Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them use to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired." The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672. More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes. A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. Typing google into google breaks the internet
Bananas are herbs. A pineapple takes 18 months to grow. the 1st soil samples from the moon where taken using a Black and Decker drill. the smooth texture of cadburys milk chocolate was orginally produced using chicken livers.
I tried, but it didn't work - obviously. You wouldn't be reading this if it did The results page looks weird, it took a bit to figure out that there's no google ads along the side. Anyway, my useless factet of the day: The name Wendy was made up by JM Barrie for the book Peter Pan.
useless facts Trivia is the Roman goddess of sorcery, hounds and the crossroads. A "sysygy" occurs when all the planets of the our Solar System line up useless laws You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina In Idaho a citizen is forbidden by law to give another citizen a box of candy that weighs more than 50 pounds.
The word "Trivia" is precisely that - "Crossroads". In the time of the great roman empire, a notice board could be found at all crossroads, and was used as a central point for people nearby to post important news, intersting pieces of information etc. "Caecillius has lost a foot - have you found it?" "It is likely to rain on Thursday." "Caesar is looking for a new head executioner!" etc. As such, the word was produced from "Tri Via" - or literally, "Three Roads". Ahh I love etymology. Also - as another random rule: in Texas, you can't take a photograph of a man with a wooden leg... ... you have to use a camera.
The homophone (sounds the same) in English with the most alternative spellings (including proper nouns) is air, Ayr, Aire, heir, hair, hare, ere, etc. with 38. Spoiler List the rest yourself, you idle barsteward, I can't be arsed, so there. xxx xxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxxx xxxxx xxx xxxx Despite both being common, only two English words include the letter sequence 'gry'. Spoiler angry, hungry
Glass is a liquid (but just incredibly, immensely viscous. This can be observed with very very old stained glass windows, which actually become thicker at the bottom than at the top). Norway has more coastline than the continental united states. Pepsi had to change their advertising campaign in China - their tagline "come alive with the pepsi generation" inadvertantly got translated on thousands of promotional items and adverts to "Pepsi will bring your dead relatives back from the grave". The most commonly used oxymoron in the english language? "Microsoft Works" There is actually (I regularly used to walk past it) a Siemens office in Staines. Internally referred to as "Siemens Staines". Coca Cola, due to the fact it is essentially a vegetable extract drink, was originally a dark murky green. (So for some reason, they thought poo brown was a better colour). Police officers are technically breaking the law when passing through red lights in a chase - same goes for ambulances and fire engines - however, once paperwork is filed, this is not upheld against them. The only person truly allowed to jump a red traffic light is a postman delivering a declaration of war. SUBARU spelt backwards is "U R A Bus" A blue whale's main artery is so large a human could actually swim in it. The monkey on the front of Coco Pops is not real. He's a cartoon. If the space between the nucleus and electrons of all atoms was removed, the universe would fit into a container just over 1cm cubed. 74% of statistics are just made up. Including this one. It is impossible to say "Beer Can" without sounding like a Jamaican saying "Bacon". and my absolute favourite: I've just been paid to sit here and write all this.
Now I'm fairly sure this isn't true. Old glass pane manufacturing techniques generally made panes thicker at one end, usually you can find window panes where it's thicker at the top.
No, I watched something ages ago, if you look at any old glass pain you can see distortions due to it moving, it is thinner at the top and all over it has various patterns.
"Glass is generally treated as an amorphous solid rather than a liquid, though both views can be justified.[19] However, the notion that glass flows to an appreciable extent over extended periods of time is not supported by empirical research or theoretical analysis (see viscosity of amorphous materials)." According to that bastion of always truthful knowledge that is wikipedia anyhow
The QI book says: 'It's a solid. You may have heard that glass is a liquid which has cooled but not crystallised, and which just flows fantastically slowly. This is untrue - glass is a bona fide solid. In support of the assertion that glass is a liquid, people often point to old church windows, where the glass is thicker at the bottom of the pane. The reason for this is not that the glass has flowed over time, but that medieval glaziers sometimes couldn't cast perfectly uniform sheets of glass. When that happened, they preferred to stand the glass into the window with the thick edge at the bottom, for obvious reasons. The confusion about whether glass is a liquid or solid stems from a misreading of the work of German physicist Gustav Tammann (1861-1938) who studied glass and described it's behaviour as it solidifies. He observed that the molecular structure of glass is irregular and disordered, unlike the neat arrangement of molecules in, say, metals. Reaching for an analogy, he compared it to 'a frozen super- cooled liquid'. But saying glass is like a liquid doesn't mean it is a liquid. These days, solids are categorised as either crystalline or amorphous. Glass is an amorphous solid.' Pages 50-51, The Book of General Ignorance. ISBN 0-571-23368-6 NB: Those are not my hands.
By the same reasoning lead (and many other solids) could also be classed as super-viscous liquids (which they're not); due to creep, the lead lower down church roofs or at the bottom of vertical pipework gets thicker over the centuries. The jet engine had to wait for suitable creep-resistant alloys to be developed before the idea became practical.
Coca Cola are also one of the world's largest consumers of coca leaves, used in the production of cocaine. One of the ingredients of Coke is decocainised coca leaves (coca leaves with the narcotics removed). The other main consumer of coca leaves in the US is the pharmaceutical industry. What this means is that there are places that grow coca legally, mainly in the more stable Central American countries. You LIE! Does that included all of the vast regions of space with only a few molecules per sq m? But on 56% of people believe that...
If you bred a bull dog and a Shih Tzu you would have a bull shih Largest Lake: The Caspian Sea, at 143,244 square miles (371,000 square kilometers), is the largest lake in the World. It is a salt-water lake. Largest Freshwater Lake: Lake Superior on the U.S.-Canada border is 31,700 square miles (82,100 square kilometers) and the world's largest fresh water lake. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb. A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do. The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated. Polar bears are left handed. The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds. The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field. A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death. The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off. Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
Gryphon. Yeah, that is my understanding too. Mind you, who appointed the QI publishers as experts on all things trivia??
St. John's Wood is the only London Tube station that doesn't have any of the letters from the word Mackerel.
go piggy gooooooooo Amongst them? Not bad, but go piggy gooooooo 1 in every 5 people is chinese One out of four American households own a cat. 8 out of 10 modders own a cat (I just made this up, but I'm not far off) Under extreme stress, some octopuses will eat their own arms. Heptopuses, hexopuses, pentopuses,... On average redheads have 90,000 hairs. People with black hair have about 110,000 hairs. On average, four people a day call Graceland and ask for Elvis Astronaut Neil Armstrong first stepped on the moon with his left foot. The Sumerians, who lived in the Middle East, invented the wheel in about 3450 BC. According to Illinois state law, it is illegal to speak English. The officially recognized language is "American". No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple. "The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is supposed to be the toughest tongue twister in English. Damn that pig must be a happy animal.
Ramble is correct, the glass was made that way. Glass is indeed a liquid but it would take longer than the age of the universe to show any movement in it.
