Fascinating Facts and Trivia

Good grief! Get a room you too, although maybe goaty's should be padded

George V had a dragon tattoo on his arm.
The risk of a heart attack increases by 25% the Monday after the clocks go back.
For each gallon of fuel, the QE2 liner can only travel the length of a greyhound bus.
The word FRIDGE contains a D yet the long root word REFRIGERATOR doesn't-odd that!

Not so much a fascinating fact but more of an enigma-why is it that the word abbrieviation is so long for a description of words that are so short?

(25-11-2018 19:27 )GreenMachine Wrote:  Not so much a fascinating fact but more of an enigma-why is it that the word abbrieviation is so long for a description of words that are so short?

The opposite of excetera... or etc, for short?

Not sure there is one, etcetera (latin in origin I think) usually means 'and so on' or 'so forth'

(25-11-2018 19:27 )GreenMachine Wrote:  Not so much a fascinating fact but more of an enigma-why is it that the word abbrieviation is so long for a description of words that are so short?

The reason the word is longer than the abbreviation is so you can tell them apart. In fact, the word was specifically designed for that very purpose, and when you think about it, that sort of makes sense, doesn't it? Just think if the word were "abb" and you abbreviated it with "abbreviation." Do you think you would ever finish whatever it is you were writing? So they worked it out the way it is, which is a whole lot more efficient, and lets you get a lot more things done in life. It makes sense, but even if it doesn't, you should memorize it. You don't want to get this one wrong

In 19th century Britain, opium for babies was marketed as ‘quietness’

Did you know that Motorway signs were deliberately written with a capital letter followed by lower case letters, as your brain reads it more easily than if it was all in capital letters?

Google was originally named ‘backrub’!

Guinness estimates that 93,000 litres of beer are lost in facial hair each year in the UK.

(25-11-2018 23:38 )Carl43a Wrote:  Guinness estimates that 93,000 litres of beer are lost in facial hair each year in the UK.

I'm so tempted to ask that during a drunken night out, if it's lost in any other kind of hair..? But I won't....