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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Black Sabbath were discovered by Valerie Singleton

Top that!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Two young guys shared a flat together in London in the sixties hoping to make it famous. One became an Oscar winner the other discovered and managed the who!

I'll let you guess who they were!

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By *eased n pleasedCouple
over a year ago

wickford

Sirloin steak got its name because Henry VIII liked it so much he knighted it!

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By *isstinseltoesWoman
over a year ago

Calderdale innit

Leonardo di vinci was the first to explain why the sky is blue.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Reg Varney from on the buses was the first person to use an Atm machine.

Her

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Two young guys shared a flat together in London in the sixties hoping to make it famous. One became an Oscar winner the other discovered and managed the who!

I'll let you guess who they were!"

Hugh fearnly whittingstal was named after the Who. His mum ran their fan club

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Reg Varney from on the buses was the first person to use an Atm machine.

Her"

How do you know that one? ...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Reg Varney from on the buses was the first person to use an Atm machine.

Her

How do you know that one? ..."
I see it on the news a few years ago..i didnt know at the time..a case of learn something every day.

Her

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Two young guys shared a flat together in London in the sixties hoping to make it famous. One became an Oscar winner the other discovered and managed the who!

I'll let you guess who they were!

Hugh fearnly whittingstal was named after the Who. His mum ran their fan club "
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I might be wrong on this but I think Hugh was at school with David Cameron

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Your never alone with schytzophrenia, top trumps

Gimp

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

ACRONYM doesn't stand for anything

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By *omaMan
over a year ago

Glasgow

The sun is the most perfect natural sphere in the Milky Way. . . The difference between its Equatorial measurement is only 10 kilometers larger than its North/South measurement

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By *omaMan
over a year ago

Glasgow

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By *omaMan
over a year ago

Glasgow

The sun is the most perfect natural sphere in the Milky Way. . . The difference between its Equatorial measurement is only 10 kilometers larger than its North/South measurement

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Costa Rica, the country not a coffee shop, has run itself entirely on renewable energy for the past 70 days or so.

It can afford to invest in such methods as it has not had a military for the past 50 years or so.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Twelve people have been to the moon.

Hundreds have been into space

Thousands have been to the top of Everest.

Only two people have ever been to the bottom of the Mariana tench?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Twelve people have been to the moon.

Hundreds have been into space

Thousands have been to the top of Everest.

Only two people have ever been to the bottom of the Mariana tench?

Ah but, did those two get out and have a look around?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

DNA was first identified in the late 1860s by Swiss chemist Friedrich Miescher.

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By *ere-for-my-convenienceWoman
over a year ago

Tenbury Wells

Norwegians only pay half tax in November so that everyone has more money for Christmas

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"DNA was first identified in the late 1860s by Swiss chemist Friedrich Miescher."

DNA : The National Dyslexic Association.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

In 1995 Barnabas Chappell of Shropshire England, grew a pea 20cm in diameter, roughly the size of a 6 month old baby's head.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Norfolk pea expert and scientist Mike Ambrose has grown the biggest mangetout in the world - with pods more than twice the size of typical garden varieties.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Lachanophobia is the fear of peas.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I have had three shits today!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The greatest chance so far, according to astronomers, of a large asteroid colliding with the earth and wiping life out is in 2029. Asteroids have hit the planet before, and caused mass extinctions, so there is some precedent for it happening again.

The culprit this time is the Apophis Asteroid (99942 Apophis), which is headed our way in 2029. There’s a little less than a 3% chance that this bad boy will crash into terra firma. Let’s hope Apophis gives the planet a miss, otherwise you can stop paying into your retirement account right now!

Now I'm stuck all night On goggle looking at crap

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I have had three shits today! "

Three individual shits or one long one with tea breaks in between?

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By *educedWoman
over a year ago

Birmingham

"Lachanophobia is the fear of peas."

No more facts peas!

Peas out!

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"I have had three shits today!

Three individual shits or one long one with tea breaks in between?"

Not so sure we need to know

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By *inkxRabbitWoman
over a year ago

Mostly in GU24

Those things on the ends of shoe laces are called aglets.

The smell that precedes rain is petrichlor.

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By *eovilcouple76Couple
over a year ago

yeovil

Bill Paxton is the only actor to have been killed by a Terminator, a Predator and an Alien.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

The prongs on a fork are actually called tines

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Every two hours somewhere in the world there is a repeat broadcast of Homes Under The Hammer.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The prongs on a fork are actually called tines"

I learnt that one from Pretty Woman.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Every minute of every day, someone gets stabbed to death.

Must be like a bloody colander by now.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Reg Varney from on the buses was the first person to use an Atm machine.

Her

How do you know that one? ..."

She was behind him in the queue.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Every minute of every day, someone gets stabbed to death.

Must be like a bloody colander by now. "

Poor sod, he must be getting a bit tired of it now.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

There is a tree growing in Teddington, that grew from a cutting of the original tree that issac newton apparently sat under when he came up with his theory on gravity.

Additional fact I have sat and ate lunch next to said tree.

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By *eovilcouple76Couple
over a year ago

yeovil

If you could fold a piece of paper in half 42 times, you'd have a tower that would reach the moon, 103 times and it would be half as wife as the universe.

All about exponential growth.

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By *eovilcouple76Couple
over a year ago

yeovil

Wide not wife. Damn phone.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Guinness lose on average 16 million pints a year in mens moustaches

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Its impossible to lick your own elbow

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Salvador dali avoided many restaurant bills by scribbling a quick picture on the back of the cheque he used to pay the bill.

This always kept the restaurant owner from cashing the cheque and thus allowed dali to throw lavish parties for all his friends....

More Rothschild 55 garcon

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"If you could fold a piece of paper in half 42 times, you'd have a tower that would reach the moon, 103 times and it would be half as wife as the universe.

All about exponential growth. "

yet if the paper stayed as a tree it would rarely exceed 150 feet.

On which point, no one yet knows how tall Leylandii Cypressii (sp?) grow in this country as they haven't been here long enough ( barely some 130 years). Thereabouts.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Lachanophobia is the fear of peas."

Whats the scientific name for fear of a man who knows so much about peas?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Lachanophobia is the fear of peas.

Whats the scientific name for fear of a man who knows so much about peas?"

Nerd?

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"There is a tree growing in Teddington, that grew from a cutting of the original tree that issac newton apparently sat under when he came up with his theory on gravity.

Additional fact I have sat and ate lunch next to said tree. "
is it a pear tree?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Its impossible to lick your own elbow"

I tried this just

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By *B9 QueenWoman
over a year ago

Over the rainbow, under the bridge

Bananas are actually berries.

Strawberries are not.

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By *urvymamaWoman
over a year ago

Doncaster

"Its impossible to lick your own elbow"

False. Well at least in the case of my cousin, she is trained a contortionist though so not like us other mere mortals

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

That the ghost chilli is the hottest chilli in the world

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By *urvymamaWoman
over a year ago

Doncaster

"That the ghost chilli is the hottest chilli in the world "

They are frigging hot i suffered for days afterwards as the damn thing blistered/burnt my throat!

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By *owboy BebopMan
over a year ago

Glasgow

Was it Withnail & I ?

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By *imiUKMan
over a year ago

Hereford

"Lachanophobia is the fear of peas.

No more facts peas!

Peas out! "

Look, all we are saying is.....

Give peas a chance.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"That the ghost chilli is the hottest chilli in the world

They are frigging hot i suffered for days afterwards as the damn thing blistered/burnt my throat! "
YEs that's right it would burn like anything in the mouth, did you have yogurt after to dampen the heat?.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By *urvymamaWoman
over a year ago

Doncaster

"That the ghost chilli is the hottest chilli in the world

They are frigging hot i suffered for days afterwards as the damn thing blistered/burnt my throat! YEs that's right it would burn like anything in the mouth, did you have yogurt after to dampen the heat?."

Yes a full large pot of natural yoghurt and pint of milk didnt really help much. My brother found it friggin hilarious after telling me to try it as its "not that hot" the t**t!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Its impossible to lick your own elbow

I tried this just

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how many more have just tried it?own up

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"That the ghost chilli is the hottest chilli in the world

Yes a full large pot of natural yoghurt and pint of milk didnt really help much. My brother found it friggin hilarious after telling me to try it as its "not that hot" the t**t! "
lol ye I gues it would be a funnie joke but not a good one, did it last for long the burn?.

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By *urvymamaWoman
over a year ago

Doncaster

"That the ghost chilli is the hottest chilli in the world

Yes a full large pot of natural yoghurt and pint of milk didnt really help much. My brother found it friggin hilarious after telling me to try it as its "not that hot" the t**t! lol ye I gues it would be a funnie joke but not a good one, did it last for long the burn?."

God it felt like it was never gonna stop burning even ended up in a&e being treated for minor burns

Not pleasant. Never again!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Lachanophobia is the fear of peas.

Whats the scientific name for fear of a man who knows so much about peas?"

Peas come from the same genus as peanuts and liquorice.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Marilyn Monroe had 6 toes on her left foot.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Dragonfly's have been around on earth 325 Million years.

Mankind - homo spaiens 200,000 years.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Copious amounts of cinnamon makes you hallucinate

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"That the ghost chilli is the hottest chilli in the world

God it felt like it was never gonna stop burning even ended up in a&e being treated for minor burns

Not pleasant. Never again!!"
Yes not good and its not a nice feeling like its never gonna stop, at least the doctors could help to calm the burn down.

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By *igeiaWoman
over a year ago

Bristol

"Was it Withnail & I ?"

The 'I' in Withnail & I is actually called Marwood.

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By *_omageFraiseWoman
over a year ago

London

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By *_omageFraiseWoman
over a year ago

London

Every bag of uk crisps expires on a Saturday

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By *uttyjonnMan
over a year ago

SEA

The USA is an older country than Germany

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

63% of men and only 32% of women buy shoes that fit

(source ; jonnyblushoes mag) now that's astounding!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

If you had a minutes silence for every person who died in the Holocaust, you would not speak for 11 1/2 years.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

There are 169,518,829,100,544,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the first ten moves of any chess game.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

What a great thread! I read some of these out to my housemate earlier and he asked where I was getting them from.

My reply was 'a forum'!

I think my fave has to be the end of a shoelace one

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

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By *ibbyhunterCouple
over a year ago

keighley

ricky wilson sang in the church choir at eddie warings funeral.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"What a great thread! I read some of these out to my housemate earlier and he asked where I was getting them from.

My reply was 'a forum'!

I think my fave has to be the end of a shoelace one

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It's amazing what you can find out from phineas and ferb

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories a hour which is a fact specific to FAB!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"What a great thread! I read some of these out to my housemate earlier and he asked where I was getting them from.

My reply was 'a forum'!

I think my fave has to be the end of a shoelace one

It's amazing what you can find out from phineas and ferb

That's how I knew it too.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"If you had a minutes silence for every person who died in the Holocaust, you would not speak for 11 1/2 years."

A very sobering fact.

Very sad indeed.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Sex panther.

They've done studies you know.

60%of the time, it works every time!

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By *-4pleasureCouple
over a year ago

Belfast

"Bill Paxton is the only actor to have been killed by a Terminator, a Predator and an Alien. "

Loving that !!!!!!!!

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By *allipygousMan
over a year ago

Leicester

"If you could fold a piece of paper in half 42 times, you'd have a tower that would reach the moon, 103 times and it would be half as wife as the universe.

All about exponential growth. "

Ha. All about exponential bullshit.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"If you could fold a piece of paper in half 42 times, you'd have a tower that would reach the moon, 103 times and it would be half as wife as the universe.

All about exponential growth.

Ha. All about exponential bullshit."
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You'd need exponential bulls for that!.

You'd be better off trying for cowshit

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Its impossible to lick your own elbow"

Not entirely a fact... Someone with hypermobility in their joints are able to do this...

Also the carolina reaper took the title from the ghost coming in at 2.2M scoville units

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Its impossible to lick your own elbow

Not entirely a fact... Someone with hypermobility in their joints are able to do this...

Also the carolina reaper took the title from the ghost coming in at 2.2M scoville units

Good job with disproving the chilli non-fact

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Its impossible to lick your own elbow

Not entirely a fact... Someone with hypermobility in their joints are able to do this...

Also the carolina reaper took the title from the ghost coming in at 2.2M scoville units

Good job with disproving the chilli non-fact

Well this weekend we tried to buy a pie made using on of these and when we arrived the pie man refuses to sell it too us as it was too dangerous...!

Instead he agreed to sell us a junior version which was 30x less hot... Needless to say it was wise piece of advice!

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By *oconut2Woman
over a year ago

Nether regions of the back of beyond

"I have had three shits today! "

Pmsl

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

its is actually possible for a human being to have 2 sets of DNA 1 for blood and another for bodily secretions they are call chimeras (not sure on spelling) and it happens when 1 twin ingest the other while in the womb

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By *igeiaWoman
over a year ago

Bristol

"its is actually possible for a human being to have 2 sets of DNA 1 for blood and another for bodily secretions they are call chimeras (not sure on spelling) and it happens when 1 twin ingest the other while in the womb

I love the chimera fact. I used to tease my little brother that he was one and it was the reason his eyes are two different colours.

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By *allipygousMan
over a year ago

Leicester

Also if you've received an organ transplant. At least that's what I recall from Elementary, The Mentalist, or some such TV show.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

An elephant has only 2 legs the front limbs are arms with an elbow,they are in affect walking like a ape oh and the legs have keecaps

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By *igeiaWoman
over a year ago

Bristol

Also if you've received an organ transplant. At least that's what I recall from Elementary, The Mentalist, or some such TV show."

And a bone marrow transplant. Is bone marrow an organ?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Blue plasters are used in the catering in industry because there is no natural blue food colouring so makes it easy to see them if they fall in the soup!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Tomato is a fruit but you wouldn't put it in a fruit salad

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By *alandNitaCouple
over a year ago

Scunthorpe

And a bone marrow transplant. Is bone marrow an organ?"

Not an organ, but is responsible for making Red Blood Cells..

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By *alandNitaCouple
over a year ago

Scunthorpe

"Tomato is a fruit but you wouldn't put it in a fruit salad

So is pepper, chilli, egg plant, marrow, pumpkin and loads more.

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By *riskynriskyCouple
over a year ago

Essex.

"An elephant has only 2 legs the front limbs are arms with an elbow,they are in affect walking like a ape oh and the legs have keecaps

Elephants can't jump...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"An elephant has only 2 legs the front limbs are arms with an elbow,they are in affect walking like a ape oh and the legs have keecaps

That's true of all mammals... humerus radius ulna and elbows at the front, femur tibia fibia and knee caps at the back.

All mammals have fundamentally the same bones, lengths have evolved to vary but they are the same bones.

The myth that elephants have four knees is false though.

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By *ere-for-my-convenienceWoman
over a year ago

Tenbury Wells

Costa coffee spend more on insurance than on coffee beans

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By *ere-for-my-convenienceWoman
over a year ago

Tenbury Wells

"Costa coffee spend more on insurance than on coffee beans "

Starbucks even

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By *bony in IvoryCouple
over a year ago

Black&White Utopia

You can't buy cashew nuts with shells on...the shell of each nut we see has been individually taken off by hand... Saw this recently on a documentry ... Never realized that before!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

On this day in 1979 super gramps breakfast in America was released

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By *hortieWoman
over a year ago

Northampton

"Sirloin steak got its name because Henry VIII liked it so much he knighted it!

It was apparently King James I .. but I prefer the thought it comes from the french 'sur logne' (might have spelt that wrong lol) - meaning above the loin

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By *hortieWoman
over a year ago

Northampton

The bend in a flamingos leg is actually an ankle, not a knee. And it bends backwards.

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By *ikkixxWoman
over a year ago

northampton

Hugo Boss designed uniforms for the nazis

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Those things on the ends of shoe laces are called aglets.

The smell that precedes rain is petrichlor. "

Everybody know the ends of laces are called flugel binders, didn't you see cocktail

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By *ust_for_laughsCouple
over a year ago

Hinckley

"Two young guys shared a flat together in London in the sixties hoping to make it famous. One became an Oscar winner the other discovered and managed the who!

I'll let you guess who they were!"

That was Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp (who didn't become an actor, his brother Terence did).

They both managed The Who.

Related trivia...

Terence Stamp and Julie Christie are the 'Terry and Julie' in Waterloo Sunset by The Kinks.

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By *ernowCplCouple
over a year ago

Redruth

My favourite thread!!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Twelve people have been to the moon.

Hundreds have been into space

Thousands have been to the top of Everest.

Only two people have ever been to the bottom of the Mariana tench?

I thought it was 4 people. One of which was James Cameron the film director.

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By *ath_Neil_bifunCouple
over a year ago

near cardiff

"Its impossible to lick your own elbow"

I can lick both my elbows.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Your never alone with schytzophrenia, top trumps

Gimp"

my friend agrees with you but he says I'm not schytzophenic, he says that others are the ones who need glasses.

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By *ath_Neil_bifunCouple
over a year ago

near cardiff

Pig dicks are twisted like corkscrews.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"If you could fold a piece of paper in half 42 times, you'd have a tower that would reach the moon, 103 times and it would be half as wife as the universe.

All about exponential growth. "

You can fold a piece of paper in half only six times.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Hugo Boss designed uniforms for the nazis"

I only recently discovered this.

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By *eovilcouple76Couple
over a year ago

yeovil

"If you could fold a piece of paper in half 42 times, you'd have a tower that would reach the moon, 103 times and it would be half as wife as the universe.

All about exponential growth.

You can fold a piece of paper in half only six times."

It's in theory. And actually, the record for paper being folded in half stands currently at 13 times.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Lachanophobia is the fear of peas.

Whats the scientific name for fear of a man who knows so much about peas?"

A lachanophile?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

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By *rank EinsteinMan
over a year ago

Burton upon stather

You can die from sleep depravation.

If you hold in a fart the gas travels up to your brain and that's where shitty ideas come from.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

That's true of all mammals... humerus radius ulna and elbows at the front, femur tibia fibia and knee caps at the back.

All mammals have fundamentally the same bones, lengths have evolved to vary but they are the same bones."

Even whales and dolphins?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Dion Dublin is the newest presenter to join Homes Under The Hammer.

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By *ho am IWoman
over a year ago

Mids

The vibrator was originally designed in the 19thcentury by medics to combat the anxiety-related symptoms of “hysteria” (now known as menstruation)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The world record for stuffing marshmallows up one single nostril (604)is held by Toxteth O'Grady (USA)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Dion Dublin scored a 1993 'classic' hatrick of right foot shot left foot shot and a headed penalty playing for Man Utd reserves, (a young David Beckham made his debut in the same game).

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Dion Dublin is distantly related ( fourth cousin twice removed..on his mums side) to 19th century industrial magnate William Armstrong.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'm very very bored.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Hugo Boss designed uniforms for the nazis"
including the gestapo leather coat!

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By *tep121Man
over a year ago

manchester

"Blue plasters are used in the catering in industry because there is no natural blue food colouring so makes it easy to see them if they fall in the soup!"

They are also 100% useless at staying attached to your skin within at least 2 minutes of attaching it.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Two young guys shared a flat together in London in the sixties hoping to make it famous. One became an Oscar winner the other discovered and managed the who!

I'll let you guess who they were!

That was Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp (who didn't become an actor, his brother Terence did).

They both managed The Who.

Related trivia...

Terence Stamp and Julie Christie are the 'Terry and Julie' in Waterloo Sunset by The Kinks."
waterloo sunset is about Ray and Dave Davies younger brother terry who used to have a girlfriend from South london

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By *empting Devil.Woman
over a year ago

Sheffield

Consuming the equivalent of an entire nutmeg is potentially fatal. It can cause a heart attack.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The oldest condoms ever found date back to the 1640's (were found in a cesspit in Dudley castle) and were made of fish and animal intestines. Ugh!

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By *ust_for_laughsCouple
over a year ago

Hinckley

"Two young guys shared a flat together in London in the sixties hoping to make it famous. One became an Oscar winner the other discovered and managed the who!

I'll let you guess who they were!

That was Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp (who didn't become an actor, his brother Terence did).

They both managed The Who.

Related trivia...

Terence Stamp and Julie Christie are the 'Terry and Julie' in Waterloo Sunset by The Kinks.waterloo sunset is about Ray and Dave Davies younger brother terry who used to have a girlfriend from South london "

Aye, but Ray Davies is a curmudgeonly twat who will probably change his mind again in five minutes time

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

technical definition of a giant is those over 6ft 6, therefore i am a giant (just).

Note: Definition varies dependent on country, however as i qualify, I'm claiming it,

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Two young guys shared a flat together in London in the sixties hoping to make it famous. One became an Oscar winner the other discovered and managed the who!

I'll let you guess who they were!

That was Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp (who didn't become an actor, his brother Terence did).

They both managed The Who.

Related trivia...

Aye, but Ray Davies is a curmudgeonly twat who will probably change his mind again in five minutes time

All adds to the mystique

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"If you could fold a piece of paper in half 42 times, you'd have a tower that would reach the moon, 103 times and it would be half as wife as the universe.

All about exponential growth.

You can fold a piece of paper in half only six times.

It's in theory. And actually, the record for paper being folded in half stands currently at 13 times.

Well I worked in the paper industry for twenty years and I know that's all bollocks.

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By *ythenshawefredMan
over a year ago

stockport

"What a great thread! I read some of these out to my housemate earlier and he asked where I was getting them from.

My reply was 'a forum'!

I think my fave has to be the end of a shoelace one

It's amazing what you can find out from phineas and ferb

That's how I knew it too.

Same here

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"That the ghost chilli is the hottest chilli in the world "

Correction.

The trinidad moruga scorpion is the hottest in the world reaching upto 50 million scoville. However it is illegal to sell and distribute in most eurpoean countries due to its potential damage due to severe heat.

The 'ghost' chilli (naga or jolokia chilli) is the hottest availablr for sale in the UK. Reaching about 5 million scoville, it beats the scotch bonnet by 3 million scoville and can be grown in certain climates in Dorset

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By *eovilcouple76Couple
over a year ago

yeovil

"If you could fold a piece of paper in half 42 times, you'd have a tower that would reach the moon, 103 times and it would be half as wife as the universe.

All about exponential growth.

You can fold a piece of paper in half only six times.

It's in theory. And actually, the record for paper being folded in half stands currently at 13 times.

Well I worked in the paper industry for twenty years and I know that's all bollocks.

Simple Internet search will show you that it's you that is talking bollocks.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Two young guys shared a flat together in London in the sixties hoping to make it famous. One became an Oscar winner the other discovered and managed the who!

I'll let you guess who they were!

That was Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp (who didn't become an actor, his brother Terence did).

They both managed The Who.

Related trivia...

Terence Stamp and Julie Christie are the 'Terry and Julie' in Waterloo Sunset by The Kinks."
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That's right I read Micheal Caines autobiography when he shared a flat with Terrance stamp before they were famous, he points out that terrys brother was a jobbing actor who was useless and never going to make it but one night came back to their flat and announced he was going to be a rock manager as he'd just seen this great band in the pub!!.

On a another side note Caine and stamp got hammered in a pub with a jobbing artist who lived in the flat above them.... David Hockney

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By *allipygousMan
over a year ago

Leicester

"If you could fold a piece of paper in half 42 times, you'd have a tower that would reach the moon, 103 times and it would be half as wife as the universe.

All about exponential growth.

You can fold a piece of paper in half only six times.

It's in theory. And actually, the record for paper being folded in half stands currently at 13 times.

Well I worked in the paper industry for twenty years and I know that's all bollocks.

Simple Internet search will show you that it's you that is talking bollocks. "

Sometimes it's best to stop and have a proper think about something you've read on the internet before regurgitating it as fact

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Take a piece of a4. Cut a 1" strip lengthways. Fold it about 1/4" down. Repeat till you reach the end. It won't add up to a hill of beans!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The limit a piece of paper can be folded in half is only really limited by its original size.

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By *octor DeleriumMan
over a year ago

Wellingborough

The smallest bone in the human body is the stapes; it's one of three connected bones in the middle ear cavity.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Take a piece of a4. Cut a 1" strip lengthways. Fold it about 1/4" down. Repeat till you reach the end. It won't add up to a hill of beans!"
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I remember reading about exponential growth years ago and there was a story about a chess board and a mathematician who had asked to be paid in wheat grain doubling the grain on each square starting with 1 grain then 2 and 4 anyway the outcome is you end up with 400 times more grain than the world produced last year on the last square!

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By *ere-for-my-convenienceWoman
over a year ago

Tenbury Wells

I'm still in the pub

Oh no

That's normal not astounding

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Take a piece of a4. Cut a 1" strip lengthways. Fold it about 1/4" down. Repeat till you reach the end. It won't add up to a hill of beans!.

Yes that's true. But it doesn't apply here, as all you are doing is adding the thickness of paper. A4 copier paper is about 75 microns in thickness. Double that, 150 mic, 300mic, 600mic, 1200 mic....its still very very small.

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By *octor DeleriumMan
over a year ago

Wellingborough

"The limit a piece of paper can be folded in half is only really limited by its original size."

It's more about the thickness as every time you fold the thickness doubles, the folded edge is curved and is more difficult to fold and the effect of wrinkles and creases becomes significant.

The maximum folds achieved is 13 using 12 km of industrial toilet tissue. They ended with a 1.5 metre wide and 76 cm high stack with 8192 layers.

Mathmatically, to fold anything in half, it must be Pi times longer than its thickness, and that, depending on how something is folded, the amount its length decreases with each fold differs.

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By *octor DeleriumMan
over a year ago

Wellingborough

1.2 km of industrial toilet tissue.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Just worked out the size of folding in half 75mic 42 times. It is effing big!!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Just worked out the size of folding in half 75mic 42 times. It is effing big!!!

8246372083km!!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The limit a piece of paper can be folded in half is only really limited by its original size.

It's more about the thickness as every time you fold the thickness doubles, the folded edge is curved and is more difficult to fold and the effect of wrinkles and creases becomes significant.

The maximum folds achieved is 13 using 12 km of industrial toilet tissue. They ended with a 1.5 metre wide and 76 cm high stack with 8192 layers.

Mathmatically, to fold anything in half, it must be Pi times longer than its thickness, and that, depending on how something is folded, the amount its length decreases with each fold differs."

That's why it comes on a roll!!!

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By *eovilcouple76Couple
over a year ago

yeovil

"Just worked out the size of folding in half 75mic 42 times. It is effing big!!!

8246372083km!!!"

Hmmmm. Maybe now people will believe my fact as being a fact.

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By *rallvalCouple
over a year ago

Dunfermline

If all the women on Fab were laid end to end I would not be the least bit surprised.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Gymnophobia is the fear of the naked body

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"If all the women on Fab were laid end to end I would not be the least bit surprised."

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

That's true of all mammals... humerus radius ulna and elbows at the front, femur tibia fibia and knee caps at the back.

All mammals have fundamentally the same bones, lengths have evolved to vary but they are the same bones.

Even whales and dolphins?"

Sort of. For the upper limbs its exactly the same, the radius and ulna are in the flippers. For the lower limbs its less clear cut, the pelvis has detached from the spine and to lower limb bones may be gone or in some cases detached.

The point was really making was that elephants are not unusual in their bone structure. You can follow simple principles to work out the skeleton of mammals, birds, probably reptiles too.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I know your mum.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Leonardo di vinci was the first to explain why the sky is blue."

And, his only name is Leonardo, da Vinci means he's from vinci in Italy lol he was never born with a last name!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Its impossible to lick your own elbow

Not entirely a fact... Someone with hypermobility in their joints are able to do this...

Also the carolina reaper took the title from the ghost coming in at 2.2M scoville units

You can buy chilli sauces that top 16 million scovilles

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

the men of your village r still required by the kings law to practice their archery skills on the village green once a week (think it on sundays) and the 2 fingers V as in fook off was the british archers way of telling the french fook off i still have my bow fingers so i can shoot you

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

the most expensive coffee in the world has actually been eaten n passed through the digestive tract of a wild cat (cant remember its name) urggggggggggggg

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"the most expensive coffee in the world has actually been eaten n passed through the digestive tract of a wild cat (cant remember its name) urggggggggggggg

Civet Cat.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The vagina is lined by the same covering as the inside of the mouth. One of the reasons why it needs to be kept moist.

The clitoris has 8,000 nerve endings... Double that of a Penis

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

the 2 most miss quoted films ever are Casablanca and the Italian job as "play it again sam" was not in it n harry's last statement wasnt "i have a great idea/plan" as is often said (cant remember proper 1 but wasnt that)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It's an isostatic paradox that the more the Himalayas erode and wear down, the higher they get....

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By *eovilcouple76Couple
over a year ago

yeovil

"the most expensive coffee in the world has actually been eaten n passed through the digestive tract of a wild cat (cant remember its name) urggggggggggggg

Kopi Luwak coffee. About £50 for 250grams. And it does taste like shit.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

was mariana trench pleased to get them out of her bottom

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Two young guys shared a flat together in London in the sixties hoping to make it famous. One became an Oscar winner the other discovered and managed the who!

I'll let you guess who they were!

That was Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp (who didn't become an actor, his brother Terence did).

They both managed The Who.

Related trivia...

Terence Stamp and Julie Christie are the 'Terry and Julie' in Waterloo Sunset by The Kinks."

Also The Who's previous manager, Peter Meaden, once shared a flat with Mick Jagger, apparently...

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By *icky999Man
over a year ago

warrington

"the 2 most miss quoted films ever are Casablanca and the Italian job as "play it again sam" was not in it n harry's last statement wasnt "i have a great idea/plan" as is often said (cant remember proper 1 but wasnt that)

It was I've got a great idea actually.

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By *icky999Man
over a year ago

warrington

"the most expensive coffee in the world has actually been eaten n passed through the digestive tract of a wild cat (cant remember its name) urggggggggggggg

im assuming kfc do the same with a dog

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Black Sabbath were discovered by Valerie Singleton

Top that!"

Your mum can take 6 inches

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By *ev-PMan
over a year ago

Hampshire

If it wasn't for electricity we'd all be watching tv by candlelight.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"If it wasn't for electricity we'd all be watching tv by candlelight."

we wouldn't be able to watch tv either remember? coz electricity wouldn't exist

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By *ev-PMan
over a year ago

Hampshire

"If it wasn't for electricity we'd all be watching tv by candlelight.

we wouldn't be able to watch tv either remember? coz electricity wouldn't exist"

that's the point

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"If it wasn't for electricity we'd all be watching tv by candlelight.

we wouldn't be able to watch tv either remember? coz electricity wouldn't exist

that's the point

we'd all end up playing board games lol

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By *uietlyBohemianCouple
over a year ago

Newcastle-under-Lyme

Blockbusters presenter Bob Holness played the saxophone riff on Gerry Rafferty's 1978 song "Baker Street".

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Blockbusters presenter Bob Holness played the saxophone riff on Gerry Rafferty's 1978 song "Baker Street"."

No he never

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Blockbusters presenter Bob Holness played the saxophone riff on Gerry Rafferty's 1978 song "Baker Street"."

It was actually Raphael Ravenscroft.

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