Share Your Interesting But Not Very Useful Facts

[General Price]

Nimby said:

According to This Old Tony, 15/16ths of the world uses the metric system.

[Pothole]

Roofless Toothless said:

Riley Blue said:

Fermit and Sexy Sarah said:

Riley Blue said:

Are you sure 101 isn't written one hundred and one in English speaking countries outside the UK other than the USA?

The 'fact' was told by an American friend, so no, I can't be 100%.

Go across the Channel and twenty one is written vingt et un

Or soixante neuf.

Bonet de douche, Rodders. Mange tout, mange tout!

[StevieBee]

General Price said:

Sylvester Stallone directed Staying Alive.

He did indeed - although the film, not the music video!

[irocfan]

Anthony Micallef said:

Oliver Hardy never said “That’s another fine mess you’ve got me in to”

Actually he DID say that - he didn't say “That’s another fine mess you’ve gotten US in to” (http://www.stanlaurelandoliverhardy.com/nicemess.htm)

[General Price]

irocfan said:

Anthony Micallef said:

Oliver Hardy never said “That’s another fine mess you’ve got me in to”

Actually he DID say that - he didn't say “That’s another fine mess you’ve gotten US in to” (http://www.stanlaurelandoliverhardy.com/nicemess.htm)

He said,nice mess.

[Parkette]

The word Trivia comes from the latin word Trivium, a place where three roads meet. Travellers made a point of resting at a Trivium and telling other travellers of what lay on the roads ahead of them.

[P5BNij]

In the 1970 film 'The Man Who Haunted Himself' Roger Moore's character crashes his Rover P5B Saloon on the M4, the following year the film's director Basil Dearden died when he crashed his Rover P5B Saloon on the same stretch of the M4.

In 1969 Joanna Lumley auditioned for a part in Gerry Anderson's 'UFO' but the part went to Gabrielle Drake, in 1976 Drake auditioned for the part of Purdey in 'The New Avengers' but the role went to Lumley.

[ApOrbital]

Parkette said:

The word Trivia comes from the latin word Trivium, a place where three roads meet. Travellers made a point of resting at a Trivium and telling other travellers of what lay on the roads ahead of them.

DC.

[irocfan]

General Price said:

irocfan said:

Anthony Micallef said:

Oliver Hardy never said “That’s another fine mess you’ve got me in to”

Actually he DID say that - he didn't say “That’s another fine mess you’ve gotten US in to” (http://www.stanlaurelandoliverhardy.com/nicemess.htm)

He said,nice mess.

note to self - read your own fking links!!!!

[General Price]

irocfan said:

General Price said:

irocfan said:

Anthony Micallef said:

Oliver Hardy never said “That’s another fine mess you’ve got me in to”

Actually he DID say that - he didn't say “That’s another fine mess you’ve gotten US in to” (http://www.stanlaurelandoliverhardy.com/nicemess.htm)

He said,nice mess.

note to self - read your own fking links!!!!

[General Price]

Humphrey Bogart didn't say 'Play it again,Sam' in Casablanca.

[The Moose]

Bill Gates predicted COVID-19 5 years ago.

[Big-Bo-Beep]

P5BNij said:

In 1969 Joanna Lumley auditioned for a part in Gerry Anderson's 'UFO' but the part went to Gabrielle Drake, in 1976 Drake auditioned for the part of Purdey in 'The New Avengers' but the role went to Lumley.

Dont think we need an excuse to show a picture of Miss Drake in a serious role, Gabby, of course, famous sister to Charlie Drake.

[Doofus]

In the same way that the mods won't need an excuse to delete that and send you a stroppy email

[nonsequitur]

Pothole said:

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

St. Johnstone 5 Hamilton Academicals 4

[nonsequitur]

General Price said:

Humphrey Bogart didn't say 'Play it again,Sam' in Casablanca.

I think Ingrid Bergman said to Dooley Wilson, 'Play it Sam. Play it one more time'.

[irocfan]

Doofus said:

In the same way that the mods won't need an excuse to delete that and send you a stroppy email

[TTmonkey]

Fermit and Sexy Sarah said:

Unless you live in the United Kingdom where it's proper to write 101 as one hundred and one, there is no number from 1 to 999 that includes the letter "a" in its word form. One, two, three, four, five, six… twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty. You can keep going, but you won't find the first letter of the alphabet until you hit one thousAnd.

Quatre

[Esceptico]

When we moved to NZ a number of people in the UK remarked that we were now closer to Japan - yet when I checked the distance between the UK and Japan and between Japan and NZ is the same to within a few hundred miles. Japan and NZ are closer when it comes to time zones.

Also: Japan and NZ are the same distance from the equator (but on opposite sides).

And they suffer from frequent earthquakes.

But you could hardly find two more different cultures.

[TTmonkey]

TTmonkey said:

Fermit and Sexy Sarah said:

Unless you live in the United Kingdom where it's proper to write 101 as one hundred and one, there is no number from 1 to 999 that includes the letter "a" in its word form. One, two, three, four, five, six… twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty. You can keep going, but you won't find the first letter of the alphabet until you hit one thousAnd.

Quatre

I see some other smart arse has already pointed this out....