Teach me something new today, or random trivia......

[woodisgood]

Taco who sang "putting on the ritz" and falco who sang "rock me amadeus" are the same person.

[EndreM]

Norway produced a car from 1956 to 1958, named "Troll".

The car was made from fiberglass, and the idea was to be the first mass produced fiberglass car outside of the US.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_(automobile)

[_username_]

Raining animals is a relatively common meteorological phenomenon, with occurrences reported from many countries throughout history.
The animals most likely to drop from the sky in a rainfall are fish and frogs.
Most recent occurrences include the rain of frogs and toads in Serbia (2005) and London (1998), and rains of fish in India (2006) and Wales (2004).
In Honduras, the Lluvia de Peces (Rain of Fishes) is a unique phenomenon that has been occurring for more than a century on a yearly basis.
It occurs in the Departamento de Yoro, between the months of May and July.
Witnesses of this phenomenon state that it begins with is a dark cloud in the sky followed by lightning, thunder, strong winds and heavy rain for 2 to 3 hours.
Once the rain has stopped, hundreds of living fish are found on the ground.
People take the fish home to cook and eat them.
Although some experts have tried to explain the Rain of Fishes as a natural meteorological phenomenon, the fish are not sea water fish, but fresh water fish; they are not dead, but alive; they are not blind, they have eyes; they are not big fish, but small; and the type of fish is not found elsewhere in the area.

[bataangpinoy]

easiest way to peel raw garlic:

soak the cloves in hot water for a lil bit and then peel. they wont be sticky either.

[TurboJake]

There are 100,000 times as many stars in the universe as sounds and words ever uttered by all humans who have ever lived.

[z31maniac]

The ancient Dogon tribe in Africa knew of the existence of the star "Sirius B" long before we just recently found it with the Hubble. Sirius B is not visible to the naked eye in the night sky.

Ho reary?

Any more info?

[Holland]

The ancient Dogon tribe in Africa knew of the existence of the star "Sirius B" long before we just recently found it with the Hubble. Sirius B is not visible to the naked eye in the night sky.

[_username_]

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

[frankenbeemer]

23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their buttocks.

[shiboujin]

a group of owls is called a parliament. a group of crows is a murder.

[z31maniac]

Did you know % chance of precipitation in a weather forecast only means what percentage of the viewing area will receive rain?
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ffc/?n=pop

Actually I did know that one!

After being reduced to a mere 7 known plants back when It was put on the list in 1985, It has since come back to 163,000+ as of today. The Maguire Daisy was removed from the endangered species list in January of this year. Making it the 21st species to be removed from the endangered list.

Interesting, thanks for the contribution.

There are as many molecules in a tea spoon of water-

as there are tea spoons of water in the Atlantic Ocean.

This is kind of stuff I really like, crazy to try to envision that.

See my sig quote.

We already new that, hence NEW in the title. ;)

You can catch crabs without ever going to the beach.

Meh.

Electric and steam powered cars were available in the 1900's including the 1902 Woods Phaeton which had a range of 18 miles, top speed of 14 mph and was built in Chicago.


Steam powered cars such as the White Steam Car, took a long time to warm up and didn't do well in the cold.



Gasoline powered cars were loud, spewed pollution, and were dangerout/tedious to crank start. Electric cars were certainly the most user friendly but as the U.S. road network expanded the gasoline cars were favored over electrics. The invention of the electric starter by Cadillac in 1912 first implemented on the 30 HP "Model 30" put the nail in the coffin for the steam and electric cars.




Think of how advanced internal combustion engine technology has come in 100 years and imagine where battery technology would be if electric cars were the consumer's choice back then .

Good info.

"Canada" is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".

And all this time I thought it meant "America's Hat."

Buying a Mazda will never fill the void of owning a 24v e30.

Hehe, who owns a Mazda? Not this guy. ;)

Seemed like a good place to air out my pet peeve :-)
Although you have lots of motors (electric) in your car, you have only one engine (not electric) and that engine should not be referred to as a motor.

Not bad, but new, interesting trivia type stuff. Not overbearing clarifications of commonly used words.




Keep them coming fellas.

[_username_]

Seemed like a good place to air out my pet peeve :-)
Although you have lots of motors (electric) in your car, you have only one engine (not electric) and that engine should not be referred to as a motor.

[ZM Blue Devil]

Buying a Mazda will never fill the void of owning a 24v e30.

[frankenbeemer]

"Canada" is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".

[Sagaris]

Electric and steam powered cars were available in the 1900's including the 1902 Woods Phaeton which had a range of 18 miles, top speed of 14 mph and was built in Chicago.


Steam powered cars such as the White Steam Car, took a long time to warm up and didn't do well in the cold.



Gasoline powered cars were loud, spewed pollution, and were dangerout/tedious to crank start. Electric cars were certainly the most user friendly but as the U.S. road network expanded the gasoline cars were favored over electrics. The invention of the electric starter by Cadillac in 1912 first implemented on the 30 HP "Model 30" put the nail in the coffin for the steam and electric cars.




Think of how advanced internal combustion engine technology has come in 100 years and imagine where battery technology would be if electric cars were the consumer's choice back then .