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

Okay so. Let's start this off just right. Did you know that before the railway was developed. Towns in England had different time zones! So Manchester could be 3pm and Leeds could be 5pm.

It wasn't until the railway system was up and running all towns and cities in the UK then went to GMT time because the railway couldn't be organised on all these different time zones.

Boom. Useless fact of the day from me there

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

I found out recently a road in Shrewsbury had a underground heating system installed, in the sixties. It's knackered now.

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By *uciyassMan
over a year ago

sheffield

Did you know that Otto Rohwedder of Davenport, Iowa, invented the world's first bread-slicing machine. Several companies began to use it to create prepackaged sliced bread, which was advertised as “the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped." ... And, of course, people loved sliced bread.

So when you say it’s the best thing since sliced bread you should actually say it’s the best thing since the sliced bread slicer

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

The man who invented the steadicam is from Philadelphia and had a meeting set up in L.A. He had been filming friends and family walking from room to room and down corridors but wanted something with a little more oomph. So he filmed his girlfriend running up the steps outside the Philadelphia Art Gallery. He went to his meeting and sold his invention on the first day. A producer saw this footage and 3 months later he was back in Philly filming Sylvester Stallone running up the very same steps for Rocky

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

London has been called as we all know London our, but did you also know it has also been called....

ludenwic

And

Ludenberg

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

In medieval times, animals could be bought to Court and sentenced even to death

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By *olgateMan
over a year ago

on the road to nowhere in particular


"London has been called as we all know London our, but did you also know it has also been called....

ludenwic

And

Ludenberg

"

The Romans called it Londinium

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

The opposite of a girl is a boy.

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By *lenderfoxMan
over a year ago

Leeds

Kazakhstan is currently introducing a new alphabet, they're facing a backlash because many words have too many apostrophes

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


"The opposite of a girl is a boy."

Mind blown

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


"London has been called as we all know London our, but did you also know it has also been called....

ludenwic

And

Ludenberg

The Romans called it Londinium"

And now it's called londonistan

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By *rontier PsychiatristMan
over a year ago

Coventry

Margaret Thatcher was actually for the railways staying in state hands.

She said the privatisation of the railway would be a privatisation too far.

Wise words lest we for forget to times the government had to bail the railways outs before the days of Nationalisation and of course the reasons why they were Nationalised in the first place. Funny how history repeats its self.

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By *agermeisterMan
over a year ago

Leeds


"Okay so. Let's start this off just right. Did you know that before the railway was developed. Towns in England had different time zones! So Manchester could be 3pm and Leeds could be 5pm.

It wasn't until the railway system was up and running all towns and cities in the UK then went to GMT time because the railway couldn't be organised on all these different time zones.

Boom. Useless fact of the day from me there "

Source please. Leeds is only 40 miles from Manchester I seriously doubt there was ever a 2 hour difference. 5 minutes maybe.

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


"Margaret Thatcher was actually for the railways staying in state hands.

She said the privatisation of the railway would be a privatisation too far.

Wise words lest we for forget to times the government had to bail the railways outs before the days of Nationalisation and of course the reasons why they were Nationalised in the first place. Funny how history repeats its self."

She was also a cunt.

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By *arksMan
over a year ago

in the centre

When a male penguin falls in love with a female penguin, he searches the entire beach to find the perfect pebble to present to her

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By *rontier PsychiatristMan
over a year ago

Coventry


"Margaret Thatcher was actually for the railways staying in state hands.

She said the privatisation of the railway would be a privatisation too far.

Wise words lest we for forget to times the government had to bail the railways outs before the days of Nationalisation and of course the reasons why they were Nationalised in the first place. Funny how history repeats its self.

She was also a cunt. "

Agree. That's what makes this fact so surprising.

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


"Okay so. Let's start this off just right. Did you know that before the railway was developed. Towns in England had different time zones! So Manchester could be 3pm and Leeds could be 5pm.

It wasn't until the railway system was up and running all towns and cities in the UK then went to GMT time because the railway couldn't be organised on all these different time zones.

Boom. Useless fact of the day from me there

Source please. Leeds is only 40 miles from Manchester I seriously doubt there was ever a 2 hour difference. 5 minutes maybe."

You're right, before 1844, Leeds was 6 minutes behind London time (or GMT) and Bristol was 20 minutes behind - Manchester and Liverpool train stations aligned their clocks in 1846

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

If you took out all of the space between the atoms of every living human, the solid matter left of all 7 billion people would fit into the size of a standard cube of sugar.

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By *appy squirrelWoman
over a year ago

Norwich

took me about 3.72min to read this thread. fact. and useless. does it qualify?

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By *egWorshipperMan
over a year ago

Gods Country

There were 2 Marthas in Martha and the Muffins

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


"Okay so. Let's start this off just right. Did you know that before the railway was developed. Towns in England had different time zones! So Manchester could be 3pm and Leeds could be 5pm.

It wasn't until the railway system was up and running all towns and cities in the UK then went to GMT time because the railway couldn't be organised on all these different time zones.

Boom. Useless fact of the day from me there "

Unless and wrong, partially anyway, there was a "time difference" of about 15 minutes across the UK. Believe there a town hall clock in Bristol which shows London and local time on its face.

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