Little-known facts

[ChicagoBlue]

You wouldn’t think it, but the diameter of a basketball hoop is within a fraction of an inch of being twice the diameter of a basketball.

 

[ChicagoBlue]

The Olympic Torch Relay began at the ‘36 Berlin Olympics, as a Nazi propaganda event.

 

[ChicagoBlue]

The dot over the letter i is called a tittle...

 

[oakiecokie]

You’ll always be a Queen to me.

Hahha.Twat.I asked for that.

 

[i kne albert davy]

I didn’t know this till yesterday but in The Great Escape, when they filmed the scene with Steve McQueen on the motorcycle, they used a stunt double when he was trying to jump the barbed wire into Switzerland. However McQueen was actually one of the following Germans.

Despite the film there were no Americans involved in the Great Escape.

 

[BlueMojito]

Only 3 of the smoke stack chimneys on Titanic worked. The 4th was purely for decoration.

 

[i kne albert davy]

Only 3 of the smoke stack chimneys on Titanic worked. The 4th was purely for decoration.

For you colonials they're called funnels.

 

[Magicpole]

For you colonials they're called funnels.

Well said. Fucking smoke stacks?

Something needs to be done.

 

[feelymcfeel]

Tyrannosaurus Rex was extant closer to the present day than it was to Stegosaurus.
Cleopatra was alive closer to the present day than she was the building of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
If the Earth was shrunk to the size of a pool ball, the Earth would be smoother in your hand.
When the star Betelgeuse explodes (it's the orangey looking one at Orion's shoulder), it will be brighter than the moon at night, and easily visible in broad daylight for about 2-3 months, despite being around 640 light years away.

 

[blueish swede]

Geographically Burnley is equidistant from Liverpool and Manchester. Points wise Liverpool are equidistant from City and Burnley.