Odd factoids
- Thread starter Blue Hills
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Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Alice really did fall down a rabbit hole
classic33
Leg End Member
An adult's would be closer to 100,000 miles long.
ClichéGuevara
Legendary Member
- Location
- Kingston upon the River Hull
gaijintendo
Veteran
- Location
- Scotchland
She was pushed?
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Indeed, prehistoric women rock
ClichéGuevara
Legendary Member
- Location
- Kingston upon the River Hull
The first jigsaw puzzle was created by Leonardo Da Vinci in a fit of rage at being unhappy with one of his paintings.
ClichéGuevara
Legendary Member
- Location
- Kingston upon the River Hull
A cinema manager in Seoul, Korea felt that The Sound of Music was too long, so he shortened it by cutting out all the songs.
ClichéGuevara
Legendary Member
- Location
- Kingston upon the River Hull
In seventeenth-century Japan, no citizen was allowed to leave the country. Anyone caught trying to leave without permission was exiled for life.
NorthernDave
Never used Über Member
- Location
- The real Northern Powerhouse
The ownership of the brand name "Murray Mints" has been subject to a long running dispute between popular ex-commentator Murray Walker and pushy tennis mum Judy Murray.
ClichéGuevara
Legendary Member
- Location
- Kingston upon the River Hull
The cha cha is the national dance of Switzerland, and is celebrated in their ISO country code, internet url and the country code for their cars.
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Celebrity mechanic Edd China can not understand a single word uttered by the porky pseudo a cockerney Mike Brewer. In one candid interview he admitted that he did not know if it was some kind of East End patois, or whether Brewer was having a stroke.
ClichéGuevara
Legendary Member
- Location
- Kingston upon the River Hull
In Breton, Alabama, it's against the law to ride down the street in a motorboat.
ClichéGuevara
Legendary Member
- Location
- Kingston upon the River Hull
In 1969 the US Navy spent $375,000 on an "aerodynamic analysis of the self-suspended flare." The study's conclusion was that the Frisbee was not feasible as military hardware.
