Aug 2016
11:59pm, 22 Aug 2016
12,082 posts
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Dvorak
Top goat-related fact :-). He's lucky he wasn't put in the glasshouse for that.
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Aug 2016
9:18am, 23 Aug 2016
21,269 posts
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GlennR
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Aug 2016
8:29pm, 25 Aug 2016
25,080 posts
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Night-owl
4 out of 5 tsunamis occur in the pacific
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Aug 2016
9:47pm, 25 Aug 2016
3,592 posts
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minardi
NO - I had to read that twice - first time, I couldn't understand what satsumas were doing in the ocean (perhaps I need to visit the senior moments thread!)
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Aug 2016
9:49pm, 25 Aug 2016
12,092 posts
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Dvorak
LOL Minardi
I'm surprised that as many as 1 in 5 *don't* occur in the Pacific.
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Aug 2016
10:18am, 26 Aug 2016
21,376 posts
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GlennR
From reading about the Italian earthquake I have discovered that an earthquake in Sicily in 1693 created a tsunami 15 metres high.
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Aug 2016
10:34am, 26 Aug 2016
3,930 posts
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Markymarkmark
(I'm always surprised that Southern Europe is tectonically active. Should be, thinking about it logically, but you kind of expect old and long settled places to be more stable. So much of the Algarve coast still looks pretty raw and that was from quake about 200 years back.)
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Aug 2016
9:11pm, 26 Aug 2016
25,085 posts
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Night-owl
LOL Minardi
All data received via that rather lovely Iain Stewart off BBC4
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Sep 2016
3:44pm, 2 Sep 2016
13,698 posts
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ChrisHB
That the brand "Matsui" is not a reputable Japanese manufacturer despite the rising-sun logo, but an own-label invention of Dixons for products without a single Japanese component.
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Sep 2016
5:29pm, 2 Sep 2016
21,530 posts
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GlennR
[Bloody hell Chris, you were a bit slow with that one]
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