 |
By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
|
Okay so. Let's start this off just right. Did you know that before the railway was developed. Towns in England had different time zones! So Manchester could be 3pm and Leeds could be 5pm.
It wasn't until the railway system was up and running all towns and cities in the UK then went to GMT time because the railway couldn't be organised on all these different time zones.
Boom. Useless fact of the day from me there  |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By *uciyassMan
over a year ago
sheffield |
Did you know that Otto Rohwedder of Davenport, Iowa, invented the world's first bread-slicing machine. Several companies began to use it to create prepackaged sliced bread, which was advertised as “the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped." ... And, of course, people loved sliced bread.
So when you say it’s the best thing since sliced bread you should actually say it’s the best thing since the sliced bread slicer |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
|
The man who invented the steadicam is from Philadelphia and had a meeting set up in L.A. He had been filming friends and family walking from room to room and down corridors but wanted something with a little more oomph. So he filmed his girlfriend running up the steps outside the Philadelphia Art Gallery. He went to his meeting and sold his invention on the first day. A producer saw this footage and 3 months later he was back in Philly filming Sylvester Stallone running up the very same steps for Rocky |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
|
"London has been called as we all know London our, but did you also know it has also been called....
ludenwic
And
Ludenberg
The Romans called it Londinium"
And now it's called londonistan  |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
Margaret Thatcher was actually for the railways staying in state hands.
She said the privatisation of the railway would be a privatisation too far.
Wise words lest we for forget to times the government had to bail the railways outs before the days of Nationalisation and of course the reasons why they were Nationalised in the first place. Funny how history repeats its self. |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
"Okay so. Let's start this off just right. Did you know that before the railway was developed. Towns in England had different time zones! So Manchester could be 3pm and Leeds could be 5pm.
It wasn't until the railway system was up and running all towns and cities in the UK then went to GMT time because the railway couldn't be organised on all these different time zones.
Boom. Useless fact of the day from me there "
Source please. Leeds is only 40 miles from Manchester I seriously doubt there was ever a 2 hour difference. 5 minutes maybe. |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
|
"Margaret Thatcher was actually for the railways staying in state hands.
She said the privatisation of the railway would be a privatisation too far.
Wise words lest we for forget to times the government had to bail the railways outs before the days of Nationalisation and of course the reasons why they were Nationalised in the first place. Funny how history repeats its self."
She was also a cunt. |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
"Margaret Thatcher was actually for the railways staying in state hands.
She said the privatisation of the railway would be a privatisation too far.
Wise words lest we for forget to times the government had to bail the railways outs before the days of Nationalisation and of course the reasons why they were Nationalised in the first place. Funny how history repeats its self.
She was also a cunt. "
Agree. That's what makes this fact so surprising. |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
"Okay so. Let's start this off just right. Did you know that before the railway was developed. Towns in England had different time zones! So Manchester could be 3pm and Leeds could be 5pm.
It wasn't until the railway system was up and running all towns and cities in the UK then went to GMT time because the railway couldn't be organised on all these different time zones.
Boom. Useless fact of the day from me there
Source please. Leeds is only 40 miles from Manchester I seriously doubt there was ever a 2 hour difference. 5 minutes maybe."
You're right, before 1844, Leeds was 6 minutes behind London time (or GMT) and Bristol was 20 minutes behind - Manchester and Liverpool train stations aligned their clocks in 1846
|
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
|
If you took out all of the space between the atoms of every living human, the solid matter left of all 7 billion people would fit into the size of a standard cube of sugar.
|
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
|
"Okay so. Let's start this off just right. Did you know that before the railway was developed. Towns in England had different time zones! So Manchester could be 3pm and Leeds could be 5pm.
It wasn't until the railway system was up and running all towns and cities in the UK then went to GMT time because the railway couldn't be organised on all these different time zones.
Boom. Useless fact of the day from me there "
Unless and wrong, partially anyway, there was a "time difference" of about 15 minutes across the UK. Believe there a town hall clock in Bristol which shows London and local time on its face.  |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
» Add a new message to this topic
