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

Thora Hird was Mel Torme's mother in law.

He married her daughter, Janette Scott.

I knew that too!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

“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!

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...

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.

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 did not know that GillT57.

I love this thread

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

100-plus Jews in Rome were saved by three doctors who invented a highly contagious disease called Syndrome K. In October 1943 it frightened off the Nazis from arresting the Jews.

What an interesting thread!
I was amazed when I read that Edinburgh is further west than Bristol.

Occasionally it snows in the Sahara.

I missed the Edinburgh fact, who knew.

The publicly owned U.K. laboratories have been decimated by the present Government. So C-19 tests had to be outsourced to private laboratories. Consequently the private sector during the pandemic has made a fortune from the Tax payers, Veterinary state Laboratories have gone the same way. They got closed down.
We don’t have enough trained Vets and so they can charge hefty fees.
We also have a shortage of Pharmacists.

You might be on the wrong thread, SylviaPlathssister ?

This is Chat not News and Politics.
Interesting facts which we didn't know (or had forgotten).