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RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - billyboy1963 - 27-12-2019 20:48
According to a Georgia State University study, people with blue eyes tend to have a higher tolerance for alcohol and can drink more before they begin to feel the effects.
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - billyboy1963 - 27-12-2019 20:50
The technical name for the noise your stomach makes when it growls is a “borborygmus.”
It occurs when gas moves around in your intestines, so saying that your stomach is rumbling is a bit of a misnomer
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - GMach1 - 27-12-2019 21:56
When the original animated film 'The Snowman' was broadcast people naturally assumed that singing 'Walking in the Air' had been Aled Jones, who had a top ten hit with it in the 90's. However, it was years later that the real chorister was finally credited with singing it in the film, and that was Peter Luty.
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - billyboy1963 - 28-12-2019 16:51
The Great Plague killed roughly 25 million people, which was around a third of the entire population of Europe in the 15th Century.
This particularly affected London because of the narrow streets and lack of sanitation.
During this time, men known as Searchers shouted out ‘Bring out your dead’ all through the summer of 1665.
They carted away dead bodies and threw them in mass burial pits.
Some of which Londoners are still discovering to this day.
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - billyboy1963 - 28-12-2019 16:52
When the London Underground was first proposed, engineers suggested filling the tunnels with water and using barges to float people from station to station, or getting an army of horses to pull the carriages around in the dark.
Evidently, they decided to opt for trains.
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - billyboy1963 - 28-12-2019 16:54
Google was willing to sell the company for under $1 million in 1999 to a company called Excite.
Excite turned down the offer… and were never heard of again.
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - GMach1 - 29-12-2019 00:07
The talk is of a new decade awaiting us come Wednesday morning but we had this argument back in 1999-was the year 2000 the start of a new Millennium; scientists and academics argued that it was 2001 the start of the new decade/millennia because there is no year zero so the same would seem to count with 2019-does it start 1st January, 2020 OR 1st January 2021 because again you don't count zero as a major number. I am sure many people will argue this is a load of nonsense but I leave it up to you to decide.
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - GMach1 - 29-12-2019 17:36
Every person, including identical twins, has a unique eye & tongue print along with their fingerprint.
The “spot” on the 7-Up logo comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was an albino.
315 entries in Webster’s 1996 dictionary were misspelled.
The “save” icon in Microsoft Office programs shows a floppy disk with the shutter on backwards.
Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin both married their first cousins
Camel’s have three eyelids.
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - billyboy1963 - 29-12-2019 20:54
Though the word "kamikaze" was later applied to Japanese suicide pilots during WWII, it literally means "divine wind" and is also used as a historical term to refer to two typhoons that swept through the island nation in 1274 and 1281.
Both times, hordes of Mongols lead by Kublai Khan sailed from China in an attempt to conquer Japan, and both times, a massive storm swept them back.
Japanese Buddhists of the time believed that the storms had been the gods' way of preserving their empire, so they referred to the typhoons as "divine wind."
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - billyboy1963 - 29-12-2019 20:58
Diamonds used to be very rare in the Western world, until the late 1800s, when a diamond mining rush in South Africa made them far more accessible to those outside of the halls of royalty.
A company called De Beers quickly bought up the mines and created an artificial scarcity, as well as a monopoly.
When other diamond sellers have cropped up, De Beers has either bought them out or flooded the local market, driving prices down and putting the sellers out of business.
The company's all-fronts stranglehold on the industry has only recently started to break up.