Odd factoids

[Profpointy]

Donald Trump reads this thread and makes global reaching decisions based on these factoids

I don't think he's quite that well-informed to be honest

 

[Drago]

Wikipedia started as a reference work about eighties rap music, and was originally called Wiki Wikipedia.

 

[classic33]

Biff Tannen, Back To The Future II, was based on Donald Trump.

The movie even predicted Trump would become President.

 

[MiK1138]

Are factoids facts on steroids?

It a well known fact that Chris Froome reads this very thread before every race

 

[MiK1138]

Facts were invented by the Romans. Prior to that no one could rely on anything.

The first fact the romans invented was that roads could bend, but it never caught on

 

[david k]

I don't think he's quite that well-informed to be honest

He does read it.....he is up to page 3

 

[david k]

I don't think he's quite that well-informed to be honest

He does read it.....he is up to page 3

 

[Dave7]

The first fact the romans invented was that roads could bend, but it never caught on

The first Roman road builders (Paddy Maximus and ceasarius deadendicus) planned to build their very first road out of sandstone. The local council chief told them "that is a load of cobblers". Since then cobblers (or cobbled) road became standard.

 

[Profpointy]

Plate tectonics, proposed by the meteoroligst Alfred Wegener was originally pooh-poohed by geologists who wouldn't accept an outsider's view. Discovery of a fossilised giraffe bones finally proved the theory of continental drift; the left leg was in Africa and the right leg in South America.

 

[classic33]

Plate tectonics, proposed by the meteoroligst Alfred Wegener was originally pooh-poohed by geologists who wouldn't accept an outsider's view. Discovery of a fossilised giraffe bones finally proved the theory of continental drift; the left leg was in Africa and the right leg in South America.

Previous unknown species of giant giraffe. That tall it was able to straddle the Atlantic.

Any remains of the other two legs has been hampered by the fact that no record was made/kept of which each leg was facing. If they had this information they could work out which way it was facing, thus aiding the search for the rest of the remains.

 

[Profpointy]

Previous unknown species of giant giraffe. That tall it was able to straddle the Atlantic.

Any remains of the other two legs has been hampered by the fact that no record was made/kept of which leg was found where. If they had this information they could work out which way it was facing, thus aiding the search for the rest of the remains.

Duh - it wasn't a giant giraffe with Atlantic spanning legs, else it'd not have proved plate tectonics. The giraffe died exactly on the boundaries of the two plates, so when Gondwanaland split, one leg ended up in each modern continent. The version you say is just being silly !

 

[classic33]

Duh - it wasn't a giant giraffe with Atlantic spanning legs, else it'd not have proved plate tectonics. The giraffe died exactly on the boundaries of the two plates, so when Gondwanaland split, one leg ended up in each modern continent. The version you say is just being silly !

The Atlantic wouldn't have been as big back then though. After Pangea split up.

 

[Profpointy]

The Atlantic wouldn't have been as big back then though. After Pangea split up.

I think the Atlantic was only a small fissure a few mm wide when the giraffe died right on the join

 

[FishFright]

The Atlantic wouldn't have been as big back then though. After Pangea split up.

Pangea were an early prog rock band , as a result only those in double denim care.

 

[Dave7]

Baked beans were unheard of before 627 BC. They were invented by the Roman gladiator....Fartimus Maximus.
His brother Extraculas Bloodyhellimus Maximus added his newly invented curry powder to them.
The rest....is history.