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

Are you splitting the hairs on my chinny-chin-chin?


~jwf~

Might alreadt have been done, but I'm not trawling through 9160 posts to find it.

CDs are 12cm in diameter because the original standard for their storage capacity was that they must fit the entirety of Beethoven's 9th Symphony.

I remember when that thing about elephants and chins was on QI. No one asked such intelligent questions as you lot then!

That sounds new to me, Mr. D. I'm not saying I've memorized 9000 facts/factoids, but I tend to recognize them when I reread them.

>>..must fit the entirety of Beethoven's 9th Symphony. <<

Imagine if he'd finished it.

~jwf~

The net weight of your standard can of Pringles is 6.38 ounces or, for the metric-minded amongst us, 181 grams.

A Blue Whale would eat 19,3337 tubes of Pringles a day, if they could only manage to tear off the foil top

There may be an extra 3 in there - 19,337 tubes

...but can blue whales vomit underwater?

Either way, that's a very precise number of Pringle's tubes.

<...but can blue whales vomit underwater?>

If they eat 19,337 tubes of the cream cheese and chive ones they can.

PP.

I expect they prefer Prawn Cocktail

There are worse flavors. http://worstthingieverate.com/post/3105190807/worst-pringles-i-ever-ate

Daniel-san, is now as old as Mr. Miyagi was in the first Karate Kid.

That's right, Ralph Macchio is now 51, the same age Noriyuki 'Pat' Morita was when The Karate Kid came out in 1984. Ralph Maccio was 23 at the time playing 17.

OK... I just found this. It might be considered useful, but not really.

Probably somewhere back in teh great backlog of this thread has been mentioned that you can't fold a piece of paper "in half" more than 7 times. That's been challenged on several occasions with either very thin paper or very thin LONG paper (like a bog roll) and non alternating folds. The record this way is 12 folds accomplished by an American high school student, Britney Gallivan, who also derived a formula describing it.( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britney_Gallivan?p=1#Paper_folding_theorem )

Here's the point. To fold a sheet of paper, or anything else for that matter, its length must be at least &#960; times its thickness.

When you think about it, it makes sense.

Failed character in previous post is Pi, 3.141582653589.

Dammit... correction. 3.141592653589

That, to me, is the very quintessence of a useless fact.

I could have gone my whole life without knowing that.

Congratulations!

Svetlana Pankratova has the world's longest legs for a female human - 51.9 inches, according to the Guinness people.

She's now a high school basketball coach in Virginia, USA.

If I were to meet here, I'd look her eye-to-belly button and say, "look here Missy!... no... down here, look down here... Now look here, Missy!..."