Share Your Interesting But Not Very Useful Facts

Share Your Interesting But Not Very Useful Facts

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DickyC

Original Poster:

49,835 posts

199 months

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

glenrobbo

35,304 posts

151 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

4,840 posts

213 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Crisps go out of date on Saturdays.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

283 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

3,067 posts

100 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Crisps go out of date on Saturdays.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

223 months

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


Pooh

3,692 posts

254 months

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

QuartzDad

2,260 posts

123 months

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

languagetimothy

1,099 posts

163 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

321 posts

58 months

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

StevieBee

12,938 posts

256 months

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

P5BNij

15,875 posts

107 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

55 months

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

Condi

17,262 posts

172 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

35,304 posts

151 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

50,637 posts

156 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

43,427 posts

151 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

5,259 posts

184 months

Saturday 21st March 2020
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Sylvester Stallone directed Staying Alive.

98elise

26,681 posts

162 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

236 months

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