Odd factoids

[classic33]

December 28th is widely regarded as the unluckiest day of the year, so don't do anything and certainly don't start anything on this day!

 

[Racing roadkill]

Whilst filming the movie ‘Titanic’, the director James Cameron spent more time on the wreck of the Titanic, than the passengers on the Titanic, spent on the Titanic.

 

[Racing roadkill]

Pope Francis, once worked as a doorman / bouncer at an Argentinian night club.

 

[Racing roadkill]

Since 1950, James Bond has killed 150 men, and slept with 44 women, three quarters of whom have tried to kill him.

 

[Racing roadkill]

If you’re ever in a Disney theme park, and you see the Toy Story characters, if you yell “Andy’s coming” they have to stop what they are doing, drop to the floor, and lay still.

 

[Drago]

No it wasn't. The Stockton & Darlington Railway was opened in 27 September 1825 and carried passengers on the first date. Regular passenger services started in October 1825.

This thread is no place for accurate facts!!!

 

[Drago]

James Cameron is the Father of Tory porcine lover, David Cameron.

 

[Racing roadkill]

A bit of a 'vague' claim. Cameron claims to have spent more time 'with the ship' than the passengers but he's never actually been on it (it's at about 3,700m down - or 371 ATM - way beyond what any diver could survive). He has dived in a submersible to the ship on a number of occasions but you could only claim he'd spent more time 'at the wreck' than the passengers spent on board if you included the time taken to dive to the wreck and surface again. The actual time spent at the wreck was much less.

 

[Racing roadkill]

A couple of Macaque monkeys, in Japan, learned to snatch purses and wallets, remove coins, and use the coins to buy snacks from vending machines.

 

[Racing roadkill]

There is a town in Alaska which had a cat, for a mayor, for 15 years.

 

[Racing roadkill]

A man named Guy de Maupassant, used to eat his lunch, under the base of the Eiffel Tower, because he hated it, and that was the only place in Paris from where it can’t be seen.

 

[Racing roadkill]

A giraffe’s tongue is 21 inches long, they can clean their ears with it.

 

[Dirk]

Most female Giraffes are lesbians.

 

[ClichéGuevara]

It has been calculated that it would have been more cost effective to drain the Atlantic than it was to raise the Titanic.

 

[Drago]

The Titanic was made from Winston Churchill's bogies - google it!