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Interesting trivia thread
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Lego and Terrys Chocolate Orange were both launched in 1932.
Not true, Lego was launched in 1934 before then the founder made wooden toys
Wrong.
Anyway, Why not post some interesting facts instead of getting the wet blanket out?
Hilary Fisher Page's Interlocking Building Cubes of 1939
Lego bricks
Two Lego Duplo bricks with a standard brick for comparison
The Lego Group began in the workshop of Ole Kirk Christiansen (1891–1958), a carpenter from Billund, Denmark, who began making wooden toys in 1932.[6][7] In 1934, his company came to be called "Lego", derived from the Danish phrase leg godt[lɑjˀ ˈkʌt],[8][9] which means "play well".[10] In 1947, Lego expanded to begin producing plastic toys.[11] In 1949 Lego began producing, among other new products, an early version of the now familiar interlocking bricks, calling them "Automatic Binding Bricks". These bricks were based on the Kiddicraft Self-Locking Bricks, which had been
Interesting fact, Beaker posts incorrect information & declares it as fact.
If you get six Lego bricks with eight dimples on them there are over 900 million ways of connecting them to each other.
derek kelly will now spend the rest of today trying to disprove this.
derek kelly will now spend the rest of today trying to disprove this.
Volvo used to make the jet engines for SAABs fighter jets.
The engine in my focus is the same as used in some volvo's but its not a jet
No idea if ford or volvo produced the engine
I look forward to lots of interesting trivia posts from you going forward……
Hilary Fisher Page's Interlocking Building Cubes of 1939
Lego bricks
Two Lego Duplo bricks with a standard brick for comparison
The Lego Group began in the workshop of Ole Kirk Christiansen (1891–1958), a carpenter from Billund, Denmark, who began making wooden toys in 1932.[6][7] In 1934, his company came to be called "Lego", derived from the Danish phrase leg godt[lɑjˀ ˈkʌt],[8][9] which means "play well".[10] In 1947, Lego expanded to begin producing plastic toys.[11] In 1949 Lego began producing, among other new products, an early version of the now familiar interlocking bricks, calling them "Automatic Binding Bricks". These bricks were based on the Kiddicraft Self-Locking Bricks, which had been
Interesting fact, Beaker posts incorrect information & declares it as fact.
I believe the 5 cylinder ST is a Volvo engine that Ford use, and you can get silly hp out of them
BMW Gina is made out of Spandex (kept that one quiet beaker)
The five cylinder I had in my Swedish barge was an absolute gem.
Mine is a 4 cylinder 1.8 and pretty pokey if I want it to be, my mate has an st220 mondeo and that thing flew in stock spec but now he has had some work done its bloody mental (still prefer his transit though that's a proper laugh)
My present four wheeled perambulation machine is a Volvo, complete with a pretty nifty five cylinder engine with a bit of a turbo attached
Vincent van Goch, possibly the most well known artist of all time, only sold one painting during his lifetime…and that was to his brother.
The UK actually did have a submersible aircraft carrier!
HMS M2.
HMS M2.
The first-ever film was recorded in Leeds
Louis Le Prince was a French artist and the inventor of the early motion picture camera.Le Prince moved to Leeds from Metz in France in the mid-19th century and in October 1888, he filmed moving-picture sequences on Leeds Bridge and also of his son playing the accordion using his single-lens camera.
During the Allied invasion of Italy in March 1944 The US Air Force had to relocate from the South of Italy to offshore islands (mainly Sardinia) as a result of ash from an eruption of Mount Vesuvius putting many airfields on the mainland out of action.