Odd factoids

[Tim Hall]

Radio 1 DJ Annie Nightingale is the daughter of the pioneering nurse, Florence Nightingale.

Pioneering nurse Florence Nightingale invented the pie. Or the pie chart, I forget which.

 

[david k]

Water expands as it gets warmer but also when it gets colder, it's one of them phenomena thingys

 

[bruce1530]

The first shop in bakery chain “Greggs” was opened in Gosforth, Newcastle, in 1951. The chain was owned by movie star Gregory Peck, who had a penchant for pies and savoury snacks.

This is also the origin of the phrase “feeling a bit Peckish”

 

[classic33]

Florence Nightingale was a polyglot. She fluently spoke English, German, French, and Italian, and she also had an understanding of both classical Greek and Latin. At an early age, her father, who was a Cambridge graduate, supervised her education and sparked her early interest in language.

 

[Racing roadkill]

In 1949 an official boxing match was held between a bear and a man, the man lost.

 

[Racing roadkill]

The postcode for Delta, in Canada is
V4G 1N4

 

[Dirk]

Marie Curie is the only person ever to win two Nobel prizes for different sciences.

 

[Drago]

Florence Nightingale was a polyglot.

She was indeed, on account of she had 11 sides.

 

[david k]

NASA wished to fake the moon landings but this was so complex and costly they found it cheaper and easier to actually go to the moon

True fact that

 

[david k]

NASA wished to fake the moon landings but this was so complex and costly they found it cheaper and easier to actually go to the moon

True fact that

Going to the moon caused them to design the non stick pan, I believe it was one of buzz aldrins pet hates to get those sticky bits after a fry up at the bottom of a pan, hence creating the non stick pan

Or was it Neil Armstrong?

 

[Tim Hall]

"Knock knock."

"Who's there?"

"Don't screw around, Buzz. Who the hell do you think it is?"

"Sorry Neil."

 

[classic33]

NASA wished to fake the moon landings but this was so complex and costly they found it cheaper and easier to actually go to the moon

True fact that

Stanley Kubrick managed it, eight years before though!

 

[classic33]

Going to the moon caused them to design the non stick pan, I believe it was one of buzz aldrins pet hates to get those sticky bits after a fry up at the bottom of a pan, hence creating the non stick pan

Or was it Neil Armstrong?

Related to Stretch?

 

[jefmcg]

Marie Curie is the only person ever to win two Nobel prizes for different sciences.

That's very specific, I don't think Linus Pauling's achievement should be ignored just because his second prize wasn't in a science

 

[Dirk]

That's very specific....

Exactly.