Fascinating Facts and Trivia

Cats sweat through their paws.

The long since defunct fireworks company Astra was the front used by the spy agency that Michael Caine worked for in the film The Ipcress File.

In 2018 at 'Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest' in Coney Island, New York, Joey Chestnut set a new world record by eating 74 Hot Dogs in just 10 minutes!!. 30 more Hot Dogs than the contestant in second place, earning him a total of 10,000 dollers in prize money.

The orchestral piece by Carl Orff-Carmina Burana was the dramatic music used to advertise OLD SPICE "the mark of a man"

Karl Jenkins first came to fame when his music Adiemus was used by British Airways in their expensive advertisement-you might recall a load of people come out of the sea converging onto an island and make up a globe and then a face that winks. As mentioned elsewhere that had a singer called Miriam Stockley who had been a backing singer on the theme tune to...DANGER MOUSE!

Canadian Bill Mitchell provided the husky voice for the long defunct aftershave DENIM "for the man who doesn't have to try...too hard!"

Gorgeous Carry on, Bond actress/model Valerie Leon was the femme fatale in the HAI KARATE ads, yes another fragrance for men.

Farting helps reduce high blood pressure and is good for your health.

Not if you're standing down wind it isn't OR you move towards it after you've done it My pill I take, I was told by the nurse that normally you would fart like a horse-well I've never seen nor heard a horse fart, so I had to take her word for it.

(24-01-2019 18:44 )GreenMachine Wrote:  Not if you're standing down wind it isn't OR you move towards it after you've done it My pill I take, I was told by the nurse that normally you would fart like a horse-well I've never seen nor heard a horse fart, so I had to take her word for it.

I have...Jesus Christ once you've heard a horse unload a gas bomb you never forget it!

Pigeons used to feature in Trafalgar Square and used to appear flying off into the air at the start of a film-can't remember which company used that-but the last thing to fly into the Square was a helicopter carrying Tom Cruise for one of his sci-fi films. And whereas in Mary Poppins you might "feed the birds, tuppence a bag" it was more like 10p for a pot of feed.

Lesbians and deaf women wear the same clothes

Deaf men and women don't want you to clap if they perform because although they can see it, they can't hear it so the way to 'applaud' is stick your hands in the air and twist your hands in a side to side motion.