Facts that shocked you

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

Doofus said:

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

RedAndy said:

"quite" big... big enough to hold quite a lot of rice....

If they were laid flat, rather than in a pile (so you could count them)

I think each square would need to be 1,125,000,000,000 kilometres. I'd agree, that is rather big

...and if you could count 300 grains a minute it'd take you 41,666,666,666,667 days.

Imagine if you lost count or nudged the board towards the end.

Yeah, but you know how many grains there are so only a numpty would try to count them...

Never trust a man with a big bag of rice

[Milkyway]

bazza white said:

Milkyway said:

The Ford Escort Cosworth should have had a triple deck rear spoiler.
It was shelved due to bean counters.... even though it produced 30% more downforce.

Edited by Milkyway on Sunday 25th June 18:10

Or someone sensible at ford said it looks a bit crap sort it out. May have been the designers original intentions however i bet every car goes though the same process of changing before sign off. Only once signed off is it the way I was supposed to be really. Imagine how manu looney designed get shelved.

The designer himself said that it was the accountants who kyboshed it.... could have simply put it on the options list.

[Pistom]

Doofus said:

Pistom said:

The Mini Metro tartan trim was based on the gullwing Mercedes (300SL) which in turn was a nod to the Mercedes racing drivers of the time. Sterling Moss used blue, Fangio used red and Karl Kling used green.

I've really no idea why the Metro had it though.

Did you copy and paste my post from the Harry's Garage thread and not even credit me?

ETA. And the Metro trim wasn't based on it. Neither was the Ford Capri.

Edited by Doofus on Monday 26th June 18:32

The Capri trim is nothing like the Mercedes/Metro trim!!!

[Thin White Duke]

italianjob1275 said:

There were more horses in the German army in WW2 than during WW1

Weren’t mechanised you see… one of the reasons they lost

Indeed, they used about 600,000 horses during Operation Barbarossa.

It took the Germans nearly 6 months to reach the outskirts of Moscow. Napoleon got there and captured it in 3 months.


Talking of actors ages, Wilfred Brambell was just 13 years older than Harry H Corbett.

Harry died before Wilfred. In this clip he pays tribute to his late co-star. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N09mfMnW0yA

Roger Moore was older in Live and Let Die than Sean Connery was in Diamonds are Forever.

[marksx]

TheGroover said:

toasty said:

The moon is much, much further away and far bigger than it looks.

On the same note, all the planets in the solar system could fit between the earth and the moon.

I had to check this one and it definitely surprised me

[Nova Gyna]

There were only 12 episodes of Fawlty Towers.

Edited by Nova Gyna on Monday 26th June 20:04

Edited by Nova Gyna on Monday 26th June 20:06

[cuprabob]

Nova Gyna said:

There were only 12 episodes of Fawlty Towers.

Edited by Nova Gyna on Monday 26th June 20:04

Edited by Nova Gyna on Monday 26th June 20:06

...and only 13 episodes of Mr Benn.

[anonymous-user]

marksx said:

TheGroover said:

toasty said:

The moon is much, much further away and far bigger than it looks.

On the same note, all the planets in the solar system could fit between the earth and the moon.

I had to check this one and it definitely surprised me

At its furthest point, yes.

[thegreenhell]

Pistom said:

Doofus said:

Pistom said:

The Mini Metro tartan trim was based on the gullwing Mercedes (300SL) which in turn was a nod to the Mercedes racing drivers of the time. Sterling Moss used blue, Fangio used red and Karl Kling used green.

I've really no idea why the Metro had it though.

Did you copy and paste my post from the Harry's Garage thread and not even credit me?

ETA. And the Metro trim wasn't based on it. Neither was the Ford Capri.

Edited by Doofus on Monday 26th June 18:32

The Capri trim is nothing like the Mercedes/Metro trim!!!

I don't think I've ever seen a Metro with Tartan seats. Plenty of Minis, TR7s and other BL stuff had it, though. I thought the 1970s tartan fad had ended by the time of the Metro.

[Nethybridge]

The UK average adult erect penis length is under 6.1 inches.

[Scabutz]

Nethybridge said:

The UK average adult erect penis length is under 6.1 inches.

And thats shocking because you don't measure up or because you're trousering a porn star level member

[ben5575]

Nethybridge said:

The UK average adult erect penis length is under 6.1 inches.

Presumably it's also under 12" as well then?

[julianm]

About 20,000 vehicles pass along the A66 every 24 hours.
https://roadtraffic.dft.gov.uk/manualcountpoints/5...

[DodgyGeezer]

thegreenhell said:

I don't think I've ever seen a Metro with Tartan seats. Plenty of Minis, TR7s and other BL stuff had it, though. I thought the 1970s tartan fad had ended by the time of the Metro.

I kinda miss the tartan sometimes, I'd have this in a shot

[TwigtheWonderkid]

The nearest planet to Earth is not Mars, it's Mercury. The Earth gets closer to Mars than any other planet, but if you look at the distance from Earth of Mars and Mercury on a daily basis, on average, Mercury is the closest. Mercury is also the closest planet to Neptune, Uranus, Jupiter, and all the other planets in our solar system.

[NMNeil]

toasty said:

The moon is much, much further away and far bigger than it looks.

And I was amazed at just how slow the speed of light really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AAU_btBN7s

[Earl of Hazzard]

cuprabob said:

Nova Gyna said:

There were only 12 episodes of Fawlty Towers.

Edited by Nova Gyna on Monday 26th June 20:04

Edited by Nova Gyna on Monday 26th June 20:06

...and only 13 episodes of Mr Benn.

and only 15 episodes of Mr Bean

[Doofus]

I haven't been shocked by any 'fact' for at least three pages.

I'm not even shocked that people believe stuff that isn't a fact.

[thegreenhell]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

The nearest planet to Earth is not Mars, it's Mercury. The Earth gets closer to Mars than any other planet, but if you look at the distance from Earth of Mars and Mercury on a daily basis, on average, Mercury is the closest. Mercury is also the closest planet to Neptune, Uranus, Jupiter, and all the other planets in our solar system.

That seems kind of obvious if you're talking about average distance around the whole orbit. Mercury is the first planet from the Sun so it will always have the smallest distance to any planet when on opposing orbits, which is when the largest component of the calculation is made.

[marksx]

ben5575 said:

Nethybridge said:

The UK average adult erect penis length is under 6.1 inches.

Presumably it's also under 12" as well then?

It's between 5.1 and 5.5 according to Mr Google