I bet you didnt know that

StupidLikeAFox

tryfix wrote: »

In the year of 1916 Murderous Mary was hanged in Erwin Tennesee. She was an Elephant who had killed her trainer. .

You're not wrong.....

Red Kev

Switzerland also has a navy. It's used to patrol Lake Konstanz and the Rhine river. They considered buying a U-Boot (a small one) in the war, but didn't want to buy such an obviously large craft off one of the war antagonists.

I found this out about 25 years ago when I was hitching through Switzerland and this Swiss Navy Officer picked me up. I thought he was taking the Mick, but he wasn't.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

At its widest point, Chile is a little wider than Ireland.

However, it's so long that if its northern-most point was at Malin Head, the Southern tip would be in Mauritania.

diomed

D0NNELLY wrote: »

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika_Laundry

That report has a few errors
"It ceased to exist as a separate company until the late 1960s, when it was bought out by the Spring Grove Laundry company, which continued to operate from the same site in Ballsbridge"

It was called Irish Linen Services Ltd in the 1980s, was sold to UK laundry group Initial Services in 1989, and later sold to Spring Grove.

Red Kev

The Swastika Laundry was on Sherbourne Rd, where The Oval office complex is today. The old chimney is still there, but the Swastika Laundry signage on it is gone.

Next door is a Mercedes and VW dealership, on what was an old tram depot. The very first VW Beetle built outside Germany was built there in 1949. VW found the car in the 1980's, took it back to Germany, restored it and it's now on display in their museum in Wolfsburg.

If you look just south East of this on a map you can see the spur of the old train line that went to the RDS. It was only used when an exhibition was on for passengers and goods.

In our "wisdom" we ripped it up and built offices on it, it's now part of the AIB HQ. Ryan Tubridys granddad was responsible for the destruction of a lot of train lines and tram lines back in the day, he also made the fateful decision to sell the Land for next to nothing. Very short sighted thinking.

Malari

Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »

Boliva lost its coastline to Chile in the War of the Pacific over a century ago. The Bolivian navy have ships on Lake Titicaca and some rivers in case they ever get their coast back.

Ironically, they didn't have a navy when they had a coast which is one of the reasons they lost that war so badly.

Strangely, I actually knew this! There was a Bolivian and a Chilean in my class in college and they sometimes slagged each other over it. :pac:

Big Nasty

Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »

At its widest point, Chile is a little wider than Ireland.

However, it's so long that if its northern-most point was at Malin Head, the Southern tip would be in Mauritania.

I wonder which came first, Chile or the chili?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Big Nasty wrote: »

I wonder which came first, Chile or the chili?

The landmass of Chile existed before the chilli evolved. So...

decky1

Love the one about the Rats and Horses. LOL.

rossie1977

No part of the famous 'Las Vegas Strip' is actually in the city of Las Vegas. It's in the nearby unincorporated townships of Paradise and Winchester Nevada.

Even though Mercury is far closer to the sun (it orbits at a distance of 58 million km) the surface of Venus (which orbits the sun at over 108 million km) is far hotter. This is due to the greenhouse effect caused by massive amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The average temperature on the surface of Venus is 462 degrees celcius, day or night.

We live in a cluster of galaxies known as the local group, an area which encompasses about 100 billionth of a percent of the observable universe. Eventually in a few billion years all those galaxies will merge to form one supergalaxy called Milkomeda. We are gravitationally bound only to this tiny part of the universe forever however even if we discover sci-fi levels of interstellar travel. This is due to the fact that dark energy is moving the rest of the universe further away from us at speeds we can never hope to match (warp speed or not). In the far distant future, 100 billion years or so the rest of the universe will have moved so far away from our own local group there won't be any evidence anything exists beyond the nothingness of space past Milkomeda.

When Robert Wadlow the tallest man who ever lived at 8 feet 11 inches died at 22 there was no sign he had stopped growing. Wadlow died due to a badly fitted brace on his foot that caused blisters which then got infected. Speaking of 8 footers. Only 16 people have been verified measured at standing 8 foot or taller, four of those are alive today and one, Patrick Cotter O'Brien was Irish (born in Kinsale). In fact O'Brien would be the first known person in human history to have been measured at 8 feet or more.

dueaug

Did you know Sir Ian Mc Kellan was the vampire in Pet Shop Boys video "heart"!!! I bet you didn't

Cartouche

Inside a Black Hole in space all known laws of physics break down. Physicists can only speculate what happens inside

You can't lick your elbow

You can always see your nose

If you push your ears out so they are at 90 degrees to your head, when you speak the voice you hear is the same as other people hear.

Skylinehead

rossie1977 wrote: »

Even though Mercury is far closer to the sun (it orbits at a distance of 58 million km) the surface of Venus (which orbits the sun at over 108 million km) is far hotter. This is due to the greenhouse effect caused by massive amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The average temperature on the surface of Venus is 462 degrees celcius, day or night.

Mercury is close enough to that in direct sunlight, but due to little or no atmosphere, it gets to -170 celsius at night. Fair difference!

diomed

Don Juan's Reckless Daughter album by Joni Mitchell
All three album cover images are Joni Mitchell

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FanadMan

Deleted User wrote: »

You can't lick your elbow

You can always see your nose

If you push your ears out so they are at 90 degrees to your head, when you speak the voice you hear is the same as other people hear.

Some people can lick their elbows. It was on QI - someone in the audience was shown doing it but there's no bloody video of it on YT

Squall Leonhart

Deleted User wrote: »

If you push your ears out so they are at 90 degrees to your head, when you speak the voice you hear is the same as other people hear.

I want to try this now, but I'm in an office with people so it'll have to wait

Green Mile

There are no pain receptors in your elbow. You can pinch your elbow skin as much as you want, it wont hurt.

ILikeBoats

Green Mile wrote: »

There are no pain receptors in your elbow. You can pinch your elbow skin as much as you want, it wont hurt.

Holy sh!t!

Green Mile

In September 1752, 11 days were removed from the calendar. The 3rd to the 13th of September 1752 never existed.

dr.fuzzenstein

The crack of a whip is a sonic boom.

Squall Leonhart

Skylinehead wrote: »

Mercury is close enough to that in direct sunlight, but due to little or no atmosphere, it gets to -170 celsius at night. Fair difference!

Mercury turns on it's own axis far far slower than earth does, meaning a day on mercury is equivalent to the length of 59 earth days. So that'd be a long, long, cold night.

Mercury also has the shortest year length, completing it's trip around the sun in 88 days.

VonLuck

Green Mile wrote: »

There are no pain receptors in your elbow. You can pinch your elbow skin as much as you want, it wont hurt.

Your funny bone more than makes up for the missing pain receptors.

Wanderer78

VonLuck wrote: »

Your funny bone more than makes up for the missing pain receptors.

stupid (un)funny bone!

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Green Mile wrote: »

In September 1752, 11 days were removed from the calendar. The 3rd to the 13th of September 1752 never existed.

Only within the British empire.

Cartouche

For every human on Earth there are 1.6 million ants

Gwynplaine

There's a planet out there, very far away, that is made of diamonds.
Mikey Forrester in Trainspotting is played by Irvine Welsh.
Gary Oldman is Big Mo Slater's brother.

GrumpyMe

That this tool is an awl

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Cartouche

On June 30th 1908 an explosion equal to 2000 atomic bombs shook the wilderness of Tunguska , Siberia. Millions of trees were incinerated in an explosion that could be seen as far away as London. Nobody knows for sure what caused this event but scientists think a meteor exploded above the ground

jimgoose

Cartouche wrote: »

On June 30th 1908 an explosion equal to 2000 atomic bombs shook the wilderness of Tunguska , Siberia. Millions of trees were incinerated in an explosion that could be seen as far away as London. Nobody knows for sure what caused this event but scientists think a meteor exploded above the ground

...and about a third of the power of the mighty Tsar Bomba, or "Emperor Bomb". This was detonated by those pesky Russkies on Novaya Zemlya island in the Arctic Ocean in 1961, and with an estimated blast yield of 57 megatons it broke windows 500 miles away. It is the most powerful hydrogen weapon and man-made explosion ever by a country mile.