I love random facts

[Kovu]

Make canny sarnies do you?

Nah man, I just eat yorkshire Puddings and walk around with my flat cap.

 

[Mortiroloboy]

Although it was called "The Flying Scotsman", it couldn't really fly. And it wasn't a Scotsman.

And in the same train of thought...Although it was called the mallard, it wasn't a duck.

 

[TheDoctor]

The direction that the room spins when you are drunk varies according to which hemisphere you are in.
On the Equator the room seems to spin end-over-end, resulting in frantic carpet grippage.

(may not actually be true)

 

[Fnaar]

Eddie the Eagle was (stiil is?) studying law at Leicester Uni

So it's all been downhill since his winter olympic appearances, has it? (downhill... eddie the eagle... oh gawd, where's me coat )

 

[Maz]

Doesn't Scrabble use Chambers or something though?

The deluxe version does - for holding the tiles in place.
They're more like raised grids, though, not chambers.

 

[twowheelsgood]

Though nearly always by small minded bigots who are bitterly jealous at having no identity themselves.

Neither could I

One fact about Liverpool though. From the height of the swinging 60s and the Merseybeat, the population has halved as of 2007.

Quite scary really, especially considering the relative revival of Manchester.

 

[Arch]

81% of statistics used in arguments are made up on the spot.

And the other 27% are wrongly calculated...

I still can't remember the fact I was going to post, dammit. Can't have been that good I guess.

Here's one though. If you feed a cat nothing but liver, the excess Vitamin A causes all its joints to grow extra bone and it fuses into a solid lump of a cat.

 

[red_tom]

The Mighty Boosh is the name Michael Fielding (Naboo) gave to Noel Fielding's hair when they were growing up.

 

[gavintc]

Apart from the human that is...

Yes, Zimbabwe came to mind when I read about killer hippos.

 

[rikki]

Left handed people can't roll their tongues, or wink with both eyes.

I can't roll my tongue of wink with my left eye.

Maybe I'm left handed!

This could explain why I'm so uncoordinated.

 

[PaulB]

One fact about Liverpool though. From the height of the swinging 60s and the Merseybeat, the population has halved as of 2007.

Quite scary really, especially considering the relative revival of Manchester.

So scary you had to move to Zurich, the world's most boring town?

 

[cisamcgu]

One fact about Liverpool though. From the height of the swinging 60s and the Merseybeat, the population has halved as of 2007.

Quite scary really, especially considering the relative revival of Manchester.

Don't think so

No, I really don't think so

In fact Manchester and Liverpool show almost exactly the same population trends over the past 100 years

 

[Mr Phoebus]

Kenny Everett did the voice of Charley the Cat (my avatar) in the PIFs.