Randomised Trivia thread

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Originally posted by Rumple Foreskin
At 840,000 square miles, Greenland is the largest island in the world. It is three times the size of Texas. By comparison, Iceland is only 39,800 square miles

What about mainland Australia? classed as an island also

The Olympic games only fall on a leap year
 
Originally posted by Sage
Fastest Chip   The world's fastest microprocessor is the Alpha 21164, developed by Digital Equipment Corporation of Maynard, MA. It can run at 300 MHz.

Talk about progress... (!)
You mean GHz?
 
Originally posted by Joey
You mean GHz?
No. That's why I mentioned progress.

Originally posted by M5Power
You aren't an "LAian."
I live in Castaic. Castaic is in L.A. county. What part of that do you not comprehend? Ooh, and I'm going to the L.A. Auto Show this year! Wasn't the Rose Bowl awesome?

You don't even know where Santa Monica is.
I told you, California's the size of a bajillion Rhode Islands. How am I supposed to know?

I want your CLK.
 
-in the beginning of "Stairway to heaven" by led zeppelin, the flute sounds were performed by john paul jones on a keyboard.
-the name "in a gadda da vida" from the famed song by iron butterfly was a misnuderstanding from the bands manager when he asked the band's vocalist, Doug Ingle, what was the name of the song they had been playing. Ingle, totally drunk, said something like "in a gadda da vida". he really wanted to say "in the garden of eden". The album in wich this song is included is the first album certified with a "platinum disc", selling over one million copies.
-pigs have orgasms that last for 30 minutes.
-dolphins are the only animals, beside humans, that have sex for pleasure.
-the first pony car was really the Plymouth Barracuda, released two weeks before Ford's Mustang.
-The guitar solo in the kinks' "You really got me" is really performed by Jimmy page (in that time, a session guitarrist, later Led Zeppelin's) and not by Dave Davies.
-in a crash, to avoid that a baby would be thrown out of the car, you'd need to grab him with the same force you'd need to lift a mid-size car. the baby is thrown with 600kg of force.
-to pass another car, you need to drive at least 100 meters on the other lane.
-if lined up, the amount of hot dogs consumed by the avergae american would go 13 times around the earth.
- a coke is opened every second in the world.
-if lined up, every hot wheels car produced to date would go 4 times around the earth.
-elephants cant stand on their rear feet only.
-the animal with the smallest brain is the turkey.

true.

Cano
 
Originally posted by Cano
-dolphins are the only animals, beside humans, that have sex for pleasure.
That's wrong. Some monkeys do it too.

Originally posted by Cano
-to pass another car, you need to drive at least 100 meters on the other lane.
:odd: What if the other car is doing 2mph and you are in a McLaren F1?
 
Originally posted by daan
That's wrong. Some monkeys do it too.

Bwa-ha! It's apes!

Bonobos - genetically the closest species to man - really, REALLY enjoy sex. They have sex with any other member of their species, and quite a wide range of plants too.


Mainland Australia is no longer classed as an island, but a "Continental Land Mass".
 
Originally posted by Famine
Bwa-ha! It's apes!
Ooook

And Darin, yes it's a long ass post, but why did you have to quote it so that I have to scroll thru it again? :p
 
Originally posted by Darin
Thats a long ass post....:eek:
So was it strictly neceesary to repeat the bloody thing, just to comment on its length?
:dunce:

To amplify Famine's comment about banobo chimps, I will also note that banobos also regularly have recreational sex of both the heterosexual and homosexual varieties. So I don't want to hear another damn word about "It just ain't natural..." out of you homophobes.
 
Originally posted by neon_duke
To amplify Famine's comment about banobo chimps, I will also note that banobos also regularly have recreational sex of both the heterosexual and homosexual varieties. So I don't want to hear another damn word about "It just ain't natural..." out of you homophobes.

Thing is, not only do they enjoy "normal" sex, along with homosexual/lesbian (yes really) and threesomes, they also bonk their young...
 
Originally posted by neon_duke
So was it strictly neceesary to repeat the bloody thing, just to comment on its length?
No problem, I got it fixed! :D
 
The shortest movie titles ever are: "F" (2000), "G" (1983 & 2000), "H" (1990, 1995, & 2002), "i" (1998), "J" (2000), "K" (1997 & 2002), "L" (1961 & 2002), "M" (1931, 1951, & 1986), "O" (2001 & 2002), "P" (1964), "Q" (1982, 2002, & 2002 again), "U" (2003), "V" (1984 & 2003), "W" (1974, 1983, & 2003), "X" (1963, 1970, 1986, 1996, & 2002), "Y" (1992 & 2002), "Z" (1969), "2" (2002), "3" (1971, 1977, 1995, & 2003), "4" (1995, 1998, & 2001), "5" (2002), and "6" (2004)
 
Originally posted by Darin
Damn, he snipped it good.
And you snipped it even more. :odd:

Erm, daan, don't you think it's time for the... um... animal (?) to lose its Christmas garb? ;)
 
Well, you can't hate 'im... ;) Actually, for the longest time I thought he was an owl, until I actually looked at it today!
 
Originally posted by daan
Probably, although you've hurt his feelings with the "um... animal (?)" comment! :( He's a flying puppy playing guitar to the song "gaybar." I'm just surprised he's not appeared in the most hated avatar thread yet. :eek:

:p ;)
www.rathergood.com rules. I didn't even have to follow your link to know it. I'm just glad I got my Viking kittens T-shirt before Swan Song Records shut them down! I still go to watch the Notherner pub kittens play "Independent Woman".
 
The longest stretch of straight railway line is over the Nullabor plain, AUS, stretches for 478km(297miles) and is dead straight

Longest train ever was 7353km long, had 8 diesel-electric locomotives and pulled 682 ore cars
 
Originally posted by Bollocks#999
Longest train ever was 7353km long
Now that's just bollocks!! :p Something not quite right there! Did you mean to put that "k" there?
 
yeah got it from here:
http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/
goto tavel/transport then click on Long freighter, didnt believe it myself

But this is from a publication that claims Alain Prost still holds the record for the most amount of wins in F1@51, and Fangio still holds the record for championships, yet has Michael Schumacherin the for most wins in a season at 11 in 2002 when he went past Prost's record go figure
 
Aaaah, there's a point in there. It's 7.353km or 7353m.
Heaviest Freight Train
The heaviest-ever train weighed 99,732.1 tonnes (220 million lb) and was 7.353 km (4,568 miles) long. Assembled by Australia's BHP Iron Ore, the train travelled 275 km (171 miles) from the company's Newman and Yandi mines to Port Hedland, Western Australia, on June 21, 2001 The train had 5,648 wheels, and was assembled to test out a new train control system, which essentially allows the driver in the front locomotive to control the other seven engines simultaneously, even though they are spaced at intervals of nearly a kilometre along the length of the train.
It's still bloody long!!


Interesting factet of my own now.

Gordon Murray first drew the design for the McLaren F1 in 1969 when he was at college. http://www.davidanderson.org.uk/images/f169.jpg

When they crash tested the F1, Gordon wanted to be sitting in it at the time. He thought it "would be cool". It was the only car that was still driveable after being "driven" into a concrete wall at 30mph. (Every other car has it's front wheels smashed up.) The only thing that didn't make it road legal was the headlights popped out!
http://www.davidanderson.org.uk/images/f1crash.jpg
 
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