Did you know........? A thread full of useless facts

[CHAPPERS]

during the 2nd world war , Adolf Hitler ordered the luffwaffe not to bomb the royal Pavillion in brighton, as he was going to use it as his British HQ when he invaded.

Now that is interesting.

Greenland is, in fact, white.

 

[zefarelly]

tit-fingers ratio match here, although I nearly broke my wrist in the process

 

[Seagullible]

Greenland is, in fact, white.

Iceland is in fact green. When dicovered Greenland was in its short summer and Iceland was in Winter

 

[Safeway]

The black box flight recorders on aeroplanes are, in fact, orange.

 

[Mr Popkins]

Big Mo slater in Eastenders is Gary Oldman's, The film stars, Sister.


Hard to believe but-
FACT.

 

[Mr Popkins]

The black box flight recorders on aeroplanes are, in fact, orange.

if Black Boxes are so safe then why dont they make the plane out of the same stuff!

 

[WATFORD zero]

Brian Connelly (lead singer of glam rock sweet) is the brother of whateverisnameis McManus who played Taggart

 

[Sonic]

Facetious is the only word in the English language to have all 5 vowels in the correct order.

Apart from 'Abstemious' and probably a couple more.

 

[Mr Popkins]

chapagne can only truely be called champagne if it comes from the champagne region of France,
anything else is Sparking wine

 

[Mr Popkins]

The Union Jack can only be called so when it is flown from the mast of a ship, if flown on land then it is refered to as the Union Flag

 

[Mr Popkins]

people from Malta are called-
" Malteesers!"

 

[Mr Popkins]

Horses are not native to the America,s .they were introduced by the Spanish settlers and traded with the red Indians.

 

[zefarelly]

the Numbers used by ferrari to name there cars are the capacity of one cylinder in the car its designated to

ie a 250 GTO had 250cc cylinders, 2 banks of 6 makes a 3L V12

 

[Icy Gull]

Brian Connelly (lead singer of glam rock sweet) is the brother of whateverisnameis McManus who played Taggart

Brian Connelly WAS the brother, he is now dead as well

 

[Mr Popkins]

Bristol time used to be 15 min behind the time in london due to it being further west, but this caused havoc with the introduction of the railways and timetables , so was harmonised.

 

[Mr Popkins]

Australians do not know what they are talking about when they call us whinging Pohms.

Pohm actually stands for Prisioner Of Her Majesty...

which in history relates to them!!

 

[MRRF 10]

Vision of Atlantis

earlier this century, edgar cayce, an american psychic claimed he had visited atlantis in a dream. According to cayce, the people of atlantis were far more advanced than any other civilization of the time, and apparently they even had televisions and x-rays.

 

[MRRF 10]

deadly fall

during the first world war, the sound of gunfire set off avalanches which killed between 40,000 and 80,000 soldiers in the tyrolean alps- more than were killed by bullets or disease.

 

[MRRF 10]

scrabbling around

scrabble was invented in 1931 by Alfred Butts, an unemployed american architect. He called it criss cross but he couldnt get anyone to buy the idea at first because the games manufacterers thought it was too boring. Butts and his partner made the first sets by hand in a garage and the game eventually went on sale in 1946. Scrabble has now sold over 100 million sets worldwide.

 

[AlbionFan]

The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it .