Fascinating fact of the day

[Dayvo]

Gorillas can't swim.

Gorillas have never been seen queuing for armbands or rubber rings in a sports shop, either.

 

[Spinney]

The distance between your wrist and your elbow is exactly the same as the length of your foot.

Cue cyclechatters trying to get their feet up to their elbows...

(Can't say about exactly, but my proportions are about that!)

 

[DCLane]

The distance between your wrist and your elbow is exactly the same as the length of your foot.

Not true - my arm's longer. Erm ... yes, I just checked

The average person accidentally eats 430 bugs each year of their life - cyclists possibly more.

That's more like a month for me

 

[Vapin' Joe]

If you have ever worn a cycle helmet it saved your life.

 

[ianrauk]

If you weren't wearing a helmet and you had an accident - Naughty -cos if you had have worn one it would have saved your life

 

[G2EWS]

Drinking 3/4 of a bottle of low alcohol wine (5%) will still give you a headache next day as I found out this morning. Sigh...mutter...grumble.

That will be the chemicals they use to keep it low alcohol when they kill the fermentation, yeuch!!

Chris

 

[Archie_tect]

You always only ever find things in the last place you look.

 

[Glow worm]

That will be the chemicals they use to keep it low alcohol when they kill the fermentation, yeuch!!

That would explain it! Was thinking I was being good on a school night by not drinking real wine and fancied a glass of something, and that bottle had been sat there for months. Ordered the thing by mistake on a Sainsbury's internet order not noticing the 5% bit - fatal error- never again!

 

[martint235]

Cue cyclechatters trying to get their feet up to their elbows...

(Can't say about exactly, but my proportions are about that!)

Sorry I should have added: Hint: It's easier to put your shoe on your forearm.

 

[Hilldodger]

Everything you will ever need to know about anything will have been posted on Cyclechat. And if something isn't there, you don't really need to know, anyway

 

[RaRa]

When you blush apparently the lining of your stomach also goes red!

 

[dellzeqq]

Everything you will ever need to know about anything will have been posted on Cyclechat. And if something isn't there, you don't really need to know, anyway

true - LaMonte Young's 1960 Piano Piece for David Tudor #1 has no notes, but includes hay and water

Bring a bale of hay and a bucket of water on the the stage for the piano to eat and drink. The piano may feed the piano or leave it to eat by itself. If the former the piece is is over after the piano has been fed. If the latter, it is over after the piano eats or decides not to.

 

[jayonabike]

The character 'Trigger' in Only fools & horses first name is Colin.

 

[ASC1951]

Alexander the Great was an epileptic.

Really? There's no evidence for that in contemporary sources, nor even of episodes that we would now interpret as epilepsy.

Julius Caesar may well have been, because he had several well-attested seizures; and Napoleon almost certainly was.

 

[TVC]

If you have ever worn a cycle helmet it saved your life.

FACT!