[Misc] The official “Well I never knew that” thread

[clapham_gull]

I think you've mixed up your Dinos

T-Rexes and triceratops did indeed coexist and we're both on the same landmass during the Cretaceous period so may well have had the odd scrap. However, the stegosaurus, for example, lived in the Jurassic period and was extinct for about 60 million years before the t-rex emerged.

In fact, the t-rex and triceratops lived closer to our period than they did to the stegosaurus

Dinobore.

 

[Bakero]

Edit: Beaten to it by another parent with Dinosaur obsessed kids I suspect!

Not a parent just a pedant

 

[Rdodge30]

When ELO end the track ‘Mr Blue Sky’ with the synthesised voice saying please turn me over it’s because it was the last track on one side of the original vinyl LP and that’s the only version I’ve heard on the radio for decades now BUT On the original 7inch vinyl single at the end of the track the voice said ‘Mr Blue Sky’ but you never hear that anymore

 

[dolphins]

it’s irrelevant what side of the tin foil is on the outside when roasting chicken and turkey.

I remember that there used to be desperately keen people telling others that it was incredibly dangerous to use the "wrong side" against food... in actual fact, it's just down to the way it is made in the factory, with rollers making one side really shiny, and the other remains dull.

 

[Motogull]

Please make sure you are sitting down.











I shit you not.









I cannot believe it myself.












Apparently, Palace have NOT been confirmed as playing European football next season.

 

[Comrade Sam]

The average cumulus cloud weighs the same as 20,000 elephants.
Geckos stick because their feet are covered in hairs so fine that they create a molecular bond.
Or so I was told. Oh and apparently Nigel Farage isn't a man of the people.

 

[The Albion Roar]

Palace have only ever done the double over Brighton once - 101 years ago.

Brighton have done the double over them a mere three times.

 

[nickbrighton]

We are closer to Cleopatra in time, than Cleopatra was to the building of the Great Pyramids

 

[Bakero]

Sticking with the thrilling subject of tin/aluminium foil, I was about 30 when I discovered the perforated sides of the box can be pushed in to hold the roll in place. Same goes for cling film.

 

[Bodian]

Sticking with the thrilling subject of tin/aluminium foil, I was about 30 when I discovered the perforated sides of the box can be pushed in to hold the roll in place. Same goes for cling film.

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Bodian bustles off to the kitchen to see if our boxes have this....

I am 59.

(PS - my Tesco cling film box has no push in bits at the end. I feel cheated, and will make sure I buy ones that do in future!)

 

[Eeyore]

Having played cricket since I was 12 I found out yesterday, thanks to Only Connect, that cricket pitches should be laid on a north / south line so that the batsmen don’t get the sun in their eyes in the evening.

I got the connection correct too, thanks to knowing that dogs poo north to south when there are normal magnetic conditions.

I have had a dog for three years and been a cricket fan for over 40.

Unfortunately, Steyning Grammar School were never wise to this. I remember once facing a spinner there and them bowling deliberately up into the early evening sun. Which I regard as cheating, whether allowed or not.

There was a match at Canterbury, I think, where sun stopped play. The T20s going late clearly to factoring sun issues.

 

[Eeyore]

My sister was astonished when she discovered (allegedly) "Good king Wenceslas looked out on the feast of Stephen" not "Good king Wencess last looked out"

I'm now astonished too. A bit like finding out that Newcastle don't have a player called Joel Linton

 

[seagullwedgee]

If there are 100 people in a room, and 99% are left handed, how many left handed people have to leave the room to bring it down to 98%?

Most people might think 1.

But the answer is in fact 50.

 

[Eeyore]

Apparently, or so Dad told me, all the streets in Brighton have the house numbered 1 at the end of the street closest to the town hall.

 

[clapham_gull]

Ordering something on AliExpress means it actually turns up.

 

[POSKETT AT THE VALLEY]

I didn’t realise Darts were a Brighton band until the Bob Grover RIP thread the other week

Weren’t one or two of them from Goring/Worthing. Not forgetting Billy Idol.

 

[highflyer]

We are closer to Cleopatra in time, than Cleopatra was to the building of the Great Pyramids

What?

 

[nickbrighton]

Apparently, or so Dad told me, all the streets in Brighton have the house numbered 1 at the end of the street closest to the town hall.

generally speaking house numbers start with the lower numbers closer to the town centre in all towns and cities , its one of the ways to avoid getting lost in a strange city, you can orientate yourself by looking at the street numbers

 

[highflyer]

We are closer to Cleopatra in time, than Cleopatra was to the building of the Great Pyramids

Apparently this is correct, but I have no idea how.

 

[The Albion Roar]

London postcodes have little to do with the proximity or comparative location of the 1st postcodes (eg. N1, SE1, W1 etc).

Instead, the numbers are based on the districts listed alphabetically.

London postal district - Wikipedia

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