Odd factoids

[Dave7]

In the meeting to determine this they all agreed that a mile was 6,710 yards but typical of politicians....when the speaker of the house announced the decision he was p***ed and misread it.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

The 1593 act didn't apply to country miles or in Ireland.

 

[Drago]

Just as the pound used to be 85 Euros, a mile used to be 27.3 kilometres.

 

[Dave7]

The 1593 act didn't apply to country miles or in Ireland.

Ireland wasn't invented until 1785

 

[Drago]

Ireland was so unsuccessful that 1785 was written out of the history books.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Ireland wasn't invented until 1785

Distance wasn't invented until after the railroads. Prior to that places were either "near" or "far away".

 

[classic33]

Distance wasn't invented until after the railroads. Prior to that places were either "near" or "far away".

Railways standardised times.

Get rid of railways.

 

[classic33]

The first Air Disaster in History happened on the 10th May 1785 –a hot air balloon collided with a chimney in Tullamore, County Offaly, setting light to around 100 houses in the town centre.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Cycle surveys are like black holes. Once answers cross the event horizon they are never seen again. Some speculate that the answers escape as Hawkings radition so no information is destroyed. This has yet to be observed.

 

[colly]

The deepest hole ever drilled into the earth surface was near Murmansk.

It reached a depth of 12,262 metres (40,230 ft; 7.619 miles) It reached that depth in 1989. Drilling was only stopped because faint strains of music were detected at that depth. They would have carried on but the music was the Eastenders theme tune.

 

[Drago]

Jumbo jets are so big, pilots have to account for the weight of the air inside the aircraft when calculating fuel loads etc. The volume of air alone within the pressurised part of the fuselage weighs over a tonne.

 

[classic33]

Air pressure pushes down on the top of your head with a force of roughly 2000 Newtons, equal to the weight of almost 500 pounds. At sea level.

 

[bruce1530]

Jumbo Jets are so called because they were originally designed to transport elephants.

 

[Threevok]

The B52 bomber was named after a famous group and was originally designed to drop giant shellfish made of stone

 

[Drago]

The famous B52's song, the rock lobster, was inspired by the lead singers bad dose of the bum grapes.