Thread: Useless facts/knowledge

Originally Posted by edhewitt

Yeah i read that on a can of gold that i was forced to drink at karratha airport once, so gold should really be XXX

No, it should be XX. It's unleaded and only half the strength of regular Super . Now that's showing my age, but to get with the modern times anything weaker than Gold could be referred to as Ethanol blend I suppose.


Mick

1 Radian in a 360 deg circle is 57.29578 degrees. Throw a couple of pi on it and see what ya get. 360 / 2pi = 1 Radian. This is actually a useful fact.

obviously not a SRP sort of gent...

"During Abraham Lincoln's campaign for the presidency, a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat named Valentine Tapley from Pike County, Missouri, swore that he would never shave again if Abe were elected. Tapley kept his word and his chin whiskers went unshorn from November 1860 until he died in 1910, attaining a length of twelve feet six inches."

Who does NOT use the metric system....

These Are the Three Countries Who Don't Use the Metric System

Makes me wonder sometimes.

Well here is a short explanation

Romania kinda touches the Black sea. Smooth Sailing.

Originally Posted by HaiKarate

1 Radian in a 360 deg circle is 57.29578 degrees. Throw a couple of pi on it and see what ya get. 360 / 2pi = 1 Radian. This is actually a useful fact.

We weren't allowed to throw Pi in school.
~Richard

Pi throwing was encouraged in california.

Originally Posted by HaiKarate

1 Radian in a 360 deg circle is 57.29578 degrees. Throw a couple of pi on it and see what ya get. 360 / 2pi = 1 Radian.[ This is actually a useful fact.

For what?

For nothing. I guess it was off topic. I'll post Stonehenge there.