Fascinating facts you've recently discovered
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Dr Jekyll

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23,820 posts

291 months

Wednesday 1st January 2014
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In the last week I've been told two.

If women with dyed blonde hair go in swimming pools they turn green.

Foyles bookstore once sued the pope.

Any others?

Thankyou4calling

11,010 posts

203 months

Wednesday 1st January 2014
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Dr Jekyll said:
In the last week I've been told two.

If women with dyed blonde hair go in swimming pools they turn green.

Foyles bookstore once sued the pope.

Any others?
Don't know about the pope thing but the other is absolutely not a fact I'm afraid.

ClaphamGT3

12,243 posts

273 months

Wednesday 1st January 2014
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Margaret Thatcher invented soft scoop ice cream

There are more plastic flamingoes in the world than real ones

HM the King of the Netherlands regularly flies as a 1st Officer for KLM City Hopper on their Fokker 70 fleet

Disco You

3,749 posts

210 months

Wednesday 1st January 2014
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Thankyou4calling said:
Dr Jekyll said:
In the last week I've been told two.

If women with dyed blonde hair go in swimming pools they turn green.

Foyles bookstore once sued the pope.

Any others?
Don't know about the pope thing but the other is absolutely not a fact I'm afraid.
Chlorine in swimming pools does cause issues with some hair dyes.

Papa Hotel

12,760 posts

212 months

Wednesday 1st January 2014
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No matter how obscure and dull a thread is, it's been done before.

Eric Mc

125,717 posts

295 months

Wednesday 1st January 2014
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ClaphamGT3 said:
Margaret Thatcher invented soft scoop ice cream
More correctly, she was a member of the team that developed the product in the 1950s.

Disco You

3,749 posts

210 months

Wednesday 1st January 2014
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ClaphamGT3 said:
There are more plastic flamingoes in the world than real ones
The biggest predator to flamingoes is zookeepers.

gazchap

1,546 posts

213 months

Wednesday 1st January 2014
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ClaphamGT3 said:
Margaret Thatcher invented soft scoop ice cream
So that's what she did with all the milk!

The Hypno-Toad

13,310 posts

235 months

Wednesday 1st January 2014
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Reg Varney, 'star' of 70's 'sitcom' On The Buses, was the first person to use a cashpoint in the UK.


MJG280

723 posts

289 months

Wednesday 1st January 2014
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and the first ATM was a Barclays one which used a paper voucher

V400TC

2,397 posts

214 months

Wednesday 1st January 2014
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The ATM was at Barclays Bank in Enfield.
Reg Varney lived not to far from there on the road to crews hill.

Edited by V400TC on Wednesday 1st January 16:04

OldJohnnyYen

1,455 posts

179 months

Wednesday 1st January 2014
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Dogs can't look up.

evo4a

737 posts

211 months

Wednesday 1st January 2014
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OldJohnnyYen said:
Dogs can't look up.
Load of bks or I'm exceptionally lucky as my 2 can.

longshot

3,286 posts

228 months

Wednesday 1st January 2014
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OldJohnnyYen said:
Dogs can't look up.
Is it that they can't or just can't see a point in doing so?
Theres nothing to eat, lick or shag up there afterall.

Disco You

3,749 posts

210 months

Wednesday 1st January 2014
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evo4a said:
OldJohnnyYen said:
Dogs can't look up.
Load of bks or I'm exceptionally lucky as my 2 can.
Someone get this man a parrot.

size

88 posts

182 months

Wednesday 1st January 2014
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In Egypt, camels are forced to drink seawater to make them taste like bacon.

Axionknight

8,505 posts

165 months

Wednesday 1st January 2014
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OldJohnnyYen said:
Dogs can't look up.
Does Big Al say this? I hear he is connected?

He also makes claims regarding a gun above a certain London bar IIRC.

Hysteria1983

1,616 posts

188 months

Wednesday 1st January 2014
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Thankyou4calling said:
Dr Jekyll said:
In the last week I've been told two.

If women with dyed blonde hair go in swimming pools they turn green.

Foyles bookstore once sued the pope.

Any others?
Don't know about the pope thing but the other is absolutely not a fact I'm afraid.
Agreed, the blonde hair dye one is NOT a fact.

Amused2death

2,526 posts

226 months

Wednesday 1st January 2014
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If all the girls in Essex were laid end to end nobody would be surprised.....

Snowboy

8,028 posts

181 months

Wednesday 1st January 2014
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Hysteria1983 said:
Thankyou4calling said:
Dr Jekyll said:
In the last week I've been told two.

If women with dyed blonde hair go in swimming pools they turn green.

Foyles bookstore once sued the pope.

Any others?
Don't know about the pope thing but the other is absolutely not a fact I'm afraid.
Agreed, the blonde hair dye one is NOT a fact.
It's a fact.
It's what happened to all those girls in Star Trek.