Games & Recreation Pointless Trivia

[Gough]

Owsley Stanley III aka Bear, the man who cooked the acid that Hendrix was on at Montery Pop ended up an Australian citizen and died in car crash in North Queensland recently. He also developed a sound system in the 70s upon which all modern PAs are modeled.

 

[Geelong_Sicko]

Twins born 87 days apart

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/...s-apart-ireland-guiness-record_n_3186135.html

I'm not sure if they survived but I think they made it through the worst of it, so should be good.

Shit, beat the previous record of 84 days by almost half a week. Good that both babies are kicking on

 

[MarcusP2]

Nah mate, just gotta hit the ball. Not that hard.

Although I did learn you can only do two bouncers an over before they become a wide...Why?

http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/current/story/491190.html

 

[Mofra]

You can charge your mobile phone quickly and efficiently by popping it into the microwave by no longer than 90 seconds

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Owsley Stanley III aka Bear, the man who cooked the acid that Hendrix was on at Montery Pop ended up an Australian citizen and died in car crash in North Queensland recently. He also developed a sound system in the 70s upon which all modern PAs are modeled.

Wasnt future senator Bob Brown the attending doctor at the ER Hendrix was taken to?

Another pointless fact

 

[Gough]

Wasnt future senator Bob Brown the attending doctor at the ER Hendrix was taken to?

Another pointless fact

He corrected that one, he was on duty the night Hendrix came in, but didn't treat him.

 

[EdgeOfReason]

Banana plants walk up to 40 centimetres in a lifetime.


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[worbod]

In Norway there is a village named Hell. Temperatures can reach −25 °C during winter.

 

[NotAMagpieBogan]

In Norway there is a village named Hell. Temperatures can reach −25 °C during winter.

There is also a racetrack there. Last year there was the Hell World RallyCross event haha

 

[Geelong_Sicko]

In Norway there is a village named Hell. Temperatures can reach −25 °C during winter.

That's nothing. In Austria there is a village called Fucking!

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/17/austrian_village_confusion/

NOTE: I'm not swearing - this is the actual name of the village. It's pronounced 'fooking'.

 

[Dory_77]

In Norway there is a village named Hell. Temperatures can reach −25 °C during winter.

So Hell does freeze over.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

In Norway there is a village named Hell. Temperatures can reach −25 °C during winter.

There's a town in Michigan called Hell too.

 

[ioppolo]

There's also Dildo, Canada, and Swastika, Canada.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

Twelve plus one is an Anagram of eleven plus two.


111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321.

 

[Caesar]

A nautical mile is slightly longer than a normal mile as it is the approximate equivalent of one minute, measured along a meridian.

 

[The Passenger]

A nautical mile is slightly longer than a normal mile as it is the approximate equivalent of one minute, measured along a meridian.

why didn't they call it something completely different instead of confusing all us non water types?

 

[smiddy9]

You can charge your mobile phone quickly and efficiently by popping it into the microwave by no longer than 90 seconds

bullshit!!

 

[Illinois Nazi]

bullshit!!

Found out the hard way?

 

[Caesar]

It dates from a period when 'mile' was just a generic term for a unit of measurement, and there was no standard mile. A Russian mile was different to an English mile, which was different to a Roman mile or an Arab mile.

Why they didn't change the term later, I'm not sure. It's further complicated by the fact that the modern nautical mile is subdivided into metres (not yards or feet), so despite what most people assume it's not really an imperial unit at all.

 

[Simple Jack]

A standard nautical mile is 1852 meters. Didn't even need to look that up.

 

[kickazz]

On the topic of measurement, the Kilogram is the only SI unit that is still derived from a physical artifact (a hunk of metal in France somewhere) rather than a measurement of something that can be repeated (eg distance light travels in xxxxx = 1 metre).

 

[smiddy9]

Found out the hard way?

i wish, would be quite a show, hiding behind the kitchen bench!!

 

[kickazz]

The two Australian states that share the shortest land border are ........



















Victoria and Tasmania......

 

[ioppolo]

The two Australian states that share the shortest land border are ........



















Victoria and Tasmania......

And here's a picture courtesy of Google Maps.

 

[Elvis]

If you close your eyes, tilt your head back and pretend to shake a salt shaker in your mouth, you can actually taste the salt.

No one can explain this phenomenon, but it seems to work even better if you do this in public