Most interesting fact you've found via web / Google

Alain Quay

Recently I heard the brilliant Bob Dyland song 'Hurricane' and it was intriguing to look up
what had become of the characters mentioned
e,g.
Alfred Bello had a partner and he had a rap for the cops.
Him and Arthur Dexter Bradley were just out prowlin around
He said, I saw two men runnin out, they looked like middleweights
They jumped into a white car with out-of-state plates.
And Mss Patty Valentine just nodded her head.
Cop said, wait a minute, boys, this ones not dead

http://www.lyricsfreak.com/b/bob+dylan/ ... 21332.html

Mosschops2

Recently - last couple of days anyway:

That a donut (with a hole) shape is called a torus.

(just the surface, not solid I think)

jibi

On Google images or in Picasa

I search for photos that have the same filename as some of mine,

I take the camera given filename , eg PICXXXXX.jpg

get some strange results

Note to self
must get a life

george

ju5t1n

I found the cyclingplus forum on Google, it was a while before I found out about the magazine

ColinJ

I was looking for photographs of the Fred Whitton Challenge and I stumbled across this set of video clips of my Costa Blanca training camp in March - small world, eh!

Crapaud

It may not be the most interesting fact, but it's the one that finally sold the internet to me and made me buy a computer to go on-line.

The Earth has 2 moons! The second one's called Cruithne after an Irish King.

At the time I only got 3 hits. This was one of them:
http://burtleburtle.net/bob/physics/cruithne.html

Bronzie

That next years TdF will be won by a woman............................
http://www.associatedcontent.com/articl ... inner.html

passout

Surely the Earth doesn't have two moons?

Americans, some considerable time ago, considered making German their national language. That really would have changed history.

Crapaud

passout wrote:
Surely the Earth doesn't have two moons?

Strange, but true!

LangerDan

That the father of poet and musician Gil Scott-Heron was one of the first black professional footballers in the UK and the first black player to play with Celtic.

heavymental

That Well'Ard...the dog out of Eastenders, also starred in Gladiator. Its a Belgian Shperd Dog I think.

Google settles no end of random arguments/discussions

jibi

I once found Paris Hilton........ with clothes on!!!!!!

Kaipaith

Heavymental wrote:

Google settles no end of random arguments/discussions

At an old job during quiet moments we used to have "Internet Challenges" whereby a random question was asked, often involving how someone famous died. The winner was the person who got the answer first.

I won quite a lot, which I would be proud of, but as well as being a winner it also kinda made me a bit of a loser too.

passout

Baseball was invented in Yorkshire. There are still old leagues that play there. America has invented an alternative history/mythology to disguise this fact.

heavymental

I believe the one we had most trouble with was finding out how old Moira Stewart is. I forget if we found the answer or not but apparently she keeps it very secret.

MrKawamura

The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card. Fact.

MrKawamura

Most lipstick contains fish scales. Fact. Unsettling news for some of you lads.

MrKawamura

Porcupines float in water. Fact.

MrKawamura

Oh, look, I've reached 100 posts. Fact. And here's another contender:

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds. Fact.

Oh, sorry I misread the title of the post - it said the most interesting fact. Sorry.

passout

Cyclists live, on average, ten years longer than the national average.
That probably doesn't apply to couriers in London!

Crapaud

Jibi wrote:
I once found Paris Hilton........ with clothes on!!!!!!

passout wrote:
Baseball was invented in Yorkshire. There are still old leagues that play there. America has invented an alternative history/mythology to disguise this fact.

MrKawamura wrote:
Porcupines float in water. Fact.

I flatly refuse to believe the Paris Hilton one without evidence! Evidence for the other 2 would be nice too.

babyjebus

passout wrote:

Americans, some considerable time ago, considered making German their national language. That really would have changed history.

This is not true, though often cited. See http://www.snopes.com/language/apocryph/german.asp for the facts.

Knoxville, Tennessee is the capital of US mirror ball manufacture.

sonicred007

old music is better than new music

L60N

I found a site where you can download free porn.

jibi

I had forgotten all about myfreepaysite

Is it still going??

george

grayo59

The Supermarine Spiteful (1945) with a top speed of 494 mph in level flight - was the fastest piston-engined fighter aeroplane to fly before the end of WW2 (It never saw action tho'.) It was faster by 1 mph than the fastest British jet fighter to see action in WW2 - the Gloster Meteor Mk3.

The City of Truro 4-4-0 steam locomotive was unlikely to have reached 100mph in 1904 despite this being treated as fact by many for over one hundred years.



The Americans didn't win WW2 on their own. (I knew that already )

suspectdevice

A ducks quack DOES echo.
Well I never

http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/duckecho.asp

owaingibby

Heavymental
I believe the one we had most trouble with was finding out how old Moira Stewart is. I forget if we found the answer or not but apparently she keeps it very secret.

Apparently she's 57.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/commen ... 890235.ece

Just thought I'd put the answer to that one here.

ddraver

Heavymental wrote:

That Well'Ard...the dog out of Eastenders, also starred in Gladiator. Its a Belgian Shperd Dog I think.

Google settles no end of random arguments/discussions

NEVER!!!! thats awesome

My personal favourite (in a similar vein) is that the first character from Friends to appear on a film was Maurice - who was the monkey in Outbreak

brasso

"Almost" is the longest commonly used word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order

Rob Sallnow

Carbon Fibre was invented by....the British!!! 8)