Fascinating Facts and Trivia

If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.

If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle.

If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

In Elizabethan England, the spoon was so novel and prized that people carried their own folding spoons to banquets.

Your blood takes a very long trip through your body.

If you could stretch out all of a human’s blood vessels, they would be about 60,000 miles long.

That’s enough to go around the world twice.

There were about 300 bones in your body when you were born, but by the time you reach adulthood you only have 206.

When you wake up in the morning you are at taller than when you go to sleep, because you have let your spine straighten back out after all the bending, sitting, and moving you have done!

(17-12-2019 20:13 )billyboy1963 Wrote:  If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.

If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle.

If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

In a recent edition(a few years ago) of QI(BBC2) Alan Davies mentioned that but it was found to an urban myth and there is no actual evidence to suggest otherwise. And the other myth is that Bob Holness played saxaphone on Gerry Rafferty's Baker Street - although Bob's real claim to fame was he played James Bond in South African on a recording of an Ian Fleming novel.

There is a fruit that tastes like chocolate pudding.

Black sapote has another irresistible name: the chocolate pudding fruit - the fruit—native to Central and South America—tastes like sweet custard with a hint of chocolate. When it's fully ripe, the flavor (and consistency) has been described as a dead ringer for chocolate pudding.

Chainsaws, the horror-movie murder weapon of choice, were invented for aid in childbirth

April 18, 1930, was such a slow news day that at 6:30 PM, the BBC's radio announcer said, “There is no news."

Mother Shipton's Cave near Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, is England's oldest recorded tourist attraction.

Its owner, Charles Slingsby, fenced off the site in 1630 and started charging visitors to gape at this so-called petrifying well.

The mineral-rich water from this uncanny spring has the ability to give objects a stone-like appearance after a prolonged exposure.