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RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - GMach1 - 30-01-2020 02:39
The creator of Wonder Woman, William Marston invented the polygraph or lie detector.
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - GMach1 - 30-01-2020 13:41
Sherlock Holmes creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a bit of a prankster and once sent a letter to five friends as a joke saying "we are discovered, flee immediately!" One of them took it seriously and vanished!
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - billyboy1963 - 30-01-2020 19:39
Farting helps reduce high blood pressure and is good for your health.
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - billyboy1963 - 30-01-2020 19:40
Handshakes were originally meant to make sure that the person you were meeting wasn’t carrying a concealed weapon.
The hand clasp proved that your hand was empty and shaking was meant to dislodge any weapons hiding up the sleeve.
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - billyboy1963 - 30-01-2020 19:42
By law, a pregnant woman can pee anywhere she wants to in Britain, even if she chooses, in a police officer’s helmet.
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - billyboy1963 - 30-01-2020 19:58
Coffee was originally called ‘Arabic Wine’ when it was first brought to Europe.
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - GMach1 - 30-01-2020 20:06
(30-01-2020 19:39 )billyboy1963 Wrote: Farting helps reduce high blood pressure and is good for your health.Not if you're in an enclosed space
Jack Lord, Steve McGarrett in Hawaii Five-0 withdrew from public life after he was devastated at losing his looks.
James McArthur(who played Danny Williams or Dan-O in that show) had a famous mother, Helen Hayes(Snoop Sisters and Herbie films)
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - GMach1 - 31-01-2020 02:26
The only real lake in the Lake District(loads of meres, waters etc) is Bassenthwaite Lake.
Nat Burton wrote the famous song 'White Cliffs of Dover' as made famous by forces sweetheart Dame Vera Lynn BUT he had never been to Dover, never seen Dover and the 'bluebirds' mentioned weren't native to this country but North America. Bluebirds featured in Over the Rainbow and Zip-per-de doo dah(from Disney's Song of the South which mixed animation and live-action)
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - GMach1 - 31-01-2020 17:53
In the U.S, Frisbees out sell footballs, baseballs and basketballs combined.
In most watch advertisements the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
If you plant an apple seed, it is almost guaranteed to grow a tree of a different type of apple.
Al Capone’s business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
The only real person to be a PEZ head was Betsy Ross.
There are about 450 types of cheese in the world. 240 come from France.
Reading an article in the Daily Mail this morning by an author that has written about Sir Roger Moore, he states that one of Sir Roger's biggest regrets was he never got to work with Morecambe and Wise-something he would have been great at because he also appeared with the Muppets on their show. He was renowned for his brilliant sense of humour and probably would have been able to do a song and dance routine let alone be the butt of the joke.
RE: Fascinating Facts and Trivia - billyboy1963 - 31-01-2020 21:45
The standard 750ml wine bottle is set at that sometimes inconvenient measure because that is all a skilled glass-blower could make in one single puff.