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EddieM

Think someone is a bit common if they pronounce moët et chandon as mow it et Chandon, well don't be, they're correct.

Mr Moët was Dutch, not French and the t is pronounced.

Any other useless facts you care to share (no brexit related rubbish please)
 
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When whales sleep they shut down one half of there brain to sleep

And than when that half wakes the other half go's to sleep

Other wise they would drown

:cool:
 
You have less chance of winning the lotto jackpot, than you have of a stranger coming up to you in the street and guessing your 'phone number correctly first time.
(Source : R5L)
 
A Greenland shark accidentally caught up in a fishing net (?) has been found to be 500 years old :eek:
It was swimming around when Henry the 8th was on the throne
 
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A Greenland shark accidentally caught up in a fishing net (?) has been found to be 500 years old :eek:
It was swimming around when Henry the 8th was on the throne
Given the amount he reputedly ate, I reckon old Henry spent a lot of time on the throne:ROFLMAO:
 
He appointed a "Groom of the Stool" with the duty of wiping the royal arse.
 
You have less chance of winning the lotto jackpot, than you have of a stranger coming up to you in the street and guessing your 'phone number correctly first time.
(Source : R5L)

5!*45!*2!*10! / (50!*12!) for euromillion, which I believe comes in at 1:139,838,160
 
The UK is the world's biggest exporter of cannabis-derived medicines.

 
Some clocks have "four" depicted as the roman numeral IIII, while others use IV.

No-one really knows why.

Some believe IIII to be the original, predating "subtractive counting". Some believe that IIII is more symmetrical on the clock face. Some believe IIII made the number of mouldings required lower than with IV.
 
Alvin Stardust didn't sing on My Coo Ca Choo.
Was watching an eye opening programme last night about the 60's. One fact from it was that the first inter racial screen kiss was not Kirk & Uhura on Star Trek, but on an old British soap "Emergency Ward 10" about 4 years previously.
 
The Americans did not spend millions developing a "space pen". The Fisher Pen was developed privately.
 
and the Russians didn't use a pencil in space. In zero gravity the graphite dust, which is conductive, is liable to get into the electronics.
 
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