gph 12:07 Mon Nov 27
Useless knowledge you've recently acquired
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Carbonados, or black diamonds, are the only found in Brazil and the Central African Rebublic.
Unlike other diamonds, they contain no minerals characteristic of the Earth's mantle, where it is believed those other diamonds formed. Their origin is disputed, with an extraterrestrial location being as likely as anywhere.
Result of a "WTF are they?" in a crossword a couple minutes ago, and a subsequent Wiki perusal.
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Darlo Debs
5:38 Mon Nov 27
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That Prince Harry is engaged.
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the coming of gary
5:27 Mon Nov 27
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seven per cent of all the people who have ever lived are still alive
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BRANDED
5:17 Mon Nov 27
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When you need a shit and have no access to a toilet most people have at least one great anecdote about the experience.
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chim chim cha boo
5:11 Mon Nov 27
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The Guillotine was used in France as their way of carrying out the death sentence until 1977. It was only banned in France (when they stopped the death penalty) in 1981.
Ironically, the last person to be legally beheaded in the western world was a Muslim- Hamida Djandoubi who tortured and murdered a French girl.
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The_Phantom
4:51 Mon Nov 27
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when Ollie Lee scored for Luton recently from 65/70 yards, where he shot from and where the ball landed in the net were in different postcodes.
Also, dogs are too stupid to know that they're made of bones otherwise they'd chew themselves to death
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MancIron
4:35 Mon Nov 27
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Barry Manilow didn't write I write the songs.
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Swiss.
4:32 Mon Nov 27
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Actaully that wasn't useless knowledge.
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Swiss.
4:25 Mon Nov 27
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In French as you know you don't pronouce the H. Eg Les Hommes. And as such you pronounce the 's' so phonetically 'Lez om. '
Biut for foreign words like Halles or Haricourt you do. hence the 's' is silent.
Les Halles phonetically is 'Lay Halles'
And we have it in Englkish. An hour. No H pronounced
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Mike Oxsaw
4:23 Mon Nov 27
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TLAs are NIO.
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OHL
4:13 Mon Nov 27
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to assume makes an ''ass'' out of ''u'' and ''me''
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zebthecat
4:10 Mon Nov 27
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Octopuses have nine brains. One for each arm and one in their head to coordinate. It is a distributed system and each arm is capable of making decisions as to what to explore independently.
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BRANDED
4:00 Mon Nov 27
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How to use Izotope's Ozone.
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Mike Oxsaw
3:30 Mon Nov 27
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Questions are not raised to be answered.
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Grumpster
3:29 Mon Nov 27
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How about we just start with the Muslim's then gph and Nursey is more than welcome to re-fill it once they're in there?
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gph
3:17 Mon Nov 27
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I don't think they'd agree to go, Grumpster.
And if they did, Nurse would put the water back.
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ted fenton
11:49 Mon Nov 27
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The engagement of Harry & Meghan.
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Grumpster
11:45 Mon Nov 27
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If you were to take all of the water out of Loch Ness, you could fit the worlds population x 10 into it.
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Hammer and Pickle
11:36 Mon Nov 27
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There is a level of probability at which all the atoms in a wall can arrange themselves perfectly with the atoms in you so you pass through the wall like it wasn’t even there.
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madeeasy
11:31 Mon Nov 27
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Stalling speed of a Spitfire is 74 mph
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Geoffrey Pike
11:22 Mon Nov 27
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When my dad was a kid (in the 1940s) he lived in North Woolwich and he used to tell me it was actually part of Kent. I used to think this was his usual nonsense, but actually was historically part of the Manor of Woolwich, and the north side belonged to Woolwich/Kent to control the ferry charges. It then became part of London County Council while East and West Ham remained County Boroughs of Essex. North Woolwich was officially separate from the surrounding East and West Ham boroughs until Newham was formed in 1965.
So the old man was right
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11:18 Mon Nov 27
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Elton John and Kiki Dee had a hit, back in the seventies, called “Don’t go breaking my heart” and they have never sung it live together. Elton and Kiki recorded their separate parts and it was stitched together by their record company and released. Subsequently the pair met up at a BBC studio and mimed to a playback so that this video could be played on TotP.
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