"That's very interesting, Steve"

[acute]

*groans*

[Space Commander Travis]

According tot he author himself, Ian Fleming chose 007 as the code name for his secret agent James "007" Bond because it was the Zip code of the area of Washington D.C. where most of the Spooks who worked at the CIA lived. ZIP Code 20007 

It was also, interestingly, used by the famed Elizabethan astrologer and secret agent John Dee as a code name to sign letters, and furthermore it is or was, the number of the room housing the ladies' lavatories at the Commonwealth Office building in London. The latter, though, may be a coincidence. 

[+Noteverythingisaconspiracy]

9 hours ago, Manfred von Dreidecker said:

 I saw a story the other day that Aarhus was one of the up and coming coolest places on earth. I don't know if you might be able to verify that? 

Aarhus is in Jutland. Nothing cool ever comes out of Jutland.  

[Black Monk]

On 2017-9-3 at 11:07 PM, Noteverythingisaconspiracy said:

Which is incidentally about the same percentage that voted for Trump. It seems these days all you need is about a quarter of the votes to win. Go figure. 

 

Brexit didn't get a quarter of the votes. It got 52% of them.

[Black Monk]

On 2017-9-5 at 8:10 AM, acute said:

 

Scotland has 8% of Europe's coastline.

The UK has even more!

The UK's coastline is longer than Brazil's.

[Black Monk]

21 hours ago, Manfred von Dreidecker said:

According tot he author himself, Ian Fleming chose 007 as the code name for his secret agent James "007" Bond because it was the Zip code of the area of Washington D.C. where most of the Spooks who worked at the CIA lived. ZIP Code 20007 

Bond's number—007—was assigned by Fleming in reference to one of British naval intelligence's key achievements of World War I: the breaking of the German diplomatic code.^[21] One of the German documents cracked and read by the British was the Zimmermann Telegram, which was coded 0075,^[22] and which was one of the factors that led to the US entering the war.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bond_(literary_character)

[+Noteverythingisaconspiracy]

34 minutes ago, Black Monk said:

Brexit didn't get a quarter of the votes. It got 52% of them.

We were talking about the percentage of eligible voters. 

[Matt221]

The longest distance a deepwater lobster has been recorded to travel is 225 miles

[Black Monk]

42 minutes ago, Noteverythingisaconspiracy said:

We were talking about the percentage of eligible voters. 

Eligible voters not voting don't really matter. Almost all of them are to blame for not voting.  In a democracy it's only votes that matter.

Edited September 10, 2017 by Black Monk

[Matt221]

An estimated one third of male fish in British waters are changing sex due to pollution in human sewage.

[Black Monk]

The London Beer Flood happened on 17 October 1814^[2] in the parish of St. Giles, London, England. At the Meux and Company Brewery^[1] in Tottenham Court Road,^[1][3] a huge vat containing over 135,000 imperial gallons (610,000 L) of beer ruptured, causing other vats in the same building to succumb in a domino effect. As a result, more than 323,000 imperial gallons (1,470,000 L) of beer burst out and gushed into the streets. The wave of beer destroyed two homes and crumbled the wall of the Tavistock Arms pub, killing teenage employee Eleanor Cooper under the rubble.^[4] Within minutes neighbouring George Street and New Street were swamped, seriously injuring a mother, and killing a daughter and young neighbour who were taking tea, and beer surged through a room of people gathered for a wake, killing five of them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Beer_Flood

 

[Matt221]

In 2013, a falling cow killed a 45-year-old Brazilian man. The cow had been grazing on the man’s corrugated roof when the roof buckled. Both the man’s wife, who was lying beside him, and the cow, were unharmed

[acute]

Kelly Groucutt, former bass guitarist / vocalist in the Electric Light Orchestra, died from a heart attack after a bale of hay fell on him.

[Matt221]

Robin Campbell from the Birmingham band UB40 purchased Jeff lynns Meriden house from him

[acute]

Comedian and former quiz show host Jasper Carrott is the father of actress Lucy Davis who played Dawn Tinsley in The Office.

[acute]

^ Also, in 2001 he was a runner and supported the Knowle Fun Run through sponsorship and publicity, donating several thousand pounds, £10 for each person who beat him.

[Black Monk]

In ancient Greek, the word "idiot" meant anyone who wasn't a politician.

[acute]

During the launch of the new iPhone X, shares in Apple nosedived as soon as Craig Federighi failed to get the Facial Recognition to work.

[Matt221]

France was still executing people by guillotine when Star Wars: A New Hope hit theatres

[acute]

The TV sitcom 'Mrs.Brown's Boys' is broadcast in Iceland.

Edited September 16, 2017 by acute
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[Black Monk]

The last time the Netherlands played an international football match without a 'van' in their starting XI was against France during Euro 2000 (they won 3-2).

The first proposal for space travel in English history was made by Oliver Cromwell’s brother-in-law.

[acute]

The first 'C' in Piriform's CCleaner stands for 'Crap'.

[acute]

Shitterton, a hamlet in Dorset, has had its signpost stolen so many times that, in 2010, more than half of the 50 households banded together to purchase a 1.5-ton block of Purbeck Stone as a permanent replacement.

[Space Commander Travis]

The most popular variety of cultivated banana is named after the Cavendish family, the owners of Chatsworth House in Derbyshire, England, who first cultivated it in the 19th c. 

[Space Commander Travis]

On June 11th, 1985, Ron Reagan, the then President of the USA, wrote in his diary,

"Lunch with 5 top Space Scientists. It was fascinating. Space truly is the last frontier and some of the developments in astronomy etc are like science fiction, except they are real. I learned that our Shuttle capacity is such that we can orbit 300 people." Now, the Space Shuttle could hold a maximum of eight persons, and there were only ever five of them. Therefore, assuming he meant all at the same time, they couldn't possibly take 300 people all at the same time. Was Reagan revealing the existence of a highly classified secret Space program, or was he just going slightly doolally by then? it's up to you to decide!