Fascinating Facts and Trivia

Every 48 seconds a UK citizen disappears in IKEA and is never seen again.

Approximately 500 000 tourists die each year after failing to mind the gap between the train and the platform

Are you sure about those facts goat man? They sound very strange, Imeman I've heard of people getting lost in IKEA but disappearing?

(18-10-2018 13:11 )GreenMachine Wrote:  Are you sure about those facts goat man? They sound very strange, Imeman I've heard of people getting lost in IKEA but disappearing?

The only thing for sure is nothings for sure
I hope its not true im going there tomorrow

(18-10-2018 13:35 )goatman222 Wrote:  

(18-10-2018 13:11 )GreenMachine Wrote:  Are you sure about those facts goat man? They sound very strange, Imeman I've heard of people getting lost in IKEA but disappearing?

The only thing for sure is nothings for sure
I hope its not true im going there tomorrow

True, and death and taxes.
Did you know that the above phrase about the only certainty in life being death and taxes, is often attributed to being first quoted by Benjamin Franklin.
But apparently, according to Wiki; "The Cobbler of Preston" by Christopher Bullock (1716), contains the phrase:
’Tis impossible to be sure of any thing but Death and Taxes.

I never knew that, see how educational this forum is..

Let us know which branch of IKEA you are going to, so that we can send out a search and rescue party if you don't appear on the forum within 24 hours of tomorrow.

More stuff (courtesy of the QI book)

Princess Diana smuggled sweets into William and Harry's school in their football socks.

£200,000 in loose change is found on public transport in London every year.

Karl Marx spent more than half his life in England.

Blowing out the candles on a birthday cake increases the number of bacteria on it by up to 1,400 per cent.

The ancient Greeks cured hangovers by wrapping their heads in cabbage leaves.

Not sure if the following is practiced anymore, but back in the 1950's when me and my sister were kids, 5 or 6 yrs maybe; if we had bad chilblains we soaked our feet in a pot containing our own urine.

Tweed jackets used to be soaked in urine-no wonder the gentry acted like total arses!

(18-10-2018 20:45 )GreenMachine Wrote:  Tweed jackets used to be soaked in urine-no wonder the gentry acted like total arses!

I think dick-heads is a better description Green Machine, as urine comes from that part of the body.