Fascinating Facts and Trivia - Printable Version +- The UK Babe Channels Forum (https://www.babeshows.co.uk) +-- Forum: General (/forumdisplay.php?fid=19) +--- Forum: All Other Subjects (/forumdisplay.php?fid=114) +---- Forum: Fun Zone (/forumdisplay.php?fid=106) +---- Thread: Fascinating Facts and Trivia (/showthread.php?tid=74832) Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 |
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - rpj316 - 18-08-2019 08:46 The late SFX technician,screenwriter and director Dan O'Bannon faked a UFO encounter with his father before he got into the film industry. RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - Carl-Gen X - 18-08-2019 20:16 A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate! RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - Carl-Gen X - 18-08-2019 20:18 On Black Friday 2014, Cards Against Humanity was removed from being on sale and replaced with a “Bullshit” box, on sale for $6. This box contained “literal feces, from an actual bull,” as the description stated on their site. This was to protest to the Black Friday shopping craziness where shoppers will literally buy anything on sale. This special Black Friday edition of Cards Against Humanity sold over 30,000 copies, where all buyers actually received a box of bull poo. RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - Carl-Gen X - 18-08-2019 20:20 The first computer for business use was developed and pioneered by a British tea shop called Lyons in the 1950’s. The LEO (Lyons Electronic Office) contained 6,000 valves and was built by Cambridge mathematician John Simmons to add up the receipts of iced buns! RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - GMach1 - 18-08-2019 23:23 The Post Office had its own computer called ERNIE used to be used for the premium bonds. This acronym stood for Electronic Random Number Indicator Equipment. Another of the first business machines was called ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was the first electronic general-purpose computer. It was Turing-complete, digital and able to solve "a large class of numerical problems" through reprogramming. RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - Carl-Gen X - 19-08-2019 21:52 In 1989, the U.S. military blared AC/DC music at General Noriega's compound in Panama for 2 continuous days. The dictator surrendered. RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - Carl-Gen X - 19-08-2019 21:53 Led Zeppelin got their name from a fellow musician, who said their band would go down like a "lead balloon." RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - Carl-Gen X - 19-08-2019 21:54 The piano Freddie Mercury plays in Bohemian Rhapsody is the same exact piano Paul McCartney plays in Hey Jude. RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - GMach1 - 22-08-2019 02:34 I am sure Carl will confirm this but a microwave oven in Welsh is called a popety ping! RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - jimboy51 - 22-08-2019 05:12 A jumbo airplane is longer and taller than the Wright brothers first flight. |