The "My word, that's an interesting fact!" thread

[Alex]

Maybe he meant Phil Hill.

[Lukeno94]

I highly doubt it was Phil Hill either, since he won two races in his championship season...

[DuklaLiberec]

And that Keke Rosberg had his first career victory there in 1982, and that victory was his only one in that season, and he won the F1 Championship on that same season with only that victory?

Yeah, and 11(!) drivers won not less than one GP within this season. Five drivers (Pironi, Prost, Lauda, Watson, Arnoux) won twice.

[Alex]

- Statistically, the most successful F1 Team ever is Brawn GP. It won the WDC and WCC in 100% of the seasons the team participated in, won 47% of all the races it entered, had never finished lower than 10th, and Jenson Button used only 1 chassis the entire season.

[Doorslammer]

...and Jenson Button used only 1 chassis the entire season.

Now that's a very interesting statistic. Virtually unheard of anymore.

[bduddy]

- Statistically, the most successful F1 Team ever is Brawn GP. It won the WDC and WCC in 100% of the seasons the team participated in, won 47% of all the races it entered, had never finished lower than 10th, and Jenson Button used only 1 chassis the entire season.

Pretty sure it was actually Rubens that used the same chassis for the whole season. For about the first half of the season, they only had 2 complete chassis!

EDIT: misspelling >_>
Also, I was wrong... it was Button.

[Joey Zyla]

- Statistically, the most successful F1 Team ever is Brawn GP. It won the WDC and WCC in 100% of the seasons the team participated in, won 47% of all the races it entered, had never finished lower than 10th, and Jenson Button used only 1 chassis the entire season.

Pretty sure it was actually Ruebens that used the same chassis for the whole season. For about the first half of the season, they only had 2 complete chassis!

No, it wasn't this 'Ruebens' that you speak of. It was Jenson Button.

[DuklaLiberec]

Did you know that 90% of the Finnish inhabitants have got blue eyes? I think the Finnish guys in our forum have got them, too.

Yeah, majority of the native Finns do have blue (or grey, whatever) eyes, but 90 % ?? Personally wouldn't believe that.
I have quite dark brown (while being a native Finn myself)

Don't forget that 99% of the people in Estonia are having blue eyes.

[The MNZ]

It isn't sure that we needt to drink 2l of water per day.
Wall of China cannot be seen from space.

[DuklaLiberec]

I took this nickname as a joke actually, because as you've figured out, it's damage reversed, but read as e-gamad can also mean something like internet vermin. Other than that, I've been also called egg mad at RSC and even had a mad egg as avatar for a while.

The mad egg IS currently your avatar.

Did you know that Jirko Malchárek, former test driver of Minardi, was the Minister of Economy of Slovakia & the deputy prime minister of Slovakia, too?

[Alex]

There are 3 racing drivers with extremely similar names - Mark Martin, Marc Martí and Markko Märtin.
[*] They all drove for Ford in their respective sport, and all 3 drove for the team at the same time in 2002
[*] All 3 were active in racing at the same time from 2000 - 2005
[*] They all had teammates that eventually won (or already won) the drivers' championship for their respective sport (Kyle Busch Matt Kenseth, Carlos Sainz and Colin Mcrae, respectively)

[Alex]

Interesting fact that I found out today:

From 1998 - 2000 Prost Grand Prix were sponsored by Playstation. The next season they were sponsored by a company named PSN. Recognise the abbreviation? Well that PSN that we all know about didn't exist until 2006, and the PSN you see on the 2001 Prost is actually an Argentinian sports TV channel.

[puttz]

There are 3 racing drivers with extremely similar names - Mark Martin, Marc Martí and Markko Märtin.
[*] They all drove for Ford in their respective sport, and all 3 drove for the team at the same time in 2002
[*] All 3 were active in racing at the same time from 2000 - 2005
[*] They all had teammates that eventually won (or already won) the drivers' championship for their respective sport (Kyle Busch, Carlos Sainz and Colin Mcrae, respectively)

Ahem. Correction, the driver that won the championship as Mark Martin's teammate was Matt Kenseth. Kyle Busch has not won a driver's championship in NASCAR's highest division.

[DuklaLiberec]

-a Suzuki Superbike was pictured on the poster of the Turkish motorcycle Grand Prix. The Dorna was obviously not pleased.
-the first country, which registered no births, was the Vatican in 1983.
-in Oregon, two villages are named Sister and Brother.
-Taiwanese aborigines lived long before the Han Chinese immigration and are Austronesian people. Nowadays, they make up 2% of Taiwan's population.

[kec]

some facts:
the average speed of a fart is 11.2 Km/h
average person spends 3 years of his life on a toilet
average person swallows 8 spiders per year
bill paxton is the only actor who was killed by terminator,alien and predator
the temperature of hell is 725 °C
in windows folders can´t be named aux,prn and nul

[Crazyboy335]

Bumpity bumpity bump.

Arby's is pronounced like "RB's", due to the fact that they sell "Roast Beef".