odd facts section

[Seedy_r0m]

Interesting fact #1
As soon as I withdraw cold hard folding cash and store it in my wallet, my wife and boys can sniff it out immediately and proceed to hoover it up.

Interesting fact #2 (and more relevant in todays day & age)
If you turn your analogue watch/clock upside down during GMT, it's the same in time in India.
e.g at this precise moment it's 19:19 in UK, but in Mumbai it's 23:49.

You're welcome

 

[miggy]

Interesting fact #1
As soon as I withdraw cold hard folding cash and store it in my wallet, my wife and boys can sniff it out immediately and proceed to hoover it up.

Interesting fact #2 (and more relevant in todays day & age)
If you turn your analogue watch/clock upside down during GMT, it's the same in time in India.
e.g at this precise moment it's 19:19 in UK, but in Mumbai it's 23:49.

You're welcome

Fact #3 Where have you been hiding seedy?.

 

[chookey]

Fact #4, his Interesting fact #2 is flawed.
Answers on a postcard please and the winner get's a Blue Peter badge

 

[Seedy_r0m]

Or is it BST?

 

[chookey]

Or is it BST?

Upside down watch at 19-19 would show 00-49 and not 23-49. The 00-49 however would be the correct time in Mumbai during GMT as there is a 5 and a half hours difference.

 

[dar1437]

The numbering of a standard dartboard is designed in such a way as to cut down the incidence of ‘lucky shots’ and reduce the element of chance. The numbers are placed in such a way as to encourage accuracy. That’s it. Pure and simple. The placing of small numbers either side of large numbers e.g. 1 and 5 either side of 20, 3 and 2 either side of 17, 4 and 1 either side of 18, punishes inaccuracy. Thus, if you shoot for the 20 segment, the penalty for lack of accuracy or concentration is to land in either a 1 or a 5.
There are 2,432,902,008,176,640,000 different possible arrangements of the 20 segments on a standard dartboard so it is perhaps a little surprising that Gamlin’s arrangement of the numbers is almost perfect.

 

[nara]

Fact #3 Where have you been hiding seedy?.

Some questions are best left unanswered.

Odd Fact: One third of all the airports in the world are located in the U.S.A.

(Welcome back Seedy)

 

[miggy]

Some questions are best left unanswered. View attachment 123218

Odd Fact: One third of all the airports in the world are located in the U.S.A.

(Welcome back Seedy)

 

[Seedy_r0m]

You never truly appreciate a well designed wash hand basin until you can plonk your Frank & Beans in it without getting on your tip-toes to reach it.
I've just moved house (flitted). Livin' the dream folks

 

[miggy]

You never truly appreciate a well designed wash hand basin until you can plonk your Frank & Beans in it without getting on your tip-toes to reach it.
I've just moved house (flitted). Livin' the dream folks

Today's money saving tip of the day: Never dingle your dangle in hot water and wash your toothbrush after scrubbing.

 

[janciSK]

Coca Cola was in the world war was for american soldiers and Fanta was for german soldiers

 

[river4ever]

The word “shit” is most mislead word in that context.
“shit” most if not all believe it means... Ship High In Transit.

So when you sit on a toilet and have a shit. Others may call it a “crap” but Thomas Crapper was well known in inventing or promoting the ball cock that flushes your shit away like a ship in transit.

In a nut shell.
Shit= Ship High In Transit
Crap= Tom Crapper

You never forget the shit you were taught when you were young.
Strange.... but true.

 

[nolansi]

only 3 us presidents gave all their presidential salary to charity.

Herbert Hoover
JFK
Trump

(obama donated over $1mil to charity but was paid his salary)

 

[nolansi]

S for superman right???

Nope! Its the Kryptonian symbol for hope, that just happens to look like an S.
(thanks to QI for that!)

 

[evilduk1]

Did you know that a Shark can only bite you if its wet

 

[chookey]

Did you know that a Shark can only bite you if its wet

Living in the sea tends to have that effect.

 

[Spanner_One]

Hello,
Just learn this one:
Long time ago in England if I'm not wrong, we use to see some "houses" with the initials of "Fornication Under Control of the King"
Bye!

 

[dannsavi]

Ill tell you what I want to know...........................
where did the word hence originate

is there an answere to this!

 

[dannsavi]

was his na,e crapper
I love finding out were terms came from.

Like the Term Crapper, meaning toilet. Only called that because of the inventors name!


There is one thats always puzzled me, and i think i have a soloution to it but will wait and see what you guys come up with.

"No good deed goes unpunished"

 

[Mr_Bean]

How about a odd facts section?

Such as, by January 15th 2018, we will have an extra 30 minutes of daylight since December 21st 2017 shortest day.

(This is inspiration info for me, as this darkness gets me down lol)

the curtains will fade now hahaha