The "Did You Know?" Thread

[sixonway]

if you unlock your audi/skoda/golf with a key fob

press the unlock button keep it held down a while

then it will unlock your windows

same works for locking up they go

i thankyou

[RJ Fan club]

Did you know, that there are no Dutch Elms left in the UK? Disgusting, absolutely disgusting.

 

I think you're mixing up Dutch Elm with Dutch Elm Disease, which killed most of the Elms in this country. I don't think there is a Dutch Elm variety.

 

However, quite a lot still exist in Brighton and Hove, which is now home to the nation elm collection (given there is very few elsewhere). A bloke I worked with pioneered protection methods that along with the sea, Sussex Downs and the right soil condition meant that they survived pretty well here.

 

elm disease - Brighton & Hove City Council

[Flying Pig]

Did you know, that there are no Dutch Elms left in the UK? Disgusting, absolutely disgusting.

 

Why are they 'Dutch' elms If they lived here?Surely the would have had a british passport and therefore been British Elms. Hope this helps.

[Flying Pig]

Pigeons are the only bird that can recognise its own image in a mirror.

[Juniper]

Al Capone pioneered 'sell by' dates. He did so after he'd taken over Chicago's milk industry, which was far more lucrative than liqueur.

 

 

I'd neg you if that wasnt such a cool fact. Recycling facebook updates, pure wrong.

 

The moon orbits Earth at 2,288 miles per hour.

[smokinsteve]

Whiskey is indeed a clear spirit.......

[hamstrung]

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch procejt at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosnt mttaer waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae.

[Section_31]

I'd neg you if that wasnt such a cool fact. Recycling facebook updates, pure wrong.

 

The moon orbits Earth at 2,288 miles per hour.

 

Fresh produce and organised crime are my favourite subjects.

[Trumo]

Apparently*, if you whisk some ordinary granulated sugar into a bowl of cum, you can make meringues out of it. No need to add salt to help stiffen the mixture either. If you lance that boil that's been nagging you for weeks, you get a substitute for cream. Empty a few period-encrusted Tampaxs over it, and you have the basics for a raspberry pavlova.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*I had to ask this person whether or not Melchett was their alter-ego. Turns out it wasn't as they have no clue who Melchett is, but like minds and all that!

[Flying Pig]

Fleas are really tiny and elephants are really big.

[smokinsteve]

You can do jail for shooting a swan..

 

Even though they taste just like chicken..

[Johnni]

101 Dalmatians and Wendy in Peter Pan are the only two Disney films with both parents that are present and don't die throughout the movie.

 

All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20

[The Chief]

Every single living being on the face of the Earth has been in 'debt' since September the 25Th, the calculations for resource debt say that the resources that are meant to last for a whole year ran out on that day:

 

The world goes into "ecological debt" today with the planet's resources already used up for the year.

And figures show that as early as January 4 this year every Briton had generated more carbon emissions than someone in Tanzania will do until Christmas.

 

The global recession has only marginally slowed the trend of over-consuming, said a New Economics Foundation (NEF) report.

 

The day on which we have used up our annual "budget" of natural resources has arrived only a day later than last year.

 

The report said the overall trend over the past two decades had been for the world to go into the red in terms of consuming natural resources earlier and earlier each year.

 

The growing "ecological footprint" is a measure of how much land, forests and seas are used up to produce our food, energy, clothes and other goods.

 

The footprint also includes resources used up to absorb waste products such as carbon dioxide.

 

In 1995, ecological debt day fell on November 25, the NEF said.

 

The difference in consumption between rich and poor countries is stark, according to the foundation.

 

And the overuse of the world's resources is contributing to other problems, including climate change and vulnerability of food supplies, the report said.

 

The NEF warned there are "boomerang" trades in a wide array of goods, which leads to export and import of similar products across the world, wasting resources on transport.

 

For example, the UK exports 5,000 tonnes of toilet paper from the UK to Germany and imports 4,000 tonnes of loo roll back.

 

We import 22,000 tonnes of potatoes from Egypt and send 27,000 tonnes the other way.

 

Andrew Simms, NEF policy director and co-author of the report, said: "Debt-fuelled over-consumption not only brought the financial system to the edge of collapse, it is pushing many of our natural life-support systems towards a precipice.

 

"Politicians tell us to get back to business as usual, but if we bankrupt critical ecosystems no amount of government spending will bring them back."

[Trumo]

Milk chocolate was invented by Daniel Peter, who sold the concept to his neighbour Henri Nestlé. Talk about kicking yourself.

 

"Tip", the slang term used for gratuities, is the acronym for "To Insure Promptness."

 

Botanically speaking, the banana is a herb and the tomato is a fruit.

 

Carrots have zero fat content.

 

Your mouth produces 1 litre (1.8 pints) of saliva a day. Unless you're staring at Natalie Sawyer on SSN, in which case that rises exponentially.

[Paulie Dangerously]

The term "Posh" meaning upper class originated from cruises. The upper classes would want most of the sunshine on the side of the ship they were staying. Dependent on where they were cruising to this generally meant they had P.O.S.H tickets ( Port Out, Starboard Home)

[King Emlyn]

The sell by date on crisps is always a Saturday. No matter what the brand, no matter what the flavour.

[Hooch]

Probably the earliest flyswatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long stick.

[mattyq]

Bad Paulie.

Posh refers to the days of empire and regular ships to India.

Port out and starboard home is sailing on the left outbound and right inbound which means that you are on the shady side of te boat which in the days before air con would make them much cooler and far more amenable

[Hooch]

Contrary to what most people say, the most dangerous animal in the world is not the lion or the tiger or even the elephant. It's a shark riding on an elephant's back, just trampling and eating everything they see.

 

 

One legend that keeps recurring throughout history, in every culture, is the story of Popeye.....Probably.

[Section_31]

Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian, she was Macedonian. Her family were put in place as the ruling clan in Egypt after it was conquered by Alexander the Great.

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

Phil Mitchell from Eastenders used to be Bungle from Rainbow

 

He still is, but without the suit.

[Paulie Dangerously]

In the days of old when battles were fought in vast fleets of sailed Galleons hundreds of cannon balls were stored on metal frames known as Brass Monkeys. In exceptionally cold weather the metal on the frames would contract making the cannon balls fall off...giving birth to a popular phrase...

[The Chief]

The sell by date on crisps is always a Saturday. No matter what the brand, no matter what the flavour.

 

I can hear the crisp packets being checked from here!! Mainly because I've just checked every packet in the house, and it's all true!!!*

 

 

 

 

 

 

Errrm, not really.

[Hooch]

I like Bacon.

[Total Longo]

If you say hello to an Eddie Stobart driver he is obliged to say hello back otherwise he could lose his job.

 

A world apart from Norbert Dentressangle, the miserable bastards.

 

Norbert Dentressangle sounds like the firm to work for. NORBERT DENTRESSANGLE!!!

 

I bet he says his name like James Bond as well, old Norbs, to the shexy ladiesh at the partiesh.

 

"You have a world reknowned haulage company you say? And what is this company called?"

"It's named after me"

"and what is your name?"

"The name is Dentressangle. Norbert Dentressangle. Licensed to haul"

 

Bet he gets tonnes of clunge as well.