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How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” 21:12 - Dec 17 with 29015 viewscolinallcars

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.
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How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 12:49 - Jan 29 with 701 viewsthemodfather

joe strummer was born john mellor, i think in Ankara, his dad was working for the govt/ foreign office
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How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 13:26 - Jan 29 with 628 viewsMrSheen

Russian Nationalists have been sabtre-rattling about the need for a "Kaliningrad Corridor" through Poland or Lithuania, particularly since the invasion of Ukraine. Some local traditions die hard.

There's a fascinating collection of weird border stories here, infuriatingly without maps! https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20171210-europes-strange-border-anomaly

Here's an entry for Baarle-Hertog, the mosaic of Belgium and Holland.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baarle-Hertog
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How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 13:29 - Jan 29 with 607 viewsMrSheen

Thanks for that, I saw Saarland had been in World Cup qualifiers in a book I had as a kid, but never realised they had beaten anyone. I checked straight away that the coach wasn't THE Helmut Schoen who won the World Cup in 1974...it wasn't.
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How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 13:32 - Jan 29 with 589 viewsMrSheen

My daddy was a diplomat
He never hurt nobody
He just loved to ride on planes
And eat Ferrero Rocher
[Post edited 29 Jan 13:48]
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How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 13:35 - Jan 29 with 567 viewsBrianMcCarthy

Dammit.

That's today's earworm.

"The opposite of love, after all, is not hate, but indifference."
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How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 13:35 - Jan 29 with 565 viewsGaryHaddock

...and green space a flyover

https://marble-arch.london/news/joe-strummer-rain-gardens/
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How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 14:12 - Jan 29 with 512 viewsNewBee

"Heroin" was originally just a commerical brand name for Diamorphine, which became generic, like eg Hoover.

It was legal in the USA and elsewhere, until progressively banned (eg USA in 1924, UK in 1920):

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How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 14:17 - Jan 29 with 507 viewsTheChef

Ah yes the cough sedative

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How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 14:17 - Jan 29 with 504 viewsDannyPaddox

We’ve got Saarland away last game of the season init
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How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 08:25 - Jan 30 with 289 viewsMetallica_Hoop

The tallest English monarch was Edward VI whose skeleton is 6ft 4 1/2. He would have been 6ft 7" in armour.

Charles II was 6ft 2" and wore high heels in the Frech fashion made fashionable by his sunny cousin Louis XIV who was 5ft 4".

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How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 13:14 - Jan 30 with 202 viewsjohann28

Sorry pedant's corner, I realise, but I think you meant Edward IV - Edward VI was the 'boy king'.
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How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 14:04 - Jan 30 with 155 viewsMetallica_Hoop

Quite right my bad typing quickly.

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