Author Topic: Somewhat Useful Facts Thread (Read 220764 times)

JimmyB76 · « **Reply #1340 on:** August 15, 2009, 12:06:25 PM »

Quote from: Nebula on August 15, 2009, 10:19:38 AM

Rly?? I didn't know we couldn't comment on a fact..... (it's been done this way for ages)

there is a difference between the occasional comment, and spamming... you of all people should know the concept of spamming, spamula; dont question me :arms:

contrary to popular belief, putting sugar in a car's gas tank will not ruin its engine....

1DeadlySAMURAI · « **Reply #1341 on:** August 15, 2009, 01:53:21 PM »

Because metal was scarce during world war 2, the Oscars given out was made of plaster.

Quote from: JimmyB76 on August 15, 2009, 12:06:25 PM

contrary to popular belief, putting sugar in a car's gas tank will not ruin its engine....

Yeah, I saw that on mythbusters.

King Class Scout · « **Reply #1342 on:** August 15, 2009, 05:09:30 PM »

The Soviet Union was working on a Shuttle before its collapse

Nebula · « **Reply #1343 on:** August 15, 2009, 05:32:09 PM »

That shuttle was built and tested.... atm it sits outside and is degrading...
This Russian shuttle was almost a direct copy of the American shuttle.
The Russian Shuttle's name is the Buran (or Snowstorm).
Also the Russian shuttle's air transport is the largest transport aircraft ever built...

here they be (2 pics)

If you are getting a 404 here

Senator · « **Reply #1344 on:** August 15, 2009, 05:49:42 PM »

A lot of the nuclear bombers of the 50s-60s are painted white, not because it's a pretty colour, but because it was supposed to reflect some of the thermal radiation of a nuclear explosion (which presumably, would be going on, all around the place).

Similarly (I know the British did this, I don't know if everyone did so), bomber pilots were supposed to fly their bombers with an eyepatch, pirate style. The idea is that if a nearby nuclear explosion blinded them, they could always switch to the other eye.

JimmyB76 · « **Reply #1345 on:** August 16, 2009, 12:08:42 AM »

your heart pumps about 2,000 gallons of blood each day...

eclipse74569 · « **Reply #1346 on:** August 16, 2009, 12:20:03 AM »

1 in 2000 babies are born with a tooth that is already visible.

captain_obvious · « **Reply #1347 on:** August 16, 2009, 09:40:23 AM »

Quote from: eclipse74569 on August 16, 2009, 12:20:03 AM

1 in 2000 babies are born with a tooth that is already visible.

I was one of those with a tooth already showing

The fiat punto is notorious amongst the mechanics community for being an absolute bitch to work with/on. As I found out to my cost trying to repair my wipers and the speakers in the drivers side door.
It was an exercise in frustration!

Senator · « **Reply #1348 on:** August 17, 2009, 04:15:37 PM »

Philips is a Dutch brand.

(Hey, quite a few people seem not to know that. Everyone knows Nokia as Finnish. IKEA as Swedish and Philips as American or something)

MLeo · « **Reply #1349 on:** August 17, 2009, 04:38:29 PM »

Phillips started out making lightbulbs in a shed in Eindhoven, then a tiny church town that soon usurped its neighbouring villages into what it is now the city of Eindhoven.

I'm just not so sure you could count Eindhoven as being truely Dutch these days. ;)

USS Frontier · « **Reply #1350 on:** August 17, 2009, 04:41:29 PM »

And in the game Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway, you got to enter/bomb the phillips building in Eindhoven

JimmyB76 · « **Reply #1351 on:** August 17, 2009, 10:52:48 PM »

none of the Beatles knew how to read music (Paul McCartney eventually taught himself)...

RifleMan80 · « **Reply #1352 on:** August 17, 2009, 11:20:18 PM »

Did you know that the cast of Star Trek Enterprise was the only Trek cast in history never to be changed ( added a member, or having a member leave before series end )?

JimmyB76 · « **Reply #1353 on:** August 19, 2009, 12:17:03 PM »

today in history: August 19, 1991

Hurricane Bob slams into the Southern New England coastline as a category 2 storm with sustained winds of 100 mph. It made landfall twice on Rhode Island: at 1:30 p.m. on Block Island, then at 2 p.m. over Newport. The storm cut a path across southeastern Massachusetts and then into the Gulf of Maine.
The storm eventually traveled across the Atlantic Ocean and wound up off the coast of Spain. Hurricane Bob was the eighth costliest U.S. mainland hurricane with total damage estimated at $2.8 billion. A total of 18 deaths were attributed to this hurricane.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Bob
http://www.hurricanes-blizzards-noreasters.com/HURRICANEBOB.html
http://www.stormpulse.com/hurricane-bob-1991

Armondikov · « **Reply #1354 on:** August 21, 2009, 09:12:18 PM »

Ooh, I've got one (well, possibly many useless facts at the moment but one at a time).

The second HD-switcher (the thing that lets you stream HD movies over the net and cut between cameras live or something, I can't remember, but it's an essential piece of kit for HD transmission over the net) ever made was actually owned and used by a porn company. The same company actually pioneered most high-resolution video streaming and distrubution long before - well, in internet terms probably a year or two - mainstream media sites did, offering high-quality files while CNN was still only offering tiny clips at a resolution best described as piss-poor even by the standards of the day.

Dalek · « **Reply #1355 on:** August 23, 2009, 01:29:12 PM »

Sports fact:

England has won The Ashes!

limey BSc. · « **Reply #1356 on:** August 25, 2009, 07:04:29 AM »

Arcncidog to a rrscaeeh at Cmargbdie Uivtienrsy, it dseon't matter in waht oderr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iapomtrnt thing is taht the fsrit and last lteter be at the rgiht pcale. The rest can be a ttaol mses and you can stlil read it wuoitht pmreblos. Tihs is bcaesue the human mnid deos not read eervy lteter by itslef, but the word as a wohle...

Nebula · « **Reply #1357 on:** August 25, 2009, 09:21:21 AM »

You missed human and read in that little point... XD

Dalek · « **Reply #1358 on:** August 25, 2009, 09:23:33 AM »

Eevn I kenw taht. I kenw taht aegs ago. And way bfreoe taht MSN sircpt.

@Neb: lol

limey BSc. · « **Reply #1359 on:** August 25, 2009, 09:31:32 AM »

Quote from: Dalek on August 25, 2009, 09:23:33 AM

Eevn I kenw taht. I kenw taht aegs ago. And way bfreoe taht MSN sircpt.

@Neb: lol

I've known about it much longer than the MSN script too. Doesn't stop me posting it though

Quote from: Nebula on August 25, 2009, 09:21:21 AM

You missed human and read in that little point... XD

No I didn't. The first and last letters are in the right place, and the correct letters are there. Therefore I didn't miss them

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