Really TRUE odd factoids

[PeteXXX]

Most people know that Juliette was only 13 years old when she met Romeo.
But did you know the whole story takes place over a period of 4-5 days.
They meet, fall in love, marry, lose their virginity, murder someone and then both die in less than a week.
That’s quite a roller coaster ride for a 13 year old girl.

I'm still in love with Olivia Hussey and that was when she was Juliette 51 years ago

 

[Legs]

On a Similar theme. If you drew a timeline from the creation of the pyramids to the I phone, Cleopatra would be closer to the IPhone.

Madonna recorded Holiday closer to the end of WWII than to the present day…

 

[Chris S]

Madonna recorded Holiday closer to the end of WWII than to the present day…

Only just though.

 

[Chris S]

Cannabis was brought to Jamaica by Indian indentured labourers in the 19th century. The word 'ganja' is of Hindu origin and roughly translates as 'spiritual'.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Wild rodents will run on mouse wheels if you leave them in the woods.

 

[Blue Hills]

One for @Andy in Germany maybe.

When the new deutsch mark, birth of the economic miracle, was launched in 1948, supplies, printed in the US, were shipped into germany in 12,000 crates labelled "doorknobs"

 

[Blue Hills]

From the same source, sobering, after the bombing of Dresden, several (6?) special train lines were set up to shift the rubble.

The last rubble train ran in 1958 but the last rubble clearance team wasn't disbanded until 1997.

(couldn't have been that long after at all when I first went to Dresden - bomb damage still visible)

 

[Blue Hills]

It appears from my in-depth research that this may have got a certain amount of coverage when Dame Vera recently passed, but I only became aware of it very recently through god knows where, maybe a book I read.

>>>Lemmy with Hawkwind gigged with Dame Vera Lynn at the Crystal Palace Bowl in south London in 1986 - it was a anti heroin thing organised by Pete Townsend.

Pic of Dave Brock of Hawkwind and Silver Machine fame with Dame Vera at the event.

(there's also one somewhere of Dame Vera, surely a trouper, on stage at the finale)

Any old excuse to play this masterpiece -

(Note - not Dame Vera in the clip and she keeps her clothes on here as well)


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdTFeW8FCto



(two things I love about that vid - the great bit at around 2:32 where the guitars and drums drive back in and the ever so polite sign-off after all the mayhem)

(additional bonus factoid - Silver Machine was supposedly written about a bicycle - though admittedly the writer was apparently sectioned very soon after this insight)

 

[Beebo]

Bart Simpson would be 42 if the Simpson’s followed real life ageing.

 

[classic33]

Despite being no slouch, Hans Heyer had a rather dismal foray into Formula 1. Driving for Germany's team ATS, he entered the 1977 Grand Prix at Hockenheim.

He decided to start the race anyway, retiring after nine laps and was subsequently disqualified. He is the only man in F1 to hold a DNS, DNF and DSQ for the same race.

 

[classic33]

There has only been on Polish driver in F1. He was the only Pole to take pole position, and the only Pole to win a race. His name? Robert Kubica.

 

[classic33]

A Devon livestock owner made a claim after he managed to lose his phone inside the rear end of one of his cows while assisting calving on a dark and stormy night (he was using his phone as a torch).

The phone eventually reappeared but no longer worked properly.

 

[Dave7]

Polar bears cannot be seen using night vision glasses because they give out so little heat (they are so well insulated).

 

[Chris S]

John Cleese's family name was originally 'Cheese'.

 

[Chris S]

Rishi Sunak's wife is wealthier than the Queen.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/mar/28/akshata-murthy-who-is-rishi-sunaks-wife