The Bluemoon interesting fact thread.

[Cellarite]

El Presidente was never elected.

He was chosen though.

Northerners stink

That's the sweet smell of success. I reckon it's long since faded from your FA Cup win back in 1980.

 

[mrt4919]

Name the only team to win away at the swamp in 3 successive seasons



Yes

Its gods own football club

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

In that fantastic series 'The Wire', the Homicide detective sergeant Jay Landsman was based on a real-life Baltimore detective sergeant of the same name. The real Jay Landsman actually appeared in the series, playing Lieutenant Dennis Mello, who was assistant to Major Colvin.

 

[Challenger1978]

The permeability of free space is 4pie x 10^-7

 

[stony]

Enterprising British soldiers during the Peninsular war sliced the buttocks off dead French soldiers, smoked them, and sold them as joints of ham.
This may be true or it may be a very early urban myth.

 

[BigJoe#1]

The seven vital functions of all living organisms are:

Movement
Irritability
Growth
Nutrition
Excretion
Respiration
Reproduction

and Protoplasm, every living cell has it, though it is not a function per say.

Learned this in Biology in 1972 and has stuck with me since. The teachers says just remember the word MIGNERRP and you'll never forget them.

 

[BlueBearBoots]

Your feet measure the same as the distance between your elbow and your wrist

 

[East Level 2]

The permeability of free space is 4pie x 10^-7

Does that have units or is it a constant?
And do we get to choose the type of the 4 pies?
And are they proper pies - you know the sort with pastry all around not the stupid ones you get in pubs with just a pastry top?

 

[Blue Mist]

The letters on a QWERTY keyboard start on the left with the letters QWERTY.

 

[Yaya_Tony]

Birds are the evolution of dinosaurs.