Fascinating Facts and Trivia

Did anyone watching the BBC coverage yesterday notice that the old black and white footage of Big Ben (Elizabeth Tower) had wooden planks around it then fast forward one hundred years to the same day and hour of the bongs and low and behold scaffolding around it again -now that was spooky!

In 2011 a study revealed that there were at the time,16 amateur superheroes attempting to fight crime in the UK.

Woodpeckers bang their heads into trees at 15mph, 12,000 times a day - now that's a hell of a headache!

The first Kleenex tissues were made from the same material as the gas mask filters during World War I.

Sloths can hold their breath for 40 minutes.

Eighty-five percent of bikinis never get wet.

Twenty-five per cent of the world's prisoners are in the US.

You might know this if you're a Harry Potter fan but did you know that the body double of Rubius Haggrid (played brilliantly by Robbie Coletrane) and seen in the distance shots is in the ex England Rugby player Martin Bayfield at around 6ft.7" or so and he has been in every Harry Potter film. He was also seen on screen as himself in the Crimewatch UK series.

^ Bayfield is 6'10" mate.I met him when I was 6'4"(before I suffered from spinal compression)and he dwarfed me.

Well I knew he was ultra-tall
This is a good one: During World War II, London bookshop Foyles bomb-proofed itself by covering the roof with copies of Mein Kampf! Mein gott!!

Back in 2009,a research team found over 100,000 golf balls in Loch Ness whilst trying to locate the legendary creature.

(15-11-2018 01:59 )rpj316 Wrote:  Back in 2009,a research team found over 100,000 golf balls in Loch Ness whilst trying to locate the legendary creature.

Are you trying to say that's how they make golf balls? Nessie shits them out..???

(15-11-2018 12:55 )kelly1066 Wrote:  

(15-11-2018 01:59 )rpj316 Wrote:  Back in 2009,a research team found over 100,000 golf balls in Loch Ness whilst trying to locate the legendary creature.

Are you trying to say that's how they make golf balls? Nessie shits them out..???

Well Kelly that water is awfully murky and brown!