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Re: Useless facts
Posted: Wed May 20, 2020 9:38 pm
by Ronnie Hotdogs
StillSpike wrote: ↑Wed May 20, 2020 9:14 pm
There are more tigers in captivity in the USA than in the wild in the rest of the world.
I blame Carole f*cking Baskin
Re: Useless facts
Posted: Wed May 20, 2020 10:04 pm
by StillSpike
A sloth can hold its breath for 40 minutes which is longer than a dolphin can
Thanks to QI
Re: Useless facts
Posted: Wed May 20, 2020 10:43 pm
by faldO
StillSpike wrote: ↑Wed May 20, 2020 9:14 pm
There are more tigers in captivity in the USA than in the wild in the rest of the world.
I'd file that under "tragic" rather than "useless".
Re: Useless facts
Posted: Thu May 21, 2020 10:38 am
by PutneyO
Edvard Beneš, second President of Czechoslovakia, lived in Gwendolen Avenue, Putney during his exile in London from October 1938 to the end of World War II
Re: Useless facts
Posted: Thu May 21, 2020 2:49 pm
by Omygawd
Cleanliness is next to Godliness, at least it is in a cheap dictionary.
Re: Useless facts
Posted: Sun May 24, 2020 2:50 pm
by Dunners
Racecar spelt backwards, is spelt racecar.
Re: Useless facts
Posted: Sun May 24, 2020 2:57 pm
by Celtient
StillSpike wrote: ↑Wed May 20, 2020 10:04 pm
A sloth can hold its breath for 40 minutes which is longer than a dolphin can
Thanks to QI
Sloths will also sometimes eat their own sh*t.
In other news, an alligator which Adolf Hitler visited in a Berlin zoo in 1938, died yesterday in Moscow
Re: Useless facts
Posted: Sun May 24, 2020 3:43 pm
by tuffers#1
Aligators have U shaped snouts
Crodiles have a V shaped snout .
Re: Useless facts
Posted: Sun May 24, 2020 5:01 pm
by Dunners
Re: Useless facts
Posted: Sun May 24, 2020 5:44 pm
by point nine one eight
tuffers#1 wrote: ↑Sun May 24, 2020 3:43 pm
Aligators have U shaped snouts
Crodiles have a V shaped snout .
Some where in my dim and distance past I knew that, unfortunately that past is getting longer
Re: Useless facts
Posted: Sun May 24, 2020 7:51 pm
by slacker
@dunners world locations by latitude map ^.
It always amazes me how far north we are in the UK compared to the other continents. Basically, the Canadian tundra to the west and Siberian permafrost to the east. So, praise be to the Gulf Stream making our lives a bit more tolerably temperate...if slightly damp, I guess.
Re: Useless facts
Posted: Sun May 24, 2020 10:36 pm
by Paddy Grealish
Disneyland in Anaheim, California, has more public lavatories than Latvia.
Re: Useless facts
Posted: Mon May 25, 2020 10:15 am
by Disoriented
Paddy Grealish wrote: ↑Sun May 24, 2020 10:36 pm
Disneyland in Anaheim, California, has more public lavatories than Latvia.
Not as many as Tunbridge Wells though the last time I had a night out there.
Re: Useless facts
Posted: Mon May 25, 2020 10:28 am
by slacker
Sadly most are either closed or demolished now, Dissy. Just 2 left outside of the shopping centre now. Which is a shame: a well kept public loo always seems a measure of a good, civilised society to me. Mind you, all the surrounding villages seem to have one (currently closed, of course) and generally they are kept very spick and span.
Re: Useless facts
Posted: Mon May 25, 2020 10:31 am
by Disoriented
slacker wrote: ↑Mon May 25, 2020 10:28 am
Sadly most are either closed or demolished now, Dissy. Just 2 left outside of the shopping centre now. Which is a shame: a well kept public loo always seems a measure of a good, civilised society to me. Mind you, all the surrounding villages seem to have one (currently closed, of course) and generally they are kept very spick and span.
Glad to hear other parts are more dignified.
The youth in TW need educating on public hygiene though.
Re: Useless facts
Posted: Tue May 26, 2020 12:41 am
by PutneyO
There have been 36,914 deaths from Coronavirus out of the UK's population of 66,000,000, that's 0.05%.
To show these stats in a way we can all relate to, 0.05% of an Orient crowd of 6,000 is three
Or 0.05% of a Wembley crowd of 90,000 is 45
Re: Useless facts
Posted: Tue May 26, 2020 1:16 am
by tuffers#1
U.S.A pop'tion 328.22 m corona dead 99,459
U.K pop'tion 66 m corona dead 36,914
Brazil pop'tion 205 m corona dead 23, 473
Russia pop'tion 144m corona dead 3,633
Uk with a relatively small population is only behind the U.S .
https://www.google.com/search?ei=FF3MXo ... s-wiz-serp
Re: Useless facts
Posted: Tue May 26, 2020 9:00 am
by NuneatonO's
What do we share with Carlisle F.C?
They are the other team to have two Wyverns on their Club Crest.
Re: Useless facts
Posted: Tue May 26, 2020 10:10 am
by HeyO
NuneatonO's wrote: ↑Tue May 26, 2020 9:00 am
What do we share with Carlisle F.C?
They are the other team to have two Wyverns on their Club Crest.
Jabo Ibehre regrets?