villaguy Posted September 17, 2013 Share Posted September 17, 2013 Light travels at approx 186,000 miles per second and takes 8 seconds to travel from the sun to the earth. Which is slightly longer than it would take Gabby to get there and back.8 minutes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villaguy Posted September 17, 2013 Share Posted September 17, 2013 The extinct passenger pigeon was the most numerous bird of all time, really upsets me how much we've raped this planet, people shot it to extinction. Here's an interesting fact about the bird. One flock in 1866 in southern Ontario was described as being 1 mi (1.5 km) wide and 300 mi (500 km) long, took 14 hours to pass, and held in excess of 3.5 billion birds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted September 17, 2013 Moderator Share Posted September 17, 2013 The extinct passenger pigeonWell its fate was sealed with a name like that 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legov Posted September 17, 2013 Share Posted September 17, 2013 Trollface should be turned into an emoticon. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted September 20, 2013 Share Posted September 20, 2013 With thanks to the Huff post for these gems of info A single sperm contains 37.5 MB of DNA information and thus one ejaculation represents a data transfer of 15,875 GB British spies stopped using semen as invisible ink because it began to smell if it wasn’t fresh A single human male produces enough sperm in two weeks to impregnate every fertile woman on the planet The "G-spot" was nearly called the Whipple Tickle- after Professor Beverley Whipple, who coined the expression that we know today One in ten European babies is conceived in an IKEA bed Alfred Kinsey, author of Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948), could insert a toothbrush into his penis, bristle-end first. :o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimzk5 Posted September 20, 2013 Share Posted September 20, 2013 Alfred Kinsey, author of Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948), could insert a toothbrush into his penis, bristle-end first. meh, I've moved up to hairbrushes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legov Posted September 21, 2013 Share Posted September 21, 2013 A single sperm contains 37.5 MB of DNA information and thus one ejaculation represents a data transfer of 15,875 GB How do they calculate those? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted September 21, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted September 21, 2013 I just learned about the Prussian Incursion into Ireland of 1807.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hogso Posted September 21, 2013 Share Posted September 21, 2013 When Tom Hanks doesn't have time/can't be bothered to do the voice for Woody from Toy Story, his brother Jim does the voice instead. The video games, and various adverts such as the current 'Toy Story of Terror' one are examples of this. It is unclear whether Jim Hanks' life will not be complete until he comes to VP, like that of his more famous brother. I actually laughed out loud when I spotted that on the side of the Academy before the Newcastle game btw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted September 21, 2013 Share Posted September 21, 2013 Alfred Kinsey, author of Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948), could insert a toothbrush into his penis, bristle-end first. meh, I've moved up to hairbrushes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 First managerial casualty of the season during the Premier League era and what happened to the club who sacked said manager. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 Spray tans were invented by... the crew of Baywatchhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01gv5n5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted September 29, 2013 Share Posted September 29, 2013 By cross referencing basketball results, weather forecasts and the TV guide with the lyrics in the song, people figured out that the day in Ice Cube's "It was a good day" was Monday January 20th, 1992. Probably. (source) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted October 7, 2013 Share Posted October 7, 2013 The sound of the Tardis appearing in Dr Who was created by rubbing a piano string with a set of house keys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post The_Rev Posted October 21, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted October 21, 2013 A few I read today: From the time it was discovered until the time it was declassified as a planet, Pluto did not complete one orbit around the sun. A million seconds is 11 days. A billion seconds is over 31 years. (and that is the short scale billion, or a thousand million) The difference in time between the Stegosaurus living and the T-Rex living is bigger than the difference in time between the T-Rex living and today. Cleopatra lived closer in time to the moon landings than she did to the building of the pyramids. The southernmost point in Canada is further south than the most northerly point in California. There are more lakes in Canada than there are in the rest of the world combined (and by some margin too, 60% of the worlds lakes are in Canada) A Boeing 747's wing span is longer than the Wright brother's first flight. Slang is slang for "short language" 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villaguy Posted October 21, 2013 Share Posted October 21, 2013 There are just over 3,500,000 letters in the Bible, so winning the lotto is the equivalent of picking a precise letter out of 4 Bibles. Winning the Euromillions is the equivalent to doing the same feat in about 32 and a half Bibles! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StigVillan Posted October 22, 2013 Share Posted October 22, 2013 The average time it takes for my computer at work to load up my profile is around 43 minutes... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted October 22, 2013 Moderator Share Posted October 22, 2013 The average time it takes for my computer at work to load up my profile is around 43 minutes...I commute 27 miles in less than that. Still it's a top excuse for a coffee break or a paid poo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted October 22, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted October 22, 2013 (edited) Slang is slang for "short language" O rly? slang (n.) 1756, "special vocabulary of tramps or thieves," later "jargon of a particular profession" (1801), of uncertain origin, the usual guess being that it is from a Scandinavian source, cf. Norwegian slengenamn "nickname," slengja kjeften "to abuse with words," literally "to sling the jaw," related to Old Norse slyngva "to sling." But OED, while admitting "some approximation in sense," discounts this connection based on "date and early associations." Liberman also denies it, as well as any connection with French langue (or language or lingo). Rather, he derives it elaborately from an old slang word meaning "narrow piece of land," itself of obscure origin. Century Dictionary says "there is no evidence to establish a Gipsy origin." Sense of "very informal language characterized by vividness and novelty" first recorded 1818. lang is a conscious offence against some conventional standard of propriety. A mere vulgarism is not slang, except when it is purposely adopted, and acquires an artificial currency, among some class of persons to whom it is not native. The other distinctive feature of slang is that it is neither part of the ordinary language, nor an attempt to supply its deficiencies. The slang word is a deliberate substitute for a word of the vernacular, just as the characters of a cipher are substitutes for the letters of the alphabet, or as a nickname is a substitute for a personal name. [Henry Bradley, from "Slang," in "Encyclopedia Britannica," 11th ed.] A word that ought to have survived is slangwhanger (1807, American English) "noisy or abusive talker or writer." Link Edited October 22, 2013 by mjmooney Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted October 22, 2013 Moderator Share Posted October 22, 2013 If we can get cretinous words into the dictionary and if we can change the meaning of other perfectly cromulent words then we can certainly get slangwhanger back in there too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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