You Learn Something New Every Day

January 5, 2009 • 1:00 am 0

Day 24

George W. Bush’s ‘W.’ stands for ‘Walker’.

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January 1, 2009 • 1:00 am 0

Day 20

Thailand didn’t accept the 1st of January as the start of the new year until 1941.

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December 31, 2008 • 2:08 am 0

Day 19

The Greenwich Time Signal (also known as BBC Radio’s ‘the pips’) play five 0.1 second 1kHz tones for each of the five seconds before the end of the hour followed by a 0.5 second tone played at the start of the next hour. At midnight an additional ‘leap second’ is introduced leading to a total of seven ‘pips’ just once a day.

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December 30, 2008 • 1:00 am 0

Day 18

Big Ben is the name not of the clock tower itself but of the bell which chimes within the structure.

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