Fascinating Facts and Trivia

During the time that the Bryan Adams hit ‘(Everything I Do) I Do It For You’ was at number 1 in 1991, his follow up single ‘Can’t Stop This Thing We Started’ not only entered the chart, but climbed to number 12, fell down the chart and disappeared from the chart altogether.

(14-01-2019 19:19 )GreenMachine Wrote:  Nice to see you've made 3,000 posts-good achievement.
Odd that, according to David Niven's autobiography, The Moon's a Balloon!

flat earthers actually believe its-a-hologram

Some factions of flat earthers believe that Antarctica is a giant icy wall designed to keep us falling off our disk shaped world!

(14-01-2019 23:15 )Carl_HoneyLover Wrote:  Some factions of flat earthers believe that Antarctica is a giant icy wall designed to keep us falling off our disk shaped world!

not to mention the dome...

Female sharks have thicker skins than their male counterparts.

The Catholic Church once put a dead Pope on trial. After Pope Formosus died in AD 896, his successor had him disinterred, dressed in papal robes and set up to face a laundry list of political charges. The cadaver lost.

King Richard the Lionheart’s heart is still around. After the English monarch died in 1199, his heart was removed and preserved - though today it’s just basically a pile of dust.

Scarlett Moffat from Gogglebox is a trained ballroom dancer and has been fake tanning since she was 14 years old.

Jeremy Clarkson was nearly decapitated while presenting ‘Robot Wars’ when a rotating blade from a competing robot flew towards him at more than 200 mph, narrowly missing his head by less than two inches.

When Stephen Fry appeared as a contestant on University Challenge in 1980, it was his first time on television.