How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” 21:12 - Dec 17 with 34892 views | colinallcars | True ones please. Samuel Goldwyn of Metro Goldwyn Mayer films is offically named Samuel Goldfish. When he emigrated to the US from Poland, his actual name was Schmuel Goldfisz. The immigration officail misheard it as Samuel Goldfish which he remained for some years. Notta Lotta People Know That. | | | |  |
How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 00:23 - Dec 20 with 3554 views | NorthLondonR | If this thread had been discussed in the early 2000s, that word could've formed the first verse of a dedicated chant for the dieing embers of a Matthew Rose contract, inspired by the Manic Street Preachers hit "Roses in the hospital'... "Hippo-potomonstrosesquippe-dal.. And Rose's in the hospital until around A-A-april" Maybe not. | | |  |
How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 01:20 - Dec 20 with 3496 views | Metallica_Hoop | Forgot to press reply. [Post edited 20 Dec 2024 1:23]
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How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 12:00 - Dec 20 with 3275 views | johann28 | One bottle of wine contains the juice of around 600-800 grapes. | | |  |
How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 14:28 - Dec 20 with 3185 views | derbyhoop | Rihanna's full name is Robyn Rihanna Fenty | |
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How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 20:13 - Dec 20 with 3033 views | FredManRave | I love hearing about astronomical universe numbers. I'm sure we've all heard the "fact" that there are more stars in the Universe than there are grains of sand on earth?! How about a couple more random ones; 1. You can fit all the planets (Pluto not included, for obvious reasons!) in our Solar System between the Earth and Moon. 2. A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus: It takes Venus about 243 Earth days to rotate once on its axis but only 225 Earth days to complete its orbit around the Sun. Loving this thread. [Post edited 20 Dec 2024 20:14]
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How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 20:55 - Dec 20 with 2973 views | Wilkinswatercarrier | The universe is predicted to end in ten thousand trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion years. If an atom represented one year, there are not enough atoms in the entire universe to get near that number. At the end of that time, nothing will be left, black holes will have evaporated and time will cease to exist as there will be nothing left to measure it against. A bit like watching us v Preston. | | |  |
How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 21:02 - Dec 20 with 2953 views | FredManRave | Celar might be into double figures by then?! An electron can be in two places at once. In quantum mechanics, particles like electrons can exist in a superposition, being in multiple states or locations simultaneously. I hope I come back as an electron. If you see the user FredElectronRave then you know it's happened.... | |
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How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 12:16 - Dec 21 with 2747 views | 81A | Wearing camouflage gear is illegal in Barbados | | |  |
How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 15:47 - Dec 21 with 2647 views | JimmyR | Did the ref just bottle sending Lindsay Off there? | | |  |
How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 17:27 - Jan 13 with 2135 views | johann28 | Another interesting thing about Venus is that it's the only planet in the solar system to spin clockwise, so the sun rises in the west. Why this is is something of a mystery. Most think that it used to spin 'normally' but something caused it to flip on its axis and spin the other way (I've had nights like these), whilst another theory is that it simply ran out of puff as it were and stopped rotating, and then started rotating 'backwards'. | | |  |
How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 22:10 - Jan 13 with 2002 views | hubble | The actress Hedi Lamarr was also an inventor, and in 1942 patented a 'secret communications system', and early version of frequency hopping, which played a significant role in WWII and was eventually used to develop Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and GPS. Not just a pretty face.. | |
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How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 23:17 - Jan 13 with 1938 views | BrianMcCarthy | She was also an Austrian Jew, who feld from her Fascist-leaning husband and her Fascist-leaning social circle. An incredible hero in so many ways. | |
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How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 05:12 - Jan 14 with 1848 views | fraserc | The Spanish language has a word that can be pronounced, but not written down. The imperative of the word 'salirle' is pronounced 'sal' + 'le', but can't be written down as 'salle' as two 'l's are pronounced as Y in Spanish. Currently, there is no valid spelling of that word. | | |  |
How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 07:26 - Jan 14 with 1807 views | Loftgirl | No mucha gente sabe eso. | | |  |
How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 08:58 - Jan 14 with 1715 views | wombat | There is not a single point in Britain that is more than 75 miles away from a coastline. The term “bangers and mash” originated during World War I, when sausages that had been soaked in water due to a lack of food would explode (“bang”) when they were cooked. The queen never possessed a passport . | |
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How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 10:12 - Jan 14 with 1654 views | PlanetHonneywood | James Earl Ray, the assassin of Martin Luther King, was apprehended at Heathrow Airport. The first interracial kiss on TV was in 1968 when Captain Kirk snogged Uhura. In the UK, pigeon crap technically still belongs to the crown. This is because it was used to make gunpowder back in the day. | |
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How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 10:25 - Jan 14 with 1633 views | loftus77 | 1 is very surprising. Really? I thought Jupiter and Saturn were huge. 250K miles between Earth and Moon? Well I never. | | |  |
How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 11:22 - Jan 14 with 1556 views | PlanetHonneywood | Bet we'd still take 5,000 away if we draw Sea of Tranquility FC in next season's Third Round! | |
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How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 11:35 - Jan 14 with 1534 views | Juzzie | Leeds would take more. | | |  |
How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 12:25 - Jan 14 with 1482 views | robith | The kiss was also supposed to be Spock but Shatner politiked it to being him - which was why in the 2009 reboot they had Spock and Uhura as romantic partners. It was however, not actually the first interracial televised kiss. Which leads me to my next "not a lot of people know" Martin Luther King convinced Nichelle Nichols to stay on Star Trek. She had decided to quit the show and take a role on Broadway. Roddenberry told her to take the weekend to think it over. That night she met MLK who told her his family were huge fans and loved the show. She told him she was going to quit. 'You cannot, you cannot... For the first time on television, we will be seen as we should be seen every day—as intelligent, quality, beautiful people who can sing, dance, and go to space… who are professors, lawyers… If you leave, that door can be closed, because your role is not a black role, and is not a female role; he can fill it with anybody, even an alien." She went back on Monday and told Gene she was staying [Post edited 14 Jan 12:26]
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How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 12:54 - Jan 14 with 1429 views | kensalriser | And if we lost it would lead to conspiracy theories that the entire fixture was faked. | |
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How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 16:59 - Jan 14 with 1275 views | NewBee | The phrase "Daylight Robbery" is thought to derive from the introduction of a Window Tax in 1696. In order to reduce their tax liability, a lot of householders bricked up some of their windows, thereby having their "daylight stolen". You can sometimes see the results of this even today: | | |  |
How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 17:46 - Jan 14 with 1241 views | derbyhoop | Sorry, jussie but I think a lot of people know that. I has Casablanca as my choice at a Desert Island screening for a significant birthday. The actual lines were " you played it for her. You can play it for me. Play it, Sam. Play it." | |
| "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the Earth all one's lifetime." (Mark Twain)
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How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 19:40 - Jan 14 with 1156 views | Wilkinswatercarrier | Napoleon Bonaparte was actually born Napoleone di Buonaparte as he was of Corscican decent. Corsica had only been ceded to France from the Republic of Genoa one year before his birth. Though he learnt French, he had an Italian/Corsican accent throughout his life. | | |  |
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