Interesting facts

[NickDRFC]

Charlie Chaplin once came third in a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest.

Cleopatra lived closer in time to the invention of the internet than the building of the pyramids.

[drfchound]

If you sat in your car and turned the ignition on, and if you could drive straight up into the sky at 60mph, it would only take an hour to reach outer space.

[Filo]

If you sat in your car and turned the ignition on, and if you could drive straight up into the sky at 60mph, it would only take an hour to reach outer space.

1hour 2min to be precise 🤪

[Glyn_Wigley]

Robert LeGendre broke the world record for the long jump at the 1924 Olympic Games and held it till it was broken the following year - but he never won an Olympic gold medal.

[BillyStubbsTears]

Robert LeGendre broke the world record for the long jump at the 1924 Olympic Games and held it till it was broken the following year - but he never won an Olympic gold medal.

On a similar note, for a few minutes in 1991, the championship record for the long jump at the World Athletics Championship was longer than the World Record.

[River Don]

When Danes use the word "skol" meaning cheers, they are actually referring back to ancient times when Vikings used to drink their booze out of human skulls.

[BillyStubbsTears]

"Siling down" derives from the old Norse word "sila" meaning "a sieve".

[tommy toes]

Predictable, but someone had to do it....

https://youtu.be/Gn08cA5zNAI

[IDM]

If the world was the size of an orange, it would be too small..

(Neil, the Young Ones, circa 1984)

[BillyStubbsTears]

If an atom was expanded to the size of a par 5 golf hole, the nucleus which has nearly all the mass would be the size of the hole itself.

[NickDRFC]

If an atom was expanded to the size of a par 5 golf hole, the nucleus which has nearly all the mass would be the size of the hole itself.

Golf course?

[wilts rover]

Robert LeGendre broke the world record for the long jump at the 1924 Olympic Games and held it till it was broken the following year - but he never won an Olympic gold medal.

On a similar note, for a few minutes in 1991, the championship record for the long jump at the World Athletics Championship was longer than the World Record.

Ireland won one medal at the 1948 London Games, Letitia Hamilton with a bronze medal in the art competition for a painting of the Meath Hunt Point to Point Races. The current location of the painting is unknown.

[River Don]

Corduroy was invented in Manchester during the industrial revolution. In many parts of Europe it was known as Manchester cloth. In Sweden it still is.

[Bentley Bullet]

Corduroy pillows were a very popular idea. They're still making headlines to this day.

[River Don]

A peanut isn't a nut. It's a pea.

A member of the legume family.

[bahrain rover]

Everyone knows bananas as fruits, but actually they are a berry.
Bananas grow in hands, and each individual one is a finger. 
And there are over 1000 varieties
My source for this is we farm them back home in Mindanao.

[Bentley Bullet]

Baked beans aren't actually baked, they are stewed.

[Bentley Bullet]

8 out of 10 Rotherham fans are just as thick as the other 2.

[SydneyRover]

''If you removed all the empty space from the atoms that make up all the humans on the planet, then you could fit all 6 billion of us inside a single apple. This astonishing discovery that atoms are mainly empty was made in 1909 at Manchester University by the indefatigable Ernest Rutherford''

[Bentley Bullet]

Cor

[River Don]

Cleopatra lived closer in time to the invention of the internet than the building of the pyramids.

And while they were building the pyramids in Egypt, there were still herds of Woolly Mammoth roaming Wrangel island in the Arctic.

[Draytonian III]

Correction fluid or liquid paper was invented by a secretary in 1951 called Bette Nesmith Graham was the mother of Michael Nesmith from The Monkees ( the one in the woolly hat )

[phil old leake]

Bananas from the uk
https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/uk-england-35131751

[River Don]

The release of the Sex Pistols - God Save The Queen is closer in time to the 2nd World War than it is to the present day.

[Nudga]

Mice couldn't travel to space, until last week.

[bahrain rover]

Interesting Phil O,
We grow Lakatan banana, and Senorita. If you tried these especially the small Senorita, you would realize the Cavendish the worlds most exported, is actually quite bland in flavor.

[Dutch Uncle]

Sir, I think my art riddles can describe demagogue Don's bidding tyranny

is an anagram of

Democracy isn't dying in darkness, it's being murdered in broad daylight

(allowing for an extra apostrophe)

[wilts rover]

Jeremy Clarkson owes his fame to Paddington Bear

The first stuffed toy Paddington replicas were made by Clarkson's parents for him and his sister. They then started selling these (unlicensed) toys in shops around the country. Which proved so popular they were able to use the profits to send Clarkson to public school. Thus leading this tv giant onto the career he has today...

[Juddy]

Once went to the Gabriel Designs factory with Jeremy near to the old red house roundabout on the A1 Woodlands Paddington bears piled up to the ceiling

[Bentley Bullet]

In a pub quiz tie-breaker a few years back, I was asked: "Where did Paddington Bear come from?" I answered, "Doncaster". The answer was Peru, but I still maintain that I was right!