Space Commander Travis Posted July 7, 2017 #301 Share Posted July 7, 2017 In China, Children under 120 cm tall travel free on sleeper trains, 120-150 cm tall travel for half fare, over 150 cm tall pay full fare. So plenty of scope for fraud if you're a dishonest midget, I'd have thought. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acute Posted July 7, 2017 Author #302 Share Posted July 7, 2017 2 hours ago, Matt221 said: Sierras are surprisingly aerodynamic, with a drag co-efficient of just 0.34, which is the same as a Ferrari F40. Sierra meant Saw in Spanish, and has come to mean a jagged mountain range. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acute Posted July 7, 2017 Author #303 Share Posted July 7, 2017 1980's President and former actor, Ronald Reagan, was suffering from dementia long before he left office. When the (then) Labour Party leader, Neil Kinnock, met Reagan in the White House, the president read from cue-cards. As the meeting finished, Reagan said: "I'm coming over to England soon, to do The Hasty Heart" -- a film he made in the forties! Here's an example of Reagan being prompted by his wife Nancy. She says: "We're doing everything we can", then he repeats it. A nice chap, with a sad demise. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Noteverythingisaconspiracy Posted July 7, 2017 #304 Share Posted July 7, 2017 The highest point in Denmark is a television tower. It is 260 meters higher than the highest natural point. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt221 Posted July 8, 2017 #305 Share Posted July 8, 2017 The Danish prince Hamlet, the fictional character of William Shakespeare's famous play, was inspired by an old Danish myth of the Viking Prince Amled of Jutland 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Giovanni Posted July 8, 2017 #306 Share Posted July 8, 2017 Norway introduced salmon sushi to the Japanese! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acute Posted July 9, 2017 Author #307 Share Posted July 9, 2017 Bluetooth is named after Viking king Harald Bluetooth who united warring Danish tribes into a single kingdom. The implication is that Bluetooth does the same with communications protocols, uniting them into one universal standard. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt221 Posted July 9, 2017 #308 Share Posted July 9, 2017 Erik the red was so violent fellow Vikings objected; exiling him from both Norway and Iceland 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acute Posted July 9, 2017 Author #309 Share Posted July 9, 2017 (edited) In the Electric Light Orchestra's 1980 single 'All Over The World', Jeff Lynne sings: "London, Hamburg, Paris, Rome, Rio, Hong Kong, Tokyo, L.A., New York, Amsterdam, Monte Carlo, Shard End and..... All over the world." Shard End is the district of Birmingham (England) where he was born. Edited July 9, 2017 by acute Sorry about the line spaces! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Giovanni Posted July 9, 2017 #310 Share Posted July 9, 2017 I've read somewhere that Edison was afraid of the dark, but i don't know how accurate it is... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Monk Posted July 9, 2017 #311 Share Posted July 9, 2017 London (8.7 million) and Moscow (13.1 million) are the only two cities above the 50th parallel with a population of more than five million. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Noteverythingisaconspiracy Posted July 9, 2017 #312 Share Posted July 9, 2017 1 hour ago, Matt221 said: Erik the red was so violent fellow Vikings objected; exiling him from both Norway and Iceland Forcing him to move to Greenland where he founded the first permanent European settlement. Erik the Reds son Leif Erikson is often credited with discovering America, but personally I think that honour should go to the ancestors of the people who allready lived there. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acute Posted July 9, 2017 Author #313 Share Posted July 9, 2017 Vikings didn't wear helmets with horns on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt221 Posted July 9, 2017 #314 Share Posted July 9, 2017 (edited) Vikings' teeth were ground down by the grit in their bread Edited July 9, 2017 by Matt221 Cause I can 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Monk Posted July 9, 2017 #315 Share Posted July 9, 2017 1 hour ago, acute said: Vikings didn't wear helmets with horns on. The Ancient Britons did, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Noteverythingisaconspiracy Posted July 9, 2017 #316 Share Posted July 9, 2017 2 hours ago, acute said: Vikings didn't wear helmets with horns on. Are you telling me that this isn't an authentic Viking costume ? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acute Posted July 9, 2017 Author #317 Share Posted July 9, 2017 42 minutes ago, Noteverythingisaconspiracy said: Are you telling me that this isn't an authentic Viking costume ? Vicky The Viking can pillage my village anytime she wants! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Commander Travis Posted July 10, 2017 #318 Share Posted July 10, 2017 According to tradition, King Tiridates III of Armenia converted to Christianity at the beginning of the 4th Century after turning into a pig and roaming naked in the fields before being healed by St. Gregory, who had been thrown into a snake infested pit for refusing to worship an Armenian goddess. Gregory healed Tiridates by causing his snout, tusks and skin to fall off before baptizing the grateful monarch in the Euphrates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt221 Posted July 11, 2017 #319 Share Posted July 11, 2017 Last night I was watching a the ITV drama"Fearless"in it stand up comedian John Bishop played a serious part of a bloke called"Steve" ..... That's very interesting............ see what I done there 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Commander Travis Posted July 14, 2017 #320 Share Posted July 14, 2017 Depending on who you ask, according to some soruces the longest airport name in the world is Ahmedabad - Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel International Airport in India, although I think that Colombo International Airport in Sri Lanka missed a selling point by calling itself Bandaranaike International Airport when they could have used the surely much more resounding full name of the former Prime Minister in question, Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike. The shortest airport name, meanwhile, is almost certainly Ufa, Russia, whose full name is probably also unique in being the same as its three letter code, UFA. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt221 Posted July 15, 2017 #321 Share Posted July 15, 2017 Pilots and co-pilots are required to eat different meals in case of food poisoning 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acute Posted July 15, 2017 Author #322 Share Posted July 15, 2017 The Raspberry Pie is the 3rd biggest selling computer in history. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acute Posted July 15, 2017 Author #323 Share Posted July 15, 2017 The miniature turbine in Dyson's new hairdryer spins at 1,800 revolutions per second. (Yes..... per second) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Noteverythingisaconspiracy Posted July 15, 2017 #324 Share Posted July 15, 2017 The is a TV show called Quite Interesting (QI) and it is very interesting...... plus the host used to be a guy called Stephen. See how it fits with the thread title ? The new host; Sandy Toksvig is from my little country. We are everywhere. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt221 Posted July 15, 2017 #325 Share Posted July 15, 2017 Howard Goodall's QI theme tune contains a secret message in Morse code. The first bit is clearly WWW (di dah dah, di dah dah, di dah dah), and the rest is: 'AlanZeroAndStephenHero.com' (the 'zero' is the figure 0, five dashes, dah-dah-dah-dah-dah). 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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