h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Ignore typos. You reallly believe my keybsodfkordrd loves me?

I hate keyboards, I have to type most things twice to get rid of typos

The first human killed by a robot was a Kawasaki factory worker in 1981. The revolution began 29 years ago and you didn't even know it.

(I, for one, welcome our Robot Overlords.)

It isn´t over yet either, they are just getting sneakier:

http://www.thelocal.se/19120.html

The Betz coefficient, which is the theoretical maximum amount of power wind turbines can take from the wind, is 0.59.

That's only a useless fact in isolation. In context, it's a very useful fact.

Your penance is three Hail 2 Legs and one Our Nighthoover

It *is* in isolation.

Well say the penance on your own too then

Hitler dated 3 women in his lifetime - all 3 attempted suicide, and 2 succeeded.

So did his niece.

what????


his niece dated hitler

Carrots are orange because the Dutch cultivated them to be that color as a tribute to William of Orange in the 17th century. Natural varieties vary in color between white, red, yellow and purple.

I don't really want a purple carrot

If you leave a carrot in the back of fridge, after a few weeks it changes its colour as a tribute to Gordon Brown.

What, wrinkly and sprouting?

Nah he means that David Camron picks on it

The first king of the English ("King of the Anglo-Saxons") was King Alfred.

Tutankhamun managed to change Egypt without actually doing anything. He just let Ay make the decisions (Well, he was only a kid at the time)

In the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the word 'viking' is seldom used for the Norse invaders. Usually they're just described as 'the force', one occasion when people didn't want 'the force' to be with them.

Your thumb is the same length as your nose.