QI - Post something that's Quite Interesting.

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

A bullet dropped from shoulder height and a bullet fired from a rifle on a completely level trajectory at exactly the same height will both hit the ground at the same time.

Nobody ever believes this despite the law of gravity.

 

[Nottseagull]

Why would a zebra be born with spots

It wouldn't, but it's slightly more interesting than

Most cornflakes come from the USA.

 

[Easy 10]

My add insists that if you mixed every colour in the spectrum together, you would get white.

I do not believe him.

 

[Nottseagull]

My add insists that if you mixed every colour in the spectrum together, you would get white.

I do not believe him.

You only get white if the colours are projected, and then I think its only the three primary colours.

 

[Man of Harveys]

A bullet dropped from shoulder height and a bullet fired from a rifle on a completely level trajectory at exactly the same height will both hit the ground at the same time.

Nobody ever believes this despite the law of gravity.

Put me down as a sceptic for now at least...how does that work then?

 

[Easy 10]

You only get white if the colours are projected, and then I think its only the three primary colours.

So it WOULDN'T work if you did it with paint.

HAH

I knew it.

 

[Mendoza]

The distance between your wrist and elbow joint on your forearm is the same size as your foot

TRY IT

 

[Man of Harveys]

Flamingoes are the only birds that can, and do, masturbate.

 

[Easy 10]

Flamingoes are the only birds that can, and do, masturbate.

You havn't seen my cockatiel on his wooden branch then.
He's been INSATIABLE lately.

 

[BeardyChops]

If you put one grain of rice on one square of a chess board, then double it (two) on the next square, then double it (four) on the next square, and keep on going like that...

you get bored very quickly.

 

[Nottseagull]

The distance between your wrist and elbow joint on your forearm is the same size as your foot

TRY IT

You've just posted that nonsense to make people look silly in the office, haven't you

 

[Mendoza]

You've just posted that nonsense to make people look silly in the office, haven't you

you may look silly, but its true, and then you can pass on the fountain of knowledge and make other people look silly too!

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Rhubarb is the only vegetable which goes with custard.

Apart from Carrot [cake] innit.

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

Flamingoes are the only birds that can, and do, masturbate.

What about Anne Widdicombe?

 

[BrightonBiatch]

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television

 

[Jahooli]

A glass prism has invisible colour reservoirs built into them - a bit like the things that put the stripes into toothpaste - that splits and dyes the light as it passes through.
Pink Floyd invented a means of filling the reservoirs by cleverly reversing the process using cellophane and torches.

When they tried it with paint it was "well shit".

 

[Stoo82]

Didn't know Tony Blair was related to the Queen, but he must be if he's related to Cameron, who is a direct descendant of William IV (Queen Victoria's uncle).

From the 'Genealogists' Magazine': (Volume 29 Number 10 Jun 2009)

Royal Blair

Genealogy is full of surprises so it comes as an ironic reveltaion that the anit-aristocratic former Prime Minister Blair is in fact a decendent of aristocracy and royalty. Edward J Davies, 'Descent of Tony Blair from James V, King of Scots', in The Genealogist 22 (2008), 247-55 revels that his grandmother desended from minor Scottish gentry going back to the Leslie family and thence from Robert Stewart, Earl of Orkney, a bastard of King James V of Scotland. As James V was a grandson of King Henry VII of England, he also desends from the medieval English kings. He is thus a distant cousin of a certain David Cameron who, descendant of William IV, also shares the desent from James V. Genealogy makes starnge relationships.

 

[The Large One]

David Beckham has never scored for England at Wembley.

Gary Lineker never scored at Villa Park.

 

[Stoo82]

To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into it's eyeballs...it will let you go instantly.

Interesting, and useful.

 

[Simon Morgan]

There are 13 players that have played for more than one of the 'big 4' clubs during the Premiership era (Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Man U). One of them has played for 3.