Random fact of the day

[Mad Doug Biker]

Gatwick Airport Station was originally called Gatwick Racecourse and had special sidings for horse boxes built on land taken from the De Gatwick land owning family.
The name Gatwick was first recorded as Gatwik (also the site of a manor) and is itself derived from the Saxon 'Gat Wik', meaning 'Goat Wik', Goat farm or Dairy Farm.

I didn't know that.

 

[ComedyPilot]

I have a 30" inside leg.

 

[fossala]

I have 12" on the inside of my leg
I'll let myself out...

 

[classic33]

Gatwick Airport Station was originally called Gatwick Racecourse and had special sidings for horse boxes built on land taken from the De Gatwick land owning family.
The name Gatwick was first recorded as Gatwik (also the site of a manor) and is itself derived from the Saxon 'Gat Wik', meaning 'Goat Wik', Goat farm or Dairy Farm.

I didn't know that.

IF you didn't know that how'd you manage to post it?

 

[classic33]

2,999mph - mach 5.1 - was the speed reached by Boeing's X-51A in a test flight over the Pacific in May this year. It flew at this speed for 210 seconds.

 

[Markymark]

More people have died falling off the monumnt than died in the Great Fire of London that it commemorates.

 

[petefastfeet]

The queen owns the land between high tide and low tide

 

[Hitchington]

The average human produces 28,000 litres of gas in their lifetime, enough to power Swindon for a day.

 

[morrisman]

The barrel crow's nest on a ship was invented by Captain William Scorsbey (1789 - 1857) a whaler captain out of Whitby.

 

[BigonaBianchi]

people always screw you in the end

 

[surfdude]

its very risky to let rip when you have D&V

 

[DiddlyDodds]

Captain Scarlet was his secret agent name , his real name in the series is Paul Metcalfe

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

IF you didn't know that how'd you manage to post it?

Umm..... The law of averages?

 

[biggs682]

i have missed @Mad Doug Biker

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

i have missed @Mad Doug Biker

I have missed you all too!

Annyway, seeing as this is 'Random fact of the day' the next fact I will post really SHOULD be tomorrow.