Odd factoids

[Tim Hall]

Guerilla war supremo and US bad guy, Ho Chi Minh had a job baking cakes on the Newhaven Dieppe ferry.

 

[Dirk]

Ho Chi Minh used to smoke 80 cigarettes a day.

 

[LeetleGreyCells]

One cigarette contains 69 individual chemicals known to cause cancer.

 

[Drago]

One cigarette contains 69 individual chemicals known to cause cancer.

That's why I left that one in then pack and smoked the other 19.

 

[david k]

As long as it’s temperature is still above 71 degrees C, and remains so for long enough after you’ve opened it, for it to boil, possibly, pure water boils at 71 degrees C, at the 34 Kpa pressure on the summit of Mr Everest, I don’t know about tea contaminated water and I’m not sure many people take flasks of tea to drink all the way up there anyway.

It happened to me on mount snowdon, I got to the top, opened my flask and it immediately vapourised as it was exposed to atmospheric pressure, gutted I was

 

[david k]

Water expands by 1600 times when it turns to steam

An unvented hot water system can under fault conditions reach temperatures above 100c and remain as water as it is pressurised, that's until someone opens a tap and BOOM!!! Imagine 200litres of water expanding by 1600 times almost immediately, its goes off like a bomb blowing out walls and worse!

 

[classic33]

Think water comes in just liquid, ice and gas? ... Think again, water can exist in four different states, either as a solid, liquid, vapour or plasma.

 

[classic33]

Drinking too much water too quickly can lead to water intoxication. Water intoxication occurs when water dilutes the sodium level in the bloodstream and imbalance of water in the brain.

Water intoxication is most likely to occur during periods of performance.

 

[Drago]

Water was first drunk by the French in 1642, during the national wine shortage. 72 hours later the entire population was sober, setting in motion the chain of events that eventually led to the revolution.

 

[NorthernDave]

Double glazing was invented on the summit of Everest.

By Ted Moult but he accidentally allowed the patent to lapse and it was snapped up by Craig Doyle who owns it to this day.

 

[Dirk]

If they diluted water in the summer months, it would go further and negate the need for hosepipe bans.

 

[Andy_R]

By Ted Moult but he accidentally allowed the patent to lapse and it was snapped up by Craig Doyle who owns it to this day.

And it wasn't Everest, it was The Tan Hill Inn. With some chickens.

 

[classic33]

It takes more than twice the amount of water to produce coffee than it does tea.

 

[Drago]

A water cooled engine requires twice as air much for cooling purposes than a air cooled motor
does.

 

[NorthernDave]

Popular windscreen replacement company Autoglass was originally named after it's German founder, Otto Glass, but the name was Anglicised at the outbreak of the First World War, much like that of the royal family.