Games & Recreation Pointless Trivia

[cats_09]

 

[cats_09]

Italy's record at the last six World Cups:

2006 - Champions
2010 - Out at the group stage
2014 - Out at the group stage
2018 - Did not qualify
2022 - Did not qualify
2026 - Did not qualify

 

[Billy ray]

Thats karma for cheating in 2006
Whole of australia put a curse on them.

 

[Gough]

It's still funnier when England lose.

 

[cats_09]

It's still funnier when England lose.

What about combining the two - Italy qualified for the 2010 & 2014 tournaments and won a single match across both group stages, with a 2-1 victory over England

 

[Butters and Pepper]

I read somewhere recently that the odds of any given individual person being born, are about 1 in 400 trillion.

 

[GreyCrow]

I read somewhere recently that the odds of any given individual person being born, are about 1 in 400 trillion.

''go back its a blowjob''

 

[the_interloper]

The shortest song ever is "You Suffer" by Napalm Death, it goes for 1.316 seconds. Here they are performing it live

 

[emuboy]

Last weekend was obviously Easter for countries that celebrate it according to the dates of the Catholic and other Western Christian churches, and it will be Easter this coming weekend for countries that observe it according to the Eastern Orthodox churches.

Most usually, the Eastern Orthodox Easter will fall later than the Western dates for Easter, sometimes as late as May. This is due to variances in the adaptation of the dates when changing from the Julian to Gregorian calendar, although sometimes both Easters will align on the same date range. This happened in 2025, and will happen again in 2028.

It is extremely rare for an Orthodox Easter to fall before a Western Easter, with the last time it happened in 1986. Just why this happened I could not determine, and it seems odd as Easter Sunday for the Western churches was March 30th that year, reasonably early. I also could not find other years when this occurred prior to 1986, nor the next year it is going to happen.

 

[cats_09]

After the Titanic sank in 1912, the U.S. government passed the Seamen’s Act of 1915. It required every passenger ship to carry enough lifeboats and rafts for every single person on board, a law meant to prevent another tragedy.

The SS Eastland, a Great Lakes steamer that had always been notoriously top-heavy, was quickly retrofitted with extra wooden lifeboats, heavy steel davits, and life rafts mounted high on her upper decks.

On the morning of July 24, 1915, more than 2,500 Western Electric employees and their families boarded the Eastland in Chicago for a company picnic. As people crowded onto the upper decks to wave goodbye to friends on the pier, the ship began to list.

While still tied to the dock in just 20 feet of water, the Eastland slowly rolled completely onto its port side.

Hundreds were trapped below deck or crushed by sliding furniture. 844 people died, more actual passengers than perished on the Titanic itself.

The very safety equipment added to save lives had instead made the ship so unstable that it capsized before it could even leave the dock.

 

[GreyCrow]

Hundreds were trapped below deck or crushed by sliding furniture. 844 people died, more actual passengers than perished on the Titanic itself.

The very safety equipment added to save lives had instead made the ship so unstable that it capsized before it could even leave the dock.

I wasnt sure this statement was right so I looked

Approximately 1,500 people died when the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic on April 15, 1912, out of roughly 2,200 passengers and crew, making it one of the deadliest maritime disasters. The majority of victims died from exposure to freezing water rather than drowning, and only about 337 bodies were recovered, representing roughly one in five victims.

 

[cats_09]

I wasnt sure this statement was right so I looked

Approximately 1,500 people died when the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic on April 15, 1912, out of roughly 2,200 passengers and crew, making it one of the deadliest maritime disasters. The majority of victims died from exposure to freezing water rather than drowning, and only about 337 bodies were recovered, representing roughly one in five victims.

It'll be interesting to know where that figure came from

 

[GreyCrow]

It'll be interesting to know where that figure came from

Titanic or Eastland?

I assume the Titanic figures would have been passengers rescued and possible bookings?

Still leaves a 700 figure difference and I dont think thats overbooking

 

[cats_09]

Titanic or Eastland?

I assume the Titanic figures would have been passengers rescued and possible bookings?

Still leaves a 700 figure difference and I dont think thats overbooking

The Eastland

I wonder if they were trying to work it out as a percentage or something, but even then the Titanic would still seem higher

 

[emuboy]

I wasnt sure this statement was right so I looked

Approximately 1,500 people died when the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic on April 15, 1912, out of roughly 2,200 passengers and crew, making it one of the deadliest maritime disasters. The majority of victims died from exposure to freezing water rather than drowning, and only about 337 bodies were recovered, representing roughly one in five victims.

One question that has often been asked about the Titanic is did sharks prey or scavenge upon any of the victims who ended up in the sea? I saw a Youtube video about this very subject last year, and it was interesting to say the least.

For the most part no, sharks that are dangerous to humans - Great white sharks, tiger, bull and hammerhead sharks - would have found the North Atlantic waters in which the Titanic sank way too cold, so would not have been in the area to attack or scavenge victims of the disaster, unlike the USS Indianapolis which sank in far warmer water during WW2.

However there is one species of shark that calls this area of the sea home - the Greenland shark. Although potentially large enough to attack a human they never do, preferring to scavenge from the dead bodies or both marine and terrestrial animals in the sea. So potentially, some Titanic victims bodies may have been eaten by Greenland sharks. But here's where things get really interesting. The Greenland shark - which is poisonous to people and most other land-dwelling animals - lives about 400 or 500 years, the longest lifespan of any vertebrate. This means that there might be some Greenland sharks swimming around the North Atlantic since the 1700s who snacked on a Titanic victim or two when the ship sank in 1912 - and still swimming happily in the frigid water to this very day and will continue to do so for a century or two more.

 

[ioppolo]

One question that has often been asked about the Titanic is did sharks prey or scavenge upon any of the victims who ended up in the sea? I saw a Youtube video about this very subject last year, and it was interesting to say the least.

For the most part no, sharks that are dangerous to humans - Great white sharks, tiger, bull and hammerhead sharks - would have found the North Atlantic waters in which the Titanic sank way too cold, so would not have been in the area to attack or scavenge victims of the disaster, unlike the USS Indianapolis which sank in far warmer water during WW2.

However there is one species of shark that calls this area of the sea home - the Greenland shark. Although potentially large enough to attack a human they never do, preferring to scavenge from the dead bodies or both marine and terrestrial animals in the sea. So potentially, some Titanic victims bodies may have been eaten by Greenland sharks. But here's where things get really interesting. The Greenland shark - which is poisonous to people and most other land-dwelling animals - lives about 400 or 500 years, the longest lifespan of any vertebrate. This means that there might be some Greenland sharks swimming around the North Atlantic since the 1700s who snacked on a Titanic victim or two when the ship sank in 1912 - and still swimming happily in the frigid water to this very day and will continue to do so for a century or two more.

Theoretically, a Greenland shark who might've munched away on a Titanic victim's body could've also swam the same waters Columbus was sailing at the same time as him.

 

[Forward Press]

In a similar vein, the one I always hear on the internet is a samurai could have sent a fax to Abraham Lincoln.

All three were around during the 1850s and 1860s.

 

[sherb]

There's no such thing as pointless trivia.

 

[the_interloper]

There's no such thing as pointless trivia.

What about this: I’ve gotten the exact same park at my local shopping centre two days in a row.

 

[sherb]

What about this: I’ve gotten the exact same park at my local shopping centre two days in a row.

That's sensational!

 

[Nothing]

What about this: I’ve gotten the exact same park at my local shopping centre two days in a row.

Only took 3 hours of waiting to get it too.

 

[Mofra]

What about this: I’ve gotten the exact same park at my local shopping centre two days in a row.

"All it took was a piece of paper and a blue texta"

 

[Moonwatcher]

The $20 mum spent in 1995 buying the VHS copy of Alien Autopsy fact or fiction narrated by Jonathan Frakes would now be worth $43.89.

 

[Moonwatcher]

It is of course not easy to send spacecraft to any planet, minor planet or moon but from physics alone it is easier to send a probe to Pluto rather than the much closer Mercury.

Stability of orbit?

 

[Moonwatcher]

My mum was born in 33.

My nan was born 11/22/33 in the American system of writing the date. 30th birthday was the JFK assassination.