I didn't know that! Tell us something interesting!

They close the main road everytime a plane wants to land in Gibraltar.

I love this thread

I did not know that GillT57.

For centuries, there was a law forbidding the sale of broken gingerbread men. It was high treason, as the gingerbread man represented the king, and if it was broken, it suggested the seller wanted him dead.

I feel really thick never having realised this.....but percentages of numbers are interchangeable (if that's the correct term) so 16% of 45 is the same as 45% of 16, 7% of 89 is the same as 89% of 7. All those years of maths at school and I never knew that.

Just seen on Facebook , a sort of did you know....
“ 1972 is as far away from 2022 as it is from 1922” which sounds really strange.

The men’s wee badger thing didn’t work in our garden...

“Anne Boleyn had a bigger bust than Jayne Mansfield, and both died by decapitation.”

I just looked up Jayne Mansfield's death JaneD666 and found out something else interesting….
She was the actress Mariska Hatigay's mother!

The first person to ever be charged for speeding was in 1896. He was driving at 8 mph, which was more than 4 times the legal limit. He was fined £4/7/0.

Elizabeth 27 I wonder if that gives the lie (not that it really matters) in films where the hero gets through the security door using the dead guard's fingerprint?

Facial recognition and fingerprint access on an iPhone will not work if the person is dead.

It needs the heat source from the eyes or the electrical flow from the finger.

Cashews are drupe fruit that grow from the base of cashew apples, which grow on trees. Peanuts are classed as legumes, so they aren't a nut either.

Tynwald, Isle of Man, is the oldest continuous parliament in the world at over 1,000 years. It is also the first place to give women the vote.

Did you know the average person has 67 different species of bacteria in their belly button?
Yuk.

Shinamae

Heroin was once used to treat children’s coughs. (Up to 1912 apparently)

And Coca Cola used to contain cocaine, hence the name.

What should you do with the pawpaw seeds? eat them or what?

Heroin was once used to treat children’s coughs. (Up to 1912 apparently)

It’s only the female duck that quacks and a ducks quack doesn’t echo.

I knew that too!

How could I have learnt so much but can't remember it?

Thora Hird was Mel Torme's mother in law.

He married her daughter, Janette Scott.

lucid

Birmingham has more miles of canal than Venice.

I forgot that, lucid

Yes, it's a most interesting excursion if anyone is in that area. I went years ago on an organised trip - fascinating.

There is at least 2 sword lengths between the red lines on the floor of the House of Commons, supposedly to stop the members killing each other. I’ve just been told that by my DGS who is here revising Maths.

Birmingham has more miles of canal than Venice.

David Bowie had a spider named after him - it is called the Heteropoda David Bowie.

The Cabinet Office in Whitehall is built partly on the site of a former Real Tennis Court where courtiers could watch the King and his friends play (just as civil servants today can watch Ministers fight it out for the top job!) The north wall of the Court still exists and dates from about 1534 but is not visible to the public.

On the contrary! The whole point is to try different areas and see the effects of stimuli in order to be absolutely accurate!