Surprising if unimportant facts you've discovered recently.

[Dr Jekyll]

John Thaw was 36 when The Sweeney finished, and had just turned 60 when he died.

Jan Francis was 39 when Just Good Friends finished.

[CaptainSlow]

Sharks will only attack you if you are wet.

[The Mad Monk]

Doofus said:

I worked on a team with WWF (back when it was called WWF) looking at reconolising the high Andes

Reconolising? Isn't that something you do to tired leather upholstery? Is that what you use hare skin for?

[bomma220]

CaptainSlow said:

Sharks will only attack you if you are wet.

Unless you're wearing a dry suit, in which case you'd be dry. But the buggers will still have a go...

[markcoznottz]

Dr Jekyll said:

John Thaw was 36 when The Sweeney finished, and had just turned 60 when he died.

Jan Francis was 39 when Just Good Friends finished.

He looked 60 in his early 30's.

[vonuber]

Mariska Hargitay is Jayne Mansfield's daughter.

Angela Lansbury's daughter was involved with the Manson Family.

[anonymous-user]

markcoznottz said:

He looked 60 in his early 30's.

booze n fags, 70's diet.

[55palfers]

The Spruce goose said:

markcoznottz said:

He looked 60 in his early 30's.

booze n fags, 70's diet.

Everyone looked older in the '70s

[CanAm]

The Spruce goose said:

Pilots of the Messerschmitt Me 262 claimed 542 Allied kills.

Eric!

[GAjon]

CanAm said:

The Spruce goose said:

Pilots of the Messerschmitt Me 262 claimed 542 Allied kills.

Eric!

The first aeroplane the Spitfire shot down was a Hurricane in a friendly fire incident.

[Dr Jekyll]

The last time Spitfires were ever in combat was against other Spitfires.

[Jockman]

Sure I heard this on Jeremy Vine last week....

The average time a pilot uses his controls on a flight.......7 seconds.

[Thankyou4calling]

55palfers said:

Everyone looked older in the '70s

I didn't

[popeyewhite]

You can be arrested for spitting in Singapore.

[Jockman]

There are no nuts in a bag of peanuts.

[simoid]

Jockman said:

There are no nuts in a bag of peanuts.

Lots of rabbits though: there's a rabbit in every peanut.

[RC1807]

Thankyou4calling said:

55palfers said:

Everyone looked older in the '70s

I didn't

Nor me.
I was born in 1970, and I definitely look much older now than I did then.

[technodup]

Laura Trott and Becky James have hairy fannies.

[ikarl]

technodup said:

Laura Trott and Becky James have hairy fannies.

proof?

[FailHere]

ClaphamGT3 said:

There are more plastic flamingos in the world than real ones.

Margaret Thatcher invented soft-scoop ice cream

Nicholas Parsons' father discovered Margaret Thatcher (a bit of a technicality I know, as he was the doctor who assisted at her birth)