Fascinating Facts and Trivia

Amazing but true. The amazing martial arts expert and late film star Bruce Lee won the 1958 Hong Kong cha-cha championship.

Calculator Trivia:

For those interested in figures, other than the obvious ones, try this with a standard 8 digit calculator.

Multiply
1.1111111
*
1.1111111

No, I'm not giving the answer, the fun is finding out for yourself.

The square root of 20 to 3 decimal places is the same number as the "Flying Scotsman" steam locomotive (without the decimal point) = 4472.

Thing is back then most of us tried to spell out words on a calculator like 8OO85
The singer Kirsty McColl and the wife of Dave Robinson(Stiff records) were backing singers for Jona Lewie on his hit "In the Kitchen at Parties" McColl also recorded an old Billy Bragg tune 'Looking for New England' (once done by Billy with just an electric guitar and an amp)

The small village of Tyndrum in Scotland, with a population of less than 200, is served by two railway stations; Upper & Lower Tyndrum.

This is down to the physical geography of the area, and also the historical legacy of different railway companies serving the area back in the railway building era.

In 1949 a flock of starlings happened to land on the minute hand of the Big Ben clock,putting the time back by four minutes.

A Pangram sentence is one that contains every letter in the english language for example: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is a Pangram.

London has the largest library in the world, The Towering British Library in Kings Cross, London, has over 170 million items in it's catalogue.

The deepest part of the ocean is about 36,200 feet down (11,030m), which is the equivalent to 25 Empire State buildings stacked on top of each other.

The sports Football, Golf, Boxing and Cricket were all invented in the United Kingdom.

Chickens communicate using over 200 distinct noises.

Marlon Brando was paid just over $1 million for being on screen for 10 minutes in the original Superman film.

Beyoncé had released more perfumes than albums. (Have you ever tried to play a perfume on a record player?)

Eating ice cream for breakfast can increase mental alertness(BRAIN FREEZE!!)

Winston Churchill's final words were "I'm bored with it all"

Bit of personal trivia which I find hard to believe-it is 25 years ago today that my friend and I flew out to Australia (Perth and Melbourne) We all say 'doesn't time fly' but when a milestone like that occurs it is hard to come to terms with that length of time passing. For reference we stayed with a friend in Perth and then with my friends' cousins in Melbourne-amongst the places we visited we ended up on the set of Neighbours-well, the road they film on. As my t-shirt says "Australia...it's a BLOODY long way!"

Australia is wider than the Moon!!

(03-11-2018 21:39 )GreenMachine Wrote:  Australia is wider than the Moon!!

Is it made of Cheddar Cheese too?
(except the red bit of rock, which is clearly Edam)