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    Did you know...

    I'm sure that many of us are finding things challenging at present. And our thoughts are with those who are undergoing an even worse time of it than we are.

    That said, I'm not one of those who visits TZ to argue. I have enough stress offline.

    Sometimes it helps to have threads that are a distraction. Light relief. I'm hoping this might be one of those.

    No rules apart from Eddie's. Ephemera and whimsy are encouraged. Definitely no shouting although rational disagreement is welcome.

    Alright.

    Did you know that there is a Veblen hierarchy?
    Yes. Apparently so. Don't tell the Swiss manufacturers.

    *blows dust off a weighty tome*

    It says here... hang on, let me put my glasses on... that in mathematics, the Veblen functions are a hierarchy of normal functions (continuous strictly increasing functions from ordinals to ordinals).

    *blank faces*

    Yes, I'm not quite sure what it means. I think an ordinal might be a bird.

    *phone rings*

    "Hello? Yes, this is he. Yes, fine weather. Yes, things are bad. Anyway, how can I help? You know what an ordinal is? I see... yes... I see. Is it? Well. Thanks for calling. Good day."

    Nope, still no idea.

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    Baby Sea Otters can’t swim. They have to learn even though they are born in the water. The layer of air trapped in their fur keeps them afloat until they learn.

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    1. Dolph Lundgren has an IQ of 160 - He has a Master’s Degree in Chemical Engineering

    2. The annual number of worldwide shark bites is 10 times less than the number of people bitten by other people in New York

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    Quote Originally Posted by watch-nut View Post
    Dolph Lundgren has an IQ of 160 - He has a Master’s Degree in Chemical Engineering
    Did you know that until I read this post and googled Dolph Lundgren, I hadn't realised that the userid Ivan Drago was taken from a film character?

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    If you were given £1 every second you'd be a millionaire in 12 days.

    To become a billionaire would take 32 years.

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    Gary Numan is older than Gary Oldman.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dynam0humm View Post
    Gary Numan is older than Gary Oldman.
    Haha, like that one

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    Random: Tom Cruise is three years older than Richard Wilson was when he took the role of Victor Meldrew in one foot in the grave


    (Picture from 2019)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Thom4711 View Post
    Random: Tom Cruise is three years older than Richard Wilson was when he took the role of Victor Meldrew in one foot in the grave


    (Picture from 2019)
    Yes, but Richard Wilson wasn't an operating thetan, as far as I know, and thus we can assume subject to the fallibility of his human body.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Thom4711 View Post
    Random: Tom Cruise is three years older than Richard Wilson was when he took the role of Victor Meldrew in one foot in the grave


    (Picture from 2019)
    I don't believe it!

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    Quote Originally Posted by wajhart View Post
    I don't believe it!

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    I'm trying to imagine Victor Meldrew in Mission Impossible but I just can't visualise it. :)

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    Brad Pitt is older than Nigel Farage.


    Honestly!

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    Lexus stands for Luxury Export to the US.

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    The same egg can produce either a worker bee or a queen bee depending on how the larvae is fed - one will live just 6 weeks while the other can live up to 6 years. I always thought that was cool.

    Then I saw an article about how they trained bees to detect explosives, and wondered how many of the six weeks that took up...

    (Ok, for the other apiarists, I acknowledge the worker lifespan is up to 6 months if you don’t have to raise larvae etc!)


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    Remember playing "tag" in the school playground?

    There's a World Championship, and it's actually quite exciting to watch - https://www.worldchasetag.com/

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    ^ I stumbled upon that on YouTube a couple months ago, and subsequently lost a few hours!

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    It takes more sylables to say the abbreviation WWW than to say world wide web.

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    Dogs can't look up

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    Quote Originally Posted by Brighty View Post
    Dogs can't look up

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    Randolph Turpin was the first Black British World Champion
    His eldest brother Dick was the first Black British Champion

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    Quote Originally Posted by RD200 View Post
    His eldest brother Dick was the first Black British Champion

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    His opponent was Vince Hawkins. Apparently he was robbed.

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    Crocodiles can’t stick their tongues out

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    The vehicle tyre manufacturer which produces the biggest volume of tyres per year?


    Michelin? Pirelli? Continental?


    Nope......



    Lego.

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    Quote Originally Posted by alfat33 View Post
    His opponent was Vince Hawkins. Apparently he was robbed.
    Long time ago, I doubt there's many witnesses still with us and it's not unheard of in boxing.

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    The bomb bay of an Avro Lancaster was half the length of it's fuselage

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    The man who invented Leaded petrol, was the same man who invented CFC’s.

    Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
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    Quote Originally Posted by petethegeek View Post
    Untrue though.

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    The vaDoma tribe from the Zimbabwe / Zambia border are famous for their inherited ectrodactyly. - the majority of them have only three fingers and toes on each hand and foot.


    First time I visited the area they live in I was genuinely shocked.

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    I really didn't know.

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    Did you know that it will give you a headache to put an apostrophe in this sentence about Lloyd's of London.

    I went to Lloyds offices.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AlphaOmega View Post
    I went to ///bunch.ports.bounty.
    Sorted.

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    PTG, I feel as if I should know what your post means.

    But I can't quite get there...

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    Keep up man, technology being useful for once!

    https://what3words.com

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    Doh!

    I have the app as well - and have actually used it to zero my location in the countryside.

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    The only band member is ZZ Top not to have a beard has the surname Beard.

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    The easy way to determine the difference between back and white rhinos is the shape of the lips. White rhino have a wide flat mouth black rhinos have narrower pointed lips. The shape of the lips is derived from what they eat, White eating grass at ground level; Black eating shoots and leaves at a higher level - the lips helping pick the leaves and shoots. However as we all know they are both grey in colour, so why are the species called black and white? It’s a mistake in translation between Afrikaans and English – “weid” or “wide” lipped rhino was mistakenly understood to be white rhino. Hence the other was called a black rhino.

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    At any given second, 6 million space bars are being hit around the world.

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    There are more atoms in a glass of water than there are stars in the observable universe.

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    During WW2 Actor Peter Butterworth was one of the vaulters covering for the escapers during the escape portrayed by the book and film*The Wooden Horse.
    Butterworth later auditioned for the film in 1949 but "didn't look convincingly heroic or athletic enough" according to the makers of the film.

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    ...that the propellant (powder) in a cartridge doesn’t explode, it burns which creates pressure.
    Started out with nothing. Still have most of it left.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Velorum View Post
    The only band member is ZZ Top not to have a beard has the surname Beard.

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    My favourite so far

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    No Kangaroo can run backwards.

    The Margbetu tribe of Africa make bracelets out of Aardvark teeth.

    Eskimos belonging to certain Germanic communities are forbidden to dance.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Velorum View Post
    The only band member is ZZ Top not to have a beard has the surname Beard.
    The actor Billy Bob Thornton is an accomplished drummer & used to be in a covers band called Tres Hombres, after the ZZ Top album. Billy Gibbons once described Thornton's band as 'the best covers band in Texas'.

    Thornton also has a ZZ Top tattoo.
    ______

    ​Jim.

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    Crab sticks don’t actually contain any crab. And from 1993, manufactures have been legally obliged to label them ‘crab flavoured sticks’.

    Another one of those same time tomorrow.

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    Barnes Wallis was a vegetarian

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    It’s illegal to hunt camels in Arizona.

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    A one-armed player scored the winning goal in the first World Cup

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    In Polynesia, the word for human flesh when eaten translates as 'long pig'.

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    I'm not too sure how comfortable I would feel visiting somewhere which has a specific "word for human flesh when eaten".

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