Games & Recreation Pointless Trivia

[raskolnikov]

In contrast, is the 'Eagles' nickname one of the most prevalent in top level global sport?

Tigers would be up there.

Tigers (sports teams) - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[emuboy]

Actors depart TV shows for many different reasons, but the reason for the late Australian actress Sophie Heathcote leaving the police drama 'Water Rats' in the late 1990s was most unusual. Sophie's role was as a police officer on the patrol boat in Sydney Harbour, but only found out when the show was in production in its first season in 1996 that she suffered from terrible sea-sickness. The problem was so bad that when Water Rats returned for its second season in 1997 her character Fiona was only seen on land, before departing the show a few episodes in.

 

[chunkylover]

He does sound like a real jerk. Like that guy who used to kill people and eat them.

The same guy who used to make a living under the queensborough bridge jerking off punks for 15 dollars a man?

 

[74561347]

The same guy who used to make a living under the queensborough bridge jerking off punks for 15 dollars a man?

is he still there?

and if he is usually what time

 

[MarcMaverick]

Tigers would be up there.

Tigers (sports teams) - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

In the VFL two teams were called the Tigers, Coburg and Werribee.

Only difference IIRC 'burg were aligned with Richmond and 'bee were semi-aligned with North, whose other alignment was with the Port Melbourne Boroughs(whom I mistakenly thought were aligned with Melbourne) .

 

[PT Bar None]

In the VFL two teams were called the Tigers, Coburg and Werribee.

Only difference IIRC 'burg were aligned with Richmond and 'bee were semi-aligned with North, whose other alignment was with the Port Melbourne Boroughs(whom I mistakenly thought were aligned with Melbourne) .

Coburg are back to being "The Lions" again, aren't they?

All of this VFA->VFL->AFL Reserves has ruined some of the VFA lineage. What were Box Hill previously? Mustangs?

 

[Engimal v3]

Despite years of constant reruns, there are only 18 episodes of M*A*S*H.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

Despite years of constant reruns, there are only 18 episodes of M*A*S*H.

I didn't know that.

Kinda like how I didn't know until a few years ago about Fawlty Towers' short tenure.

 

[brucetiki]

In the VFL two teams were called the Tigers, Coburg and Werribee.

Only difference IIRC 'burg were aligned with Richmond and 'bee were semi-aligned with North, whose other alignment was with the Port Melbourne Boroughs(whom I mistakenly thought were aligned with Melbourne) .

And there’s still two Tigers in the VFL (Werribee and Richmond).

Werribee is one of the few ‘Tigers’ clubs that don’t use Tigerland as their club song (their song is to the tune of the marine hymn Adelaide uses)

 

[PatonsSnapChat]

Despite years of constant reruns, there are only 18 episodes of M*A*S*H.

garbage there is over 250 episodes of mash from a decade long initial run.

 

[Hawk Dork]

garbage there is over 250 episodes of mash from a decade long initial run.

it definitely seems like just 18 though

 

[Forward Press]

garbage there is over 250 episodes of mash from a decade long initial run.

 

[Cuzz09]

me too... I dont get it

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[Nothing]

I think the implication might have been that all the episodes boil down to being very similar.

 

[Mofra]

I didn't know that.

Kinda like how I didn't know until a few years ago about Fawlty Towers' short tenure.

That was a joke.
There were 255 episodes of MASH.

 

[troybe]

This is the first day both the Sheffield Shield (1892) and County Championship (1890) have been played on the same day!


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[FRUMPY]

Step son has a fact book and comes up with some good ones - 'did you know dynamite contains peanuts''

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[GreyCrow]

Step son has a fact book and comes up with some good ones - 'did you know dynamite contains peanuts''

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So its not good for you if you have a peanut allergy

 

[Hawk Dork]

Sperm whale oil in a nuclear bomb



The oil of the sperm whale is the essential ingredient needed to make a uranium bomb.
In a uranium bomb, there are 2 lumps of uranium.
Each lump is almost, but not quite, big enough to explode by itself. The lumps of uranium are arranged like 2 pistons in a cylinder.
When the 2 pistons of uranium are shoved together at high speed, they "go critical" and explode to give that familiar mushroom cloud.


Now if you want to score a few mega-deaths, you need the right lubricant for the job.
First, it has to give a slippery low-friction film between the cylinder wall and the speeding pistons of uranium.
Second, it can't dry out, even after many years of waiting.
No synthetic oil can do the job.
The only oil is the oil of the sperm whale. But sperm whales haven't been killed for years.
So the nuclear powers have hundreds of litres of the sperm whale oil stashed away.

NUKES, WHALES & DIFFS

Karl Trek

www.abc.net.au

Nuclear bomb tests helped us work out the age of the Whale Shark

Through radioactive isotopes in its vertebrae

Cold War nuclear bomb tests reveal true age of whale sharks

Cold War nuclear bomb tests reveal true age of whale sharks The radioactive legacy of the arms race solves a mystery about the world’s largest fish. Atomic bomb tests conducted during the Cold War have helped scientists for the first time correctly determine the age of whale sharks.

www.scimex.org

 

[PT Bar None]

My favourite bizarre nuclear weapon "fact" is the Blue Peacock nuclear mine, which was deployed with a chicken inside to keep the electronics warm in freezing soviet conditions.

Blue Peacock - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Hawk Dork]

Russia has a larger surface area than Pluto.




Pluto never made a full orbit around the sun from the time it was discovered to when it was declassified as a planet.

It rains diamonds on Saturn and Jupiter.

 

[Hawk Dork]

Betty White is actually older than sliced bread.

 

[Hawk Dork]

A strawberry isn't a berry but a banana is.

Humans share 50% of their DNA with bananas.

 

[Hawk Dork]

There is 10 times more bacteria in your body than actual body cells.

And 90% of the cells that make us up of aren't human but mostly fungi and bacteria.

 

[emuboy]

The music video for the catchy late 1980s song 'Stand' by REM features some scenes of a team of four dancers dancing on a compass.

Yet never once do the dancers face the same direction to match the directions in the lyrics of the song. For example, the dancers are facing South during the line, 'Stand in the place where you live, now face North' and they turn to the West.' They are then dancing to the North, and at the line 'face West', they turn to face East. This pattern continues throughout.