Fascinating Facts and Trivia

There are no muscles in your fingers: Their function is controlled by muscles in your palms and arms.

Coca-Cola actually sells soup in a can.

Bistrone is a nourishing meal on the go, available in two flavors in Japan

(22-01-2020 23:16 )billyboy1963 Wrote:  One of the most famous movie lines in history was never said.

We often quote, “Play it again, Sam,” from Casablanca; but the real line is, “Play it, Sam. Play ‘As Time Goes By.’”

I've seen that film twice I am pretty sure the line is "Play it for me Sam, you played it for him so play it for me" or something like that. And Jimmy Cagney never said "You dirty rat!" another oft misquoted line.

Saturday this weekend will be Burns Night and Chinese New Year-this alignment will not happen again for 76 years(a bit like the appearance of Halley's Comet) so make the most of it do yer ken?

The “hashtag” key on your keyboard (#) is called an octotroph.

In 1907, an ad campaign for Kellogg’s Corn Flakes offered a free box of cereal to any woman who would wink at her grocer.

The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

The average person will shed almost 20 kgs (40 lbs) of skin in their lifetime.

The three dots ... you often see after a word or to show a pause in a sentence is called an elipsis!

Ten percent of all photos in the world have been taken in the last twelve months