the plague.

    Import potatoes which are known or suspected to be Polish.

    I don't think there were such things as buses when the plague was around.


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    #397
    4068ac1elhodqr
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    Digital Solitude wrote: »
    The Fibonacci sequence is a relatively good ...

    ...as nature's own code, it's present in everything from flowers, shells to spiral galaxies. It can even appear on stock market pattern fluctuations. I use some of the sequence as my lucky lotto numbers.

    Screen_Shot_2017_01_25_at_15_35_17.pngScreen_Shot_2017_01_25_at_15_35_34.png

    Most people when asked to place two candles on a mantelpiece, will place them in a position that reflects this 'golden mean'. Those that just put the pair on one single edge are broken, and best avoided.


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    #398
    eviltimeban
    Registered Users Posts: 5,087 ✭✭✭eviltimeban


    Captain Kirk never said "Beam me up Scotty". He said "Scotty, beam me up".

    "If you build it, they will come" was never said in Field Of Dreams (it was "he will come").

    The Apollo 13 crew never said "Houston, we have a problem". It was "we've had a problem".


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    #399
    Digital Solitude
    Registered Users Posts: 11,397 ✭✭✭✭Digital Solitude


    Alanna Thousands Valley wrote: »
    ...as nature's own code, it's present in everything from flowers, shells to spiral galaxies. It can even appear on stock market pattern fluctuations. I use some of the sequence as my lucky lotto numbers.

    Most people when asked to place two candles on a mantelpiece, will place them in a position that reflects this 'golden mean'. Those that just put the pair on one single edge are broken, and best avoided.

    CX8eZI5WMAAFpgv.jpg

    Greek temples and pinecones are shaped using it too!


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    #400
    jimgoose
    Registered Users Posts: 20,176 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    jiltloop wrote: »
    I don't think there were such things as buses when the plague was around.

    We kid thee not. Under the UK Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984, "no person who is known to be suffering from a notifiable disease (including plague) may enter a public conveyance without notifying the driver of the condition". The same statute forbids a bus driver from carrying such a person at all.


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    #401
    Cina
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    New York City is closer to the equator than Rome.


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    #402
    Skylinehead
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    Most maps we use are way off scale the further north/south of the equator you go, because we can't properly depict a sphere on a flat piece of paper. Greenland and Africa are a good example

    Greenland-vs-Africa-on-a-FLAT-map.png

    The Greenland superimposed on Africa is its actual size.


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    #403
    Winterlong
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    Skylinehead wrote: »
    Most maps we use are way off scale the further north/south of the equator you go, because we can't properly depict a sphere on a flat piece of paper. Greenland and Africa are a good example


    The Greenland superimposed on Africa is its actual size.

    Another one is that maps suggests that Scandinavian countries are larger than India, whereas in reality India is three times the size of all Scandinavian countries put together.


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    #404
    pickarooney
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    Skylinehead wrote: »
    Most maps we use are way off scale the further north/south of the equator you go, because we can't properly depict a sphere on a flat piece of paper. Greenland and Africa are a good example

    Greenland-vs-Africa-on-a-FLAT-map.png

    The Greenland superimposed on Africa is its actual size.

    It's actual size? :D


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    #405
    jimgoose
    Registered Users Posts: 20,176 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Winterlong wrote: »
    Another one is that maps suggests that Scandinavian countries are larger than India, whereas in reality India is three times the size of all Scandinavian countries put together.

    Yes, the Mercator Projection, pretty much the standard World map since around 1570. It's importance stems from maritime navigation, because it goes out of it's way to keep lines of latitude and longitude straight and perpendicular. A side-effect of this is more and more distortion going from the Equator to the poles. A Gall–Peters projection preserves proper scale, but is weird-looking.


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    #406
    Skylinehead
    Registered Users Posts: 11,690 ✭✭✭✭Skylinehead


    pickarooney wrote: »
    It's actual size? :D

    I'm slightly confused now

    Are you grammaring me :P


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    #407
    Cina
    Registered Users Posts: 2,387 ✭✭✭Cina


    Oreos existed before sliced bread.


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    #408
    jimgoose
    Registered Users Posts: 20,176 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    The Cherokee word for lawyer is "ditiyohihi", which translates literally in their polysynthetic language as "he argues repeatedly and on purpose with a purpose".

    Many of you will remember the polite titters in 1963 when John Fitzgerald Kennedy accidentally described himself as a jam doughnut. At least, he would have done if he was in Munich, where the word Berliner is actually used for doughnuts. In Berlin the word used is Pfannkuchen and JFK was quite correct. When the crowd laughed, it was after Kennedy said "I appreciate my interpreter translating my German.".

    Finally this afternoon, this is the River Goul between Tipperary and Kilkenny:

    johnstown-river-goul-2_resize_resize.jpg

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


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    #409
    topper75
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    sharpey85 wrote: »
    Johnny Cash was the first American to know that Stalin had died. Due to his role in the military being to intercept Russian Morse code.

    Aye and transmission notifying Moscow of the first ever flight of a Russian jet bomber was also intercepted by Cash. Quite something.

    Country music today is sorely lacking a Cash character. He was a one off it seems.


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    #410
    sbsquarepants
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    Cina wrote: »
    New York City is closer to the equator than Rome.

    Jaysus - my picture of the world is way wrong!

    Not only is new York closer (which I didn't believe!) but is actually less than half the distance Rome is.
    New York is 4500 km Rome is more than 10,000km :eek::eek:

    I must be picturing the world at about a 45 degree tilt!


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    #411
    larchielads
    Registered Users Posts: 1,699 ✭✭✭larchielads


    Your Face wrote: »
    You can't actually see John Cena.

    Chuck norris can


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    #412
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users Posts: 40,184 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    sbsquarepants wrote: »
    Jaysus - my picture of the world is way wrong!

    Not only is new York closer (which I didn't believe!) but is actually less than half the distance Rome is.
    New York is 4500 km Rome is more than 10,000km :eek::eek:

    I must be picturing the world at about a 45 degree tilt!


    I think you need to redo your maths. New York is at 40 degrees latitude, Rome is at 41 degrees. the difference is only about 100KM.


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    #413
    KKkitty
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    Cina wrote: »
    Oreos existed before sliced bread.

    Betty White of The Golden Girls fame was born prior to bread being sold in slices commercially.


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    #414
    jimgoose
    Registered Users Posts: 20,176 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    KKkitty wrote: »
    Betty White of The Golden Girls fame was born prior to bread being sold in slices commercially.

    Wonder Bread, the American Pat the Baker, began only seven years before Mr. Otto Frederick Rohwedder stunned the world by mechanically slicing a whole loaf at a time to perfect uniform thickness.


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    #415
    Cartouche
    Closed Accounts Posts: 248 ✭✭Cartouche


    Will Smith is now older than Uncle Phil was at the beginning of "The Fresh Prince"


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    #416
    Wanderer2010
    Registered Users Posts: 6,678 ✭✭✭Wanderer2010


    Do the NCT keep your hubcaps?? They took mine off for the test, and I only noticed when I got home that my 4 hubcaps are not there anymore. Arent they supposed to put them back?


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    #417
    Mister Vain
    Registered Users Posts: 6,041 ✭✭✭Mister Vain


    Everyone has a unique tongue print, just like fingerprints.

    Female kangeroos have three vaginas.


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    #418
    mzungu
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,307 Mod ✭✭✭✭mzungu


    22 years ago today:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFsW6vvBwHk


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    #419
    Big Nasty
    Registered Users Posts: 22,080 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    Pancake batter smells like jizz :eek:


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    #420
    jameorahiely
    Registered Users Posts: 825 ✭✭✭jameorahiely


    Wanderer2010 wrote: »
    Do the NCT keep your hubcaps?? They took mine off for the test, and I only noticed when I got home that my 4 hubcaps are not there anymore. Arent they supposed to put them back?

    You're supposed to remove the hubcaps if the wheel nuts are not visible. They csn fail you for not doing this.


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    Laois_Man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,758 ✭✭✭Laois_Man


    Ireland has the lowest number of reported UFO sightings in the world!


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