Fascinating Facts and Trivia

No, he played the son of James Maynard Kitchener Lampwick.

A donkey will sink in quicksand, but a mule won’t.

he world’s largest desert is in Antarctica.

Remember, a desert is a place that receives little precipitation, it doesn’t necessarily have to be hot!

Youtube was invented when one of the creators missed the Super Bowl halftime show in which Janet Jackson experienced that infamous wardrobe mishap. So, he worked with friends to create a site that allows users to upload videos.

Thanks to our farming methods, the chickens of today contain over 250% more fat than they did about 40 years ago

It may seem crazy, but worldwide, more people own a phone than a toilet.

Did you know the national animal in Scotland is the unicorn?

Despite the fact that this animal doesn’t exist, the Scots gave it this honor due to its importance in Celtic myths and because the animal is viewed as very majestic and chivalrous.

(10-02-2020 20:15 )Chrisst Wrote:  No, he played the son of James Maynard Kitchener Lampwick.

Indeed who was played by...Dick Emery(Ann Emery in Rentaghost was his sister)

Venus and Uranus are the only planets that rotate opposite to the direction of their orbit.

John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Monroe died on July 4th.

Dolphins can look in different directions with each eye. They can sleep with one eye open.

The Falkland Isles (pop. about 2000) has over 700,000 sheep (350 per person).

There are 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.

The city of Venice stands on about 120 small islands.

Fascinating movie fact: When the makers of the original Doctor Doolittle(with Rex Harrison) were in a small English village which would double as Puddleby-on-the-Marsh, a certain soon-to-be Polar explorer and would-be James Bond, Sir Ranulph Twistleton Wickham-Fiennes was incensed at them damming up a river and so he decided he would blow up the set and even set charges. However, someone squealed on him and he was arrested.

Thunderbirds puppets and their actor influences
Scott Tracy-Sean Connery
Jeff Tracy-Lorne Greene
Lady Penelope-Sylvia Anderson(Gerry's wife, not an actress but very glamorous back then-also did the voice)
Troy Tempest-James Garner
The Hood-Yul Brunner

The past-tense of the English word “dare” is “durst”

Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms like fried bacon.

Of all the words in the English language, the word 'set' has the most definitions!

What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France.

"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.