Thread: Trivia and other useless but interesting items

The really important bits

"Want to hire a DVD on Friday night? There are 160 people in Australia who can help youIt's one of the quirkier stats the ABS has pulled out from the 2021 Census insights.
Across the country, there are 160 people employed in Video and 'Other Media Rental Hiring Services'.

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I think we could play a DVD in the kids game things?

IT Support up 30%- really I thought mine as gone to the birds at times


Careful with this stuff "Duncan: I'm a bit of a Census tragic — I don't get invited to barbecues anymore."

I see from the Census stats that truck drivers are now the 8th most numerous occupation in Australia. Must be the boom in home deliveries?

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

I see from the Census stats that truck drivers are now the 8th most numerous occupation in Australia. Must be the boom in home deliveries?

Midwives would be up there then!

Originally Posted by NavyDiver

I like my old racing bike. A few times over the last 20 year the crew at the bike shop just asked if I might prefer to get a new bike rather than fix my old one.

Ride Around the Bay was On Sunday Its a mere 210 km of butt cracks and many "Middle aged Men in Lycra" among the cool riders
This black duck wanted to ride over the Westgate bridge so entered despite not being a bike rider and no training on a bike at all.


Over the Westgate was fun- It was 6am in the morning. Along the emergency lane of the Geelong Freeway- Not a place for pedestrians or bike riders I felt Through Geelong and off to Queensclife to catch a Ferry was the plan. My BIKE BROKE. I had fixed two punchers and changed a tube before that, Not bad for a runner pretending to be a rider. Spokes broke on rear wheel and it would not go around 4km from Queenscliff.

Tipped the bike upside down and waited for the SAG bus which comes past after the last rider to pick up the broken and decrepit riders and bikes.

I waited for the breakdown Bus for 1 1/2 hours or a bit more at the 114km point 4 km from Queenscliff.

Trivia is:
shockingly I was a LOT faster than a LOT of other riders
Bike shop guy who was on the bus suggesting it would cost $300 and not worth fixing my wheel! Fixed it today for $9 all by myself
NOT buying a new bike. I like my old bike
SAG bus is a slow bus trip. I could have run back faster- Bugger the bike shoes

One of my Brothers does 130 to 160Km,regularly,usually every Sunday.
He lives in Darwin,so I suppose for his age,about 59 at a guess,not a bad effort,considering the heat and humidity up there.

He has some $20K road bike,it’s always in for adjustments,repairs,new tyres,brakes,or whatever.

My son does a lot of MTB riding,his latest bike has electric gears,they seem to work very well.

Originally Posted by Saitch

Midwives would be up there then!

Are midwives and their deliveries now handled by truck? Do you have a delivery slot and stay in in the hope they actually turn up as promised?

Skipper’s name-- Jonas Grumby
Gilligan's Name Willy Gilligan’s name confined to only “Gilligan,” Skipper’s real name was never ever said again


Now that is Triva

Lots more


"The ‘S.S. Minnow’ was used to annoy the chairman of the FCC

Fans believed that the name of the ship that brought us to Gilligan’s Island, the S.S. Minnow, was based on the name of a fish. But producer Sherwood Schwartz claimed that the name was inspired after Newton Minow, who sat at the time as the chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

Newton changed TV forever when he made his famous scathing speech against television shows. The phrase with which he described television—a “vast wasteland,” would forever be attached to his name and still shows up as the first suggested result when you Google his name. In 2011, Minow told Advertising Age having more choice of shows was the most significant improvement in TV in the decades since his famous speech, which makes it “less of a wasteland.”


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For even more try Link

David Tennant has made a surprise appearance in Jodie Whittaker's final Doctor Who story.I like recycling, David is a bit odd- now new Doctors is a bit of a Issue everywhere clearly

Millirems of Radiation (mrem)

5,000	Annual U.S. regulatory radiation limit for an adult
500	One transcontinental round trip flight
360	Average person’s annual exposure from all sources
20	Living one year outside a coal plant
2	Living one year outside a nuclear power plant

Source: U₃O₈ Corporation.

How much radiation do nuclear plant workers expose?



On average, nuclear power workers receive a lower annual radiation dose than flight crew, and frequent flyers in 250 hours would receive 1 mSv. The maximum annual dose allowed for radiation workers is 20 mSv/yr, though in practice, doses are usually kept well below this level.

Trivia For me lots of very needed X-rays and CT scans might beat a few of these!