Things that you probably didn't know - thread.

[Beebo]

Darth Vader is Luke Skywalker's dad!

 

[Peteaud]

Chard in Somerset has a river running down either side of the high street.

One side runs into the English Channel

The other side runs into the Bristol Channel.


Chard is also the home of the 1st powered flight in 1848, it was not the Wright Bros.

 

[Peteaud]

[QUOTE 2310616, member: 76"]84% of statistics are actually made up on the spot to win an argument and have no basis in truth.[/quote]


55% of us knew that.

 

[Minotier]

''Buddhists are forbidden to eat glass because of all the fish in the atmosphere''! Eric Idle.

 

[Mr Haematocrit]

over 60% of an Iceland home Lasagna is horse meat

The 40% they do not mention is the plastic container it resides in, the cellophane to stop the product from falling out of the container and the cardboard packing box

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

A selection from Shrewsbury:

• The world's first iron-framed building (forerunner of all modern skyscrapers) and the world's tallest doric column (Lord Hill's Column) are here.
• Was home to the first ever roadside petrol pump.
• Charles Darwin was born and educated here.
• The stone for surfacing the Formula 1 tracks at Abu Dhabi and Bahrain was supplied from Bayston Hill, just outside the town.

 

[Speicher]

In Slovakia and the Czech Republic moles are required to wear blue dungarees.

These are specially made with help of a frog who soaks the flax, spiders who spin the yarn, ants who weave the cloth and a crawfish who cuts the fabric.

 

[Mr Haematocrit]

Venison is not cheap, its deer

 

[Andrew_Culture]

I can't get close enough to spelling annerversairy for the spell checker to have any decent suggestions other than slavery

 

[grumpyoldgit]

All of the traffic lights in Mexico are rented off a private company.

 

[Minotier]

The first novel written on a typewriter was Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain.

 

[Fnaar]

I'm going to give Mrs F (for Valentines) some chocolates that have been lurking in my wardrobe since Christmas, when I forgot to give them to someone else.

 

[Toshiba Boy]

The human body makes between 2 - 4 pints of saliva every day.

 

[EltonFrog]

I can't get close enough to spelling annerversairy for the spell checker to have any decent suggestions other than slavery

Brilliant! Just Brilliant!

 

[EltonFrog]

Marius Goring is cockney rhyming slang for boring.