Tell Me Something I Don't Know!

[Bedfordblue]

Ceefax is 50 years old apparently. Shame the bbc killed it off 12 years ago.

Felt that long for a page refresh.

 

[kev]

This thread is turning into Groucho’s fact hunt part 2.

Tell me something I don't know

 

[NeilMorepies]

This thread is turning into Groucho’s fact hunt part 2.

Show us your Chocolate Fingers mate!!

 

[degsy]

The main US rifle in WW1 was based on The German Mauser. The Yanks liked the mechanicals of it some much they bought the rights to manufacture it for their own military.
All through WW1 and beyond they were paying royalties to the Germans

 

[Cels]

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[HalfTimeSayers]

Each circle of paper pushed out when you use a hole punch (that people litter office carpets with usually near the bin when emptying the hole punch) is called a chad.

 

[datblygu]

The 3 hour and 15 minute flight from Perth to Kununurra doesn't even leave the state of Western Australia. (That is in a standard Boeing 737)

My dad once drove from Adelaide to Perth (in the 70s) along the longest straight road in the world. He says there were dead kangaroos all along the side of the road and dead eagles which had been attracted by the rotten meat then hit by trucks.

 

[Leylo]

My dad once drove from Adelaide to Perth (in the 70s) along the longest straight road in the world. He says there were dead kangaroos all along the side of the road and dead eagles which had been attracted by the rotten meat then hit by trucks.

Sounds like dunningsbridge road

 

[WA Toffee]

My dad once drove from Adelaide to Perth (in the 70s) along the longest straight road in the world. He says there were dead kangaroos all along the side of the road and dead eagles which had been attracted by the rotten meat then hit by trucks.

That stretch of road is also home to the longest golf course in the world

 

[carlos21]

Felt that long for a page refresh.

Hello lad.

 

[arch stanton]

Tell me something I don't know

I see what you did there

 

[arch stanton]

Each circle of paper pushed out when you use a hole punch (that people litter office carpets with usually near the bin when emptying the hole punch) is called a chad.

remember the 'hanging chads' from the Bush election for POTUS? There was a bit of a kerfuffle over them

 

[Kurt.]

My dad once drove from Adelaide to Perth (in the 70s) along the longest straight road in the world. He says there were dead kangaroos all along the side of the road and dead eagles which had been attracted by the rotten meat then hit by trucks.

Not surprised if they’re all driving in the 70’s…. Slow down ffs

 

[Kurt.]

I thought of a fantastic thread this morning whilst driving to my office… couldn’t remember what it was when I got there. Sorry guys.

 

[Rita_Poon]

I thought of a fantastic thread this morning whilst driving to my office… couldn’t remember what it was when I got there. Sorry guys.

I'll have a four pack of litres of vodka, pay you in January if I get there...