Fanciful Facts
- Thread starter Joey Shabadoo
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guitarpete247
Just about surviving
- Location
- Leicestershire
The patent application for "Toblerone" was signed by Albert Einstein who was a clerk in the patent office.
It's well known that the recipient of Adolf Hitler's missing testicle was German physicist Karl Heinz Globeschwiper.
What isn't so well known though is that in October 1945 he was spirited away to the USSR to work on the Sputnik programme.
He was then given the new identity of a Soviet scientist, Ivan Ooduknickabolokov.
What isn't so well known though is that in October 1945 he was spirited away to the USSR to work on the Sputnik programme.
He was then given the new identity of a Soviet scientist, Ivan Ooduknickabolokov.
downesy
Veteran
- Location
- Ayrshire via Birmingham
Crisps use by date is always on a saturday.
Smokin Joe
Legendary Member
- Location
- Bare headed cyclist, Smoker
When you meet the girl of your dreams you'll be unshaven, dressed like a tramp and drunk.
classic33
Leg End Member
Thought it was on a Sunday.
Bianchi boy
Über Member
- Location
- North wales
The biggest desert in the world is ? The North pole
raleighnut
Legendary Member
- Location
- One of the 'Elite'
Worked for me, we're still together 20yrs later.
In that case another Greenwich film fact.
The storming of the barricades scenes from film of Les Miserables and the stage coach chase from Pirates of the Caribbean (2nd or 3rd one) with Johnny Depp on the roof were shot back to back on the same set at the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich.
Which indecently is also where 'Jack Ryan' (Harrison Ford) gets shot in front of 'Downing Street' in Patriot Games and John Hurt looks over 'Moscow' in War & Peace.
Harry Potter meanwhile was shot inside the same building and a few weeks back they were shooting a Victorian street scene for a BBC drama.
raleighnut
Legendary Member
- Location
- One of the 'Elite'
Another Greenwich fact, did you know that the 'Prime Meridian' is actually in the wrong place, it should be 334 feet further east.
http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rc...8.html&usg=AFQjCNENnelDsyVt5YVShmltXuuN3bx93Q
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classic33
Leg End Member
An Irishman sold it to the US Navy.
swee'pea99
Legendary Member
Quite a lot of Shaun of the Dead was shot in our street. The convenience store is where we buy our milk. There were zombies running around with severed arms, covered in blood - we were a bit worried that the girls might be a bit freaked out (aged sort of 5-ish) but they loved it.
