Random Knowledge / Facts

[prUnE]

Canadian soldier, Corporal Rob Furlong holds the record for the longest range confirmed kill in combat at 2,430 meters ( over 1.5 miles ), using a McMillan Tac50 .50 rifle in Afghanistan in 2002.

1 Furlong = 201.168 metres. A furlong consists of 40 rods, poles, or perches; 8 furlongs equal one statute mile. Its literal meaning is ‘furrow-long’, and refers to the length of a furrow in the common field characteristic of medieval farming.

 

[Judge Mental]

In 1924, at the Bronx Zoo and using a dynamometer, a 135lb chimpanzee registered a one handed pull of 1,260lbs.

As a comparison, in the same tests, a 165lb man could only manage 210lbs.

 

[SlyReaper]

Note to self: never challenge a chimp to an arm wrestle.

 

[fanger]

Fact - The Elephant Shrew never closes it's eyes.

 

[Azagoth]

A common fruit male fruit fly is about 2mm in length, the female is about 2.5mm in length. The male's sperm is 1.76mm in length and he produces hundreds of the little buggers at a time.

That's equivalent to you knocking one out and spraying the room with Conger Eels.

 

[Mobius 1]

A common fruit male fruit fly is about 2mm in length, the female is about 2.5mm in length. The male's sperm is 1.76mm in length and he produces hundreds of the little buggers at a time.

That's equivalent to you knocking one out and spraying the room with Conger Eels.

imagine trying to clean up that mess.

 

[Le_Petit_Lapin]

Automatic Shotguns should be called crowd pleaser's.

 

[JBuk]

David Graf , better known as "Tackleberry" from the Police Academy movies died of a heart attack 9 days before his 51st birthday whilst at a family wedding, his father and grandfather also died of heart attacks, both at the age of 51

 

[Pulsar_GTI]

When you kill a bee / wasp and it lets out the scent for others to attack ... the smell is similar to bananas ... so never eat a banana by a bee /wasps hive/nest

 

[Azagoth]

Bungle, from Rainbow, likes to wear striped pyjamas when in bed. Yet bizarrely, he takes them off and walks around naked during the day.

 

[Pulsar_GTI]

^^^ lolz!

 

[[DOD]Asprilla]

The Japanese word for suit is Sebiro, after Savile Row, the traditional tailor's street in London.

 

[Viper²]

The Chupa Chups logo was designed by Salvador Dali.

 

[ElvisFan]

Ethanethiol is the smelliest substance in existence, and the threshold for human detection is one part in 2.8 billion parts of air.

And I once spilled a 250ml bottle of it.

 

[Tefal]

imagine trying to clean up that mess.

Just open the door, it will clean it's self up

 

[yantorsen]

Mr. Blobby was designed by my uncle Bernard Hayes

 

[Knubje]

I know the person who made this thread, IRL

 

[SourChipmunk]

Brothers in Arms by Dire Straights was the first album available on CD.

Untrue. The first album officially released was Billy Joel's 52nd Street. Brother In Arms was the first one that was fully digital (DDD) (Digital tape recorder used during initial recording, mixing/editing and for mastering.).

The longest word that can be spelt on the top line of a qwerty keyboard is "Typewriter"

The longest word that can be spelt with one hand from the standard home row is 'stewardesses'.

 

[SourChipmunk]

The IBM Roadrunner is currently the world's fastest computer at 1.026 PFLOPS (1,026,000,000,000,000 Floating point Operations Per Second).

Compare this to the Cray X-MP in 1982, which was capable of 800 MFLOPS (800,000,000), or the current fastest PC at 51 GFLOPS (51,000,000,000).

 

[Von Smallhausen]

Mike Tyson was the youngest heavyweight chamion in history when he beat Trevor Berbick for the WBC championship in 1986, aged 20.

The previous youngest champion was ........ who ?