Share Your Interesting But Not Very Useful Facts

Share Your Interesting But Not Very Useful Facts

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DickyC

Original Poster:

53,555 posts

211 months

Saturday 21st March 2020
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No part of Berkshire is more than 8.5 miles from the M4.

glenrobbo

37,507 posts

163 months

Saturday 21st March 2020
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Reading is no longer sitting on the dock of the bay. nono

"Oh, 'tis!"

"Oh no,' tisn't!"

bristolbaron

5,245 posts

225 months

Saturday 21st March 2020
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Crisps go out of date on Saturdays.

(Can be useful in a pub for a ‘next round’ bet, but pubs are closed = not very useful)

Pothole

34,367 posts

295 months

Saturday 21st March 2020
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There is only one football league team in England and Scotland's top 4 divisions with a J in its name

T6 vanman

3,235 posts

112 months

Saturday 21st March 2020
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bristolbaron said:
Crisps go out of date on Saturdays.

(Can be useful in a pub for a ‘next round’ bet, but pubs are closed = not very useful)
Just checked ….. Woah .. I'm using that

Fort Jefferson

8,237 posts

235 months

Saturday 21st March 2020
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More people live inside the yellow circle, than outside it.


Pooh

3,692 posts

266 months

Saturday 21st March 2020
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Perth harbour is the most inland harbour in the UK.

QuartzDad

2,541 posts

135 months

Saturday 21st March 2020
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France's longest land border is with Brazil.

languagetimothy

1,362 posts

175 months

Saturday 21st March 2020
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glenrobbo said:
Reading is no longer sitting on the dock of the bay. nono

"Oh, 'tis!"

"Oh no,' tisn't!"
Back in the day i suprised my GF to go and see Otis Reading and she was initially very excited but then really annoyed. Oh well, I enjoyed it, And thought the Berkshire based elevator manufacturers did a really interesting tour of their factory.

CLX

351 posts

70 months

Saturday 21st March 2020
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B&Q stands for Block & Quayle

StevieBee

14,058 posts

268 months

Saturday 21st March 2020
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The dot above an i or j is called a tittle.

P5BNij

15,875 posts

119 months

Saturday 21st March 2020
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After the gang had fled to Letherslade Farm, the first people on the scene of the great train robbery on 8/8/63 were the crew of a freight train passing on one of the adjacent lines, one of whom had a two car passenger unit named after him (Bill Green).

anonymous-user

67 months

Saturday 21st March 2020
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Globally, 53% of what Amazon ships, is fresh air.

Condi

18,604 posts

184 months

Saturday 21st March 2020
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QuartzDad said:
France's longest land border is with Brazil.
Eh?



Anyway - Cleopatra lived closer to the release of the iPhone than the building of the pyramids.

glenrobbo

37,507 posts

163 months

Saturday 21st March 2020
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Condi said:
Eh?



Anyway - Cleopatra lived closer to the release of the iPhone than the building of the pyramids.
What?
Silicon Valley of the Kings? wobble

vaud

54,275 posts

168 months

Saturday 21st March 2020
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Condi said:
QuartzDad said:
France's longest land border is with Brazil.
Eh?
Mainland France's longest border is with Spain, at 408 miles, but French Guiana, a French overseas territory, has a border with Brazil measuring 450 miles.

TwigtheWonderkid

45,783 posts

163 months

Saturday 21st March 2020
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On average, Mercury is the nearest planet to all the other planets in the solar system.

General Price

5,614 posts

196 months

Saturday 21st March 2020
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Sylvester Stallone directed Staying Alive.

98elise

29,280 posts

174 months

Saturday 21st March 2020
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Johan Renck who directed the excellent TV series Chernobyl is also known as singer songwriter Stakka Bo

https://youtu.be/sGNK-cOtxSs


skinny

5,269 posts

248 months

Saturday 21st March 2020
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There are around 10 lightening strikes on the earth every second