|
Post by AdderleyGreenStokie on Feb 6, 2020 14:12:57 GMT
Canada is south of Detroit.
|
|
|
Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2020 8:38:54 GMT
The Duke of William pub in Burslem was the first in Britain to install women's toilets....
|
|
|
Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2020 8:55:52 GMT
Japanese folk are bat shit mental for KFC at Christmas. I’ve heard a Japaneseman say that too.
|
|
|
Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2020 9:01:18 GMT
Canada is south of Detroit. Never realised that. Just done some googling and it seems Detroit is right on the border, separated from Canada by the Detroit river. On the opposite side is the Canadian city of Windsor, so those two cities essentially form a singular conurbation despite being in different countries. It’s would be like Merseyside if the Wirral was welsh or Liverpool was Scottish.
|
|
|
Post by Northy on Feb 7, 2020 9:07:21 GMT
Canada is south of Detroit. And a few other American Cities, Milwaukee, Portland, Seattle etc.
|
|
|
Post by wagsastokie on Feb 7, 2020 9:17:31 GMT
|
|
|
Post by AdderleyGreenStokie on Feb 7, 2020 13:36:08 GMT
Canada is south of Detroit. And a few other American Cities, Milwaukee, Portland, Seattle etc. This is true...I should have said if you travel directly south from Detroit, you will enter Canada.
|
|
|
Post by Goonie on Feb 7, 2020 23:39:50 GMT
|
|
|
Post by Vadiation_Ribe on Feb 7, 2020 23:50:08 GMT
Music streaming has a higher carbon footprint than CD and vinyl at its peak.
|
|
|
Post by madnellie on Feb 8, 2020 1:16:12 GMT
Canada is south of Detroit. Toronto is south of the UK too.
|
|
|
Post by Dutchpeter on Feb 24, 2020 19:27:45 GMT
Gary Lineker is a distant relation of Mott the Hoople bassist Peter Overend Watts.
|
|
|
Post by zerps on Feb 24, 2020 20:48:12 GMT
Dogs can’t look up 🐕
|
|
|
Post by DunnetHeadMoonraker on Feb 24, 2020 21:36:56 GMT
As someone who can see the Orkney Islands from where I live I am aware that there are people on the Orkneys who have the surname Twatt. Surely the villages of Twatt and Wyre Piddle should be twinned.
|
|
|
Post by lawrieleslie on Feb 25, 2020 8:24:02 GMT
|
|
|
Post by Goonie on Feb 25, 2020 15:22:07 GMT
As someone who can see the Orkney Islands from where I live I am aware that there are people on the Orkneys who have the surname Twatt. Surely the villages of Twatt and Wyre Piddle should be twinned. A colleague of mine 'claimed' to know a girl named Crystal Shander who married a bloke named Lear and hyphenated her surname! She also claimed to have an ancestor called Fanny Crack!
|
|
|
Post by Northy on Feb 25, 2020 16:31:25 GMT
Margaret Thatcher invented Mr Whippy ice cream..... which was modelled on Douglas Hurds hairstyle
|
|
|
Post by Northy on Feb 25, 2020 16:36:23 GMT
As someone who can see the Orkney Islands from where I live I am aware that there are people on the Orkneys who have the surname Twatt. Surely the villages of Twatt and Wyre Piddle should be twinned. A colleague of mine 'claimed' to know a girl named Crystal Shander who married a bloke named Lear and hyphenated her surname! She also claimed to have an ancestor called Fanny Crack! there's more than one about www.geni.com/people/Crystal-Lear/6000000020438713563
|
|
|
Post by Paul Spencer on Feb 25, 2020 18:58:48 GMT
Edinburgh is further west than both Liverpool and Bristol.
|
|
|
Post by Goonie on Feb 25, 2020 19:50:52 GMT
A colleague of mine 'claimed' to know a girl named Crystal Shander who married a bloke named Lear and hyphenated her surname! She also claimed to have an ancestor called Fanny Crack! there's more than one about www.geni.com/people/Crystal-Lear/6000000020438713563Blimey! She wasn't bullshitting me then 😲
|
|
|
Post by pearo on Feb 25, 2020 23:09:11 GMT
Chinese lanterns are made in India
|
|
|
Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2020 23:29:20 GMT
There are more Lego mini figures than there are people on Earth.
|
|
|
Post by RedandWhite90 on Feb 25, 2020 23:52:19 GMT
Margaret Thatcher invented Mr Whippy ice cream..... This is like one of those fishing stories where the fish gets bigger every year that passes
|
|
|
Post by Northy on Feb 26, 2020 8:46:29 GMT
Edinburgh is further west than both Liverpool and Bristol. remember seeing that on a quiz show on the TV a while back
|
|
|
Post by thequietman on Feb 26, 2020 12:25:07 GMT
I know zillions of unexciting facts about tenpin bowling but here's a doozy:
James Blackstone is the only bowler in history to have rolled a 299.5 game (300 is the maximum).
BTW I only opened this thread because I read the title as "Exciting F4rts".
|
|
|
Post by AdderleyGreenStokie on Feb 26, 2020 12:57:30 GMT
Edinburgh is further west than both Liverpool and Bristol. This is the kind of thing my brain just won't believe. Even after proving it on a map. (Like Norwich being further North than Birmingham)
|
|
|
Post by DunnetHeadMoonraker on Feb 26, 2020 14:31:59 GMT
Thanks to today's Society for Radiological Protection newsletter for this.
Charles Darwin was a member of the Glutton Club, a group of students that sampled birds and beasts unknown to the human palate. Puma, rodents, iguana, armadillos...basically any new species discovered had to pass the taste test.
|
|
|
Post by mickmillslovechild on Feb 26, 2020 14:37:15 GMT
There are more Lego mini figures than there are people on Earth.
And Lego are the largest tyre manufacturer in the world, making more than 700 million of them last year.
|
|
|
Post by bathstoke on Feb 26, 2020 15:57:28 GMT
Fanta was invented in Nazi Germany as a result of the embargo's placed on it, meaning they couldn’t get the ingredients for cola
|
|
|
Post by PotterLog on Feb 26, 2020 16:37:21 GMT
Canada is south of Detroit. Toronto is south of the UK too. Edinburgh is further west than both Liverpool and Bristol. This is the kind of thing my brain just won't believe. Even after proving it on a map. (Like Norwich being further North than Birmingham) I love shit like this. I just checked and Toronto is actually further south than parts of the Mediterranean, including Monaco and Genoa.
|
|
|
Post by skiptanbroonacari on Feb 27, 2020 18:46:12 GMT
More than 200 million copies of IKEA's catalogue are printed every year.
|
|