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RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - billyboy1963 - 31-12-2019 20:31
Lt. Col. "Mad" Jack Churchill was only British soldier in WWII known to have killed an enemy soldier with a longbow.
"Mad Jack" insisted on going into battle armed with both a medieval bow and a claymore sword
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - GMach1 - 01-01-2020 15:20
About 200,000,000 M&Ms are sold each day in the United States.
Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
There are 318,979,564,000 possible combinations of the first four moves in Chess.
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
Coconuts kill about 150 people each year. That’s more than sharks.
Half of all bank robberies take place on a Friday.
Here's some record facts of 2019:
800,000 cassette tapes were sold
4.3m vinyl records sold
100bn streams occured last year.
Louis Capaldi was the most streamed musician of 2019, Ed Sheeran and Stormzy also made the list.
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - Carl-Gen X - 01-01-2020 15:31
The first Times Square New Year Party was thrown for a newspaper.
The annual tradition of gathering in Times Square started as a party to celebrate the opening of the New York Times building in 1904. Over 200,000 people attended.
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - Carl-Gen X - 01-01-2020 16:05
According to the Salmon Act 1986, anyone found guilty of ‘handling salmon in suspicious circumstances’ can be imprisoned for up to two years.
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - GMach1 - 01-01-2020 17:58
Henry VIIIth served a lot of meat at the Christmas feast in olden days, you would not be surprised to see beef, and a whole Boar's Head(which later had its own carol) later a goose was added but turkey didn't come along until well into the 19th century. The more meat on offer, the more status you had as well as sugar sculptures which included once a full chess set! There was also a tradition of any left-over meat or food be given to the poor, although it was mostly scraps or stale bread.
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - billyboy1963 - 01-01-2020 19:11
Dueling is still legal is Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - billyboy1963 - 01-01-2020 19:14
A category three hurricane releases more energy in ten minutes that all the world's nuclear weapons combined.
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - billyboy1963 - 01-01-2020 19:16
There is a company that will (for £14,000) take your ashes and compress them into a synthetic diamond to be set in jewelry for a loved one.
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - billyboy1963 - 01-01-2020 19:22
A law passed in Nebraska in 1912 set hard rules of the road.
Drivers in the state at night were required to stop every 150 yards, send up a skyrocket, then wait eight minutes for the road to clear before proceeding cautiously, all the while blowing their horn and shooting off flares.
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - GMach1 - 02-01-2020 18:12
The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before it.
(And as a point of reference it is NEVER NEVER LAND and not NEVERLAND that Pan came from-this is thanks to Michael Jackson and his ridiculous playground for kids)
The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
The first bomb the Allies dropped on Berlin in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
The average raindrop falls at 7 miles per hour.
If you put a drop of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.