Random fact of the day

[classic33]

Younger burglars tend to wear more expensive trainers than their older countparts. Also the less well off, the more expensive the trainers being worn.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I thought I'd just share the fact I learned from Radio 4 this morning: the inventor of Subbuteo named the game after the hobby (falcon).

 

[classic33]

14.8 Metres is the length of the worlds largest Easter egg. Made in Alcohete, Portugal, in 2008. Diameter was 8.4 Metres!

 

[hopless500]

14.8 Metres is the length of the worlds largest Easter egg. Made in Alcohete, Portugal, in 2008. Diameter was 8.4 Metres!

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Another Radio 4 factoid from this morning: Spam is very popular in S Korea.

 

[chriss2.0]

for its size, the Australian tiger beetle can outrun
a supersonic jet.
It runs so fast it's eyes can't keep up and it goes blind

 

[colly]

I thought I'd just share the fact I learned from Radio 4 this morning: the inventor of Subbuteo named the game after the hobby (falcon).

Really? Wouldn't it have been Hobbuteo then?

 

[classic33]

760mph(1223kmh) is the speed of the Hyperloop, a new form of transport. Its passengers would be fired, seated in capsules down tubes. Journey time from San Francisco to L.A., would be 30 minutes. Trip distance of juust over 416 miles.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

760mph(1223kmh) is the speed of the Hyperloop, a new form of transport. Its passengers would be fired, seated in capsules down tubes. Journey time from San Francisco to L.A., would be 30 minutes. Trip distance of juust over 416 miles.

I think my local Co-Op used to have one of those to shoot small items in capsules to other parts of the building by the power of compressed air.

I'll get me coat.

 

[classic33]

I think my local Co-Op used to have one of those to shoot small items in capsules to other parts of the building by the power of compressed air.

I'll get me coat.

Next to the door, second peg.

That worked on a vacumn, not compressed air.

 

[ASC1951]

Another Radio 4 factoid from this morning: Spam is very popular in S Korea.

Isn't that a fact? IIRC a factoid is something untrue which is repeated so often that people think it is true.
And spam = sp[iced] [h]am.

There, two random facts for the price of one.

 

[The Central Scrutinizer]

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

So do i but i don't use it as a rule.

 

[vernon]

So do i but i don't use it as a rule.

Are you an amputee?

 

[morrisman]

Polish is the only word in the English language that changes both its meaning and pronunciation when it is capitalised.

 

[morrisman]

I think my local Co-Op used to have one of those to shoot small items in capsules to other parts of the building by the power of compressed air.

I'll get me coat.

Called a Lamsom Tube.