Fascinating facts you've recently discovered

[Dr Jekyll]

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]

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]

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]

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]

No matter how obscure and dull a thread is, it's been done before.

[Eric Mc]

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]

ClaphamGT3 said:

There are more plastic flamingoes in the world than real ones

The biggest predator to flamingoes is zookeepers.

[gazchap]

ClaphamGT3 said:

Margaret Thatcher invented soft scoop ice cream

So that's what she did with all the milk!

[The Hypno-Toad]

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

[MJG280]

and the first ATM was a Barclays one which used a paper voucher

[V400TC]

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]

Dogs can't look up.

[evo4a]

OldJohnnyYen said:

Dogs can't look up.

Load of bks or I'm exceptionally lucky as my 2 can.

[longshot]

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]

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]

In Egypt, camels are forced to drink seawater to make them taste like bacon.

[Axionknight]

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]

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]

If all the girls in Essex were laid end to end nobody would be surprised.....

[Snowboy]

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.