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malc30 said:
The initials are the Bayerische Motoren Werke but the sign in the middle represents an aircrafts propeller.
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There was a TV show on a while ago, Megafactories I think it was, where they visited teh BMW factory. One of the head honchos from BMW rubbished the aicraft propellor theory and said it was solely based on the Bavarian flag!
 
mame said:
The MP in MP3 means moving picture.
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Incorrect:

Wiki said:
MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression. It is a common audio format for consumer audio storage, as well as a de facto standard of digital audio compression for the transfer and playback of music on digital audio players.
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A few QI fans on here I think...:D

Things I know off the top of my head...

A bolt of lightning can be upto three times hotter than the surface of the Sun

The largest wave ever witnessed was in 1958 at Lituya Bay, Alaska at a record 500m high caused by a massive landslide into the fjord

The planet Uranus axial tilt is 98 degress so its north pole actually becomes its equator :D by comparison the Earth's is only 23 degrees
 
NeoNemesis said:
You are incorrect sir. The Jeep as we know it was originally simply known as the "general purpose military vehicle", GP for short - Became Jeep through american slur and the fog of war.
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Your both wrong. After owning one it stands for "Just Empty Every Pocket":D
 
This is impressive....

If a person has two- thirds of their liver removed from trauma or surgery, it will grow back to its original size in four weeks time!
 
A Bit About Google

Caffeine lets us index web pages on an enormous scale. In fact, every second Caffeine processes hundreds of thousands of pages in parallel. If this were a pile of paper it would grow three miles taller every second. Caffeine takes up nearly 100 million gigabytes of storage in one database and adds new information at a rate of hundreds of thousands of gigabytes per day. You would need 625,000 of the largest iPods to store that much information; if these were stacked end-to-end they would go for more than 40 miles.
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http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/our-new-search-index-caffeine.html

Rich
 
malc30 said:
After the recent encouragement on these here Boards I have started writing my book, It is the first of Three that I already have in my head.
Titles have been sorted & I am building up loads of folders with chapters as & when I think of them.

I Thank you all for the encouragement. :cool:
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:eek:

Signed copy please!! :cool:

Shame DVDBunny's book never happened tbh :(
 
If you expanded an apparently smooth table tennis ball to the size of the earth, it would have valleys 10 miles deep and mountains 10 miles high.
 
-Tauren- said:
A newborn baby has 350 bones, but a fully- grown adult has only 206. :p
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But ... but where do they go? Mind officially blown.

Content : road traffic lights go from red (stop) straight to green (go) in New Zealand. Amber is not used. So yeah, this sounded more interesting before I started typing it out ...
 
The US F-22 Raptor costs $150 million per unit making it the most expensive fighter plane ever produced.

By comparison, an F-14 Tomcat cost around $38 million before being retired in 2006.
 
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