Useless Facts And Information Thread

Regarding the earth sandwich, there is a website to help you.

https://www.antipodesmap.com/

The UK's antipode is in the ocean south-east of New Zealand, however years ago I thought about it when I was in Lima. Opposite Lima is a village on the border between Cambodia and Thailand.

 

If you passed gas consistently for six years and nine months, you would produce enough gas to create an atomic bomb's energy.

 

Santiago, Cape Town and Sydney are all on almost exactly the same degree latitude. I always thought Cape Town was much further north and Sydney much further south. Maybe just me then....

 

Glasgow is further west than Plymouth.

 

Dogs can't look up

 

How do you explain the fact that my previous dog was terrified of hot air balloons?

 

Because it's not a fact at all.
https://chasingtails.store/blogs/tips/dogs-cant-look-up

 

...or your dog lay on his back to see it everytime he heard an air balloon ?
....or he'd never seen one but was scared of the noise of the burner

 

... you should have let him travel with you in the basket rather than hanging by his lead?

 

You're kidding. I'm terrified of heights!

 

Still on the Earth sandwich topic here is a better image



It's incredible how little land is an antipode to land, practically none of Africa (save for a few islands like Tonga et al), none of Australia, none of North America apart from the far north of Canada which is opposite some of Antarctica (which itself only also has antipodes with most of Greenland and bits of Siberia; apart from half of Spain with New Zealand, none of Europe. So the only significant land antipodes are between half of South America and a chunk of South East Asia.

 

I thought this thread was about facts?

 

^^^Ahem

 

perspective.

@Keighley you're welcome

 

When I was a kid I received a book for Christmas called "Gorillas can't swim" full of useless facts.

The only two I remember are...

1. It's illegal to eat snakes in Iraq on Sundays

2. The spiritualist Amy Semple McPherson was buried with a live telephone in her coffin.

This is the first occasion I've had to use those facts in 50 years, so thanks Skyla!

 

Charles Rolls (as in Rolls-Royce) was the first Briton to die in a powered aircraft accident.

 

Absolutely. He died in 1910, but it was his finance and rich contacts that set up Henry Royce - the engineer in the partnership.

 

Alfred Bird invented egg-free custard powder because his wife couldn’t eat eggs.

 

If you go to the top of Clent Hill, 10 miles Southwest of Birmingham city centre, you’ll be at an elevation of just over 1000 feet. If you go due east from there, you won’t encounter anywhere that high until you get to the Ural Mountains in Russia.

 

I never knew that either despite working for Rolls-Royce for 38 years! As for the company, by the time I left it was a very different beast to work for compared with the one I joined.

 

In the late 18th century a lieutenant in the Royal Artillery invented an anti-personnel shell which exploded after firing, showering shards of metal on its targets. His name was Henry Shrapnel.

 

I was down at Hengistbury, where Charles Rolls died, at the weekend and stayed in Mudeford Quays. There's a memorial to him there. It was an air show a few weeks after he'd made the first non-stop there-and-back double crossing of the English Channel. Apparently he was taking part in a spot landing competition, which I gather is when you have to put the plane down as close to a marker as possible, when a bit of the plane broke off.

 

That's a myth

 

Contrary to popular belief, @wfcmoog has less than 20 live logins on the WFCForums website.

 

*fewer
*2

 

They can't actually do any CMD prompts.

 

Shell is called Shell, because it was initially set up to import and sell shells.

It only later started to use its infrastructure to import oil and then switched.

 

This actually happened today in the office...

Nepalese people will never hand chillies to each other. They must be put down and picked up by the other person.

 

What are the chances of that?!

Pilates were invented by Joseph Pilates.
Burpees were invented by Royal Burpee.
Hack Squats were invented by George Hackenschmidt.

Dr. Oliver Crossfit, however, did not invent anything.

 

Not a big Shaun of the Dead crowd huh