Bizarre Fact of the Day

randomhandclaps

Rolf Harris touched up Vanessa.

jd0272

underdog said:

The world's largest tyre manufacturer is Lego.

NO? Really? Wow.

VimFuego

how do they get the worlds largest tyre into the boxes?

mudslide73

I share a birthday with Shakira and Gerard Pique (they're married). So if I'd been in the vicinity you never know Knowing my luck I'd have pulled Pique..

EricTheWeary

randomhandclaps said:

Rolf Harris touched up Vanessa.

he could certainly plead insanity on that one... :ar!

underdog

jd0272;317937" said:

underdog said:

The world's largest tyre manufacturer is Lego.









NO? Really? Wow.

Really
http://aboutus.lego.com/en-gb/news-room/2012/june/guiness-world-record-to-the-lego-group/

ICBM

mudslide73 said:

I share a birthday with Shakira and Gerard Pique (they're married).

I share a birthday with King Edward VIII, Alan Turing, Stuart Sutcliffe, KT Tunstall and Maggie Philbin - among others who I found when I looked it up, including Adam Faith, Colin Montgomerie and Zinedine Zidane.

TTony

chillidoggy said:

Edit - I once laid some laminate flooring, found it was duff, ripped it up, took it all back to Homebase, exchanged it for new flooring, laid that, decided it was the wrong colour, ripped it up and threw it away, bought some new flooring, and laid that. Then the missus decided she wanted carpet instead.

So the you laid ...

... the carpet, presumably?

richardhomer

ICBM;317998" said:

mudslide73 said:I share a birthday with Shakira and Gerard Pique (they're married).I share a birthday with King Edward VIII, Alan Turing, Stuart Sutcliffe, KT Tunstall and Maggie Philbin - among others who I found when I looked it up, including Adam Faith, Colin Montgomerie and Zinedine Zidane.

Elton John and Aretha Franklin here.... (Not the same year!)

Hootsmon

john McLaughlin and ken barlow are the same cat

Hootsmon

standing on the top of mount Everest one can see the arc of the earth

mellowsun

There's more harmful bacteria on your keyboard than on your toilet seat.

ICBM

hootsmon said:

standing on the top of mount Everest one can see the arc of the earth

Also, Everest is not the tallest mountain on Earth.

Mauna Kea (the highest peak in the Hawaiian islands) is. It's just that two-thirds of it is under the Pacific Ocean.

Foster

chillidoggy said:

Edit - I once laid some laminate flooring, found it was duff, ripped it up, took it all back to Homebase, exchanged it for new flooring, laid that, decided it was the wrong colour, ripped it up and threw it away, bought some new flooring, and laid that. Then the missus decided she wanted carpet instead.

When my uncle laid the laminate flooring in our kitchen he opened the 3rd box (having laid boxes 1 and 2 previously), cut the flooring to size and holes for the radiator pipes to fit around around, laid the flooring and realised he had picked up the wrong colour by mistake. 

He then removed the wrong colour flooring, put it back in the box, shoved an untouched plank of flooring to the front of the box, took it back to B&Q and swapped it for the right colour.

We all had a good giggle at the idea of someone opening their pack of laminate flooring to find it pre-cut to fit their kitchen :P

chrispy108

ICBM said:

hootsmon said:

standing on the top of mount Everest one can see the arc of the earth

Also, Everest is not the tallest mountain on Earth.

Mauna Kea (the highest peak in the Hawaiian islands) is. It's just that two-thirds of it is under the Pacific Ocean.

And as the Earth isn't round, Everest also isn't the furthest point from the surface of the Earth. The summit of Chimborazo in Ecuador is 2,168m further than Everest, nearly a quarter of Everest's height above sea-level.

Foster

chrispy108 said:

ICBM said:

hootsmon said:

standing on the top of mount Everest one can see the arc of the earth

Also, Everest is not the tallest mountain on Earth.

Mauna Kea (the highest peak in the Hawaiian islands) is. It's just that two-thirds of it is under the Pacific Ocean.

And as the Earth isn't round, Everest also isn't the furthest point from the surface of the Earth. The summit of Chimborazo in Ecuador is 2,168m further than Everest, nearly a quarter of Everest's height above sea-level.

Yeah, you might want to try retyping that...

The earth could be any shape if you're only bothered about the mountain being the furthest point from the surface of the Earth. It could even be the shape of a string of sausages.

Foster

Actually thinking on it, it's not possible for any mountain to hold the title of 'furthest point from the surface of the Earth'. Since you would have to start counting from the summit of the mountain - they are all equally the same height of 0mm.

ICBM

I think he means from the *centre* of the Earth.

Bellycaster

mellowsun said:

There's more harmful bacteria on your keyboard than on your toilet seat.

I'm glad I play Guitar then ;-)

Ok, here we go. the last execution in France using the Guillotine, was in September 1977.

:-O

chrispy108

ICBM said:

I think he means from the *centre* of the Earth.

Doh! Indeed I do. I blame the head-cold I've got, but it's probably just general incompetence