*The Did you Know thread*

[durhamplumber]

In the film "Lawrence of Arabia," do you know what there isn't?

Jokes.

 

[Bodd]

Jokes.

Now now...... let's not get this thread closed

 

[Brigadier]

Smart phones.

 

[Bodd]

There was a digital watch in Ben Hur
And a Starbucks Coffee in Game of Thrones.

 

[gasbanni]

The Painted Lady migrates from Morocco to the UK every year.

Blooming heck everyone wants to come to the UK ....the french help them on their way.......criminal the way the french allow them to risk their lives in inflatables.

 

[Bodd]

Blooming heck everyone wants to come to the UK ....the french help them on their way.......criminal the way the french allow them to risk their lives in inflatables.

I think they fly.

 

[Brigadier]

A homeless person in the US has a 70% larger carbon footprint than the world average.

 

[Mottie]

All the eggs a woman will ever need to have babies are made before she is born. She will make no more once born. At birth, she has approximately 1,000,000 eggs and by the time she reaches puberty, only about 300,000 are left. Of these, only 300 to 400 will be ovulated during a woman's reproductive lifetime.

 

[Brigadier]

Of these, only 300 to 400 will be ovulated during a woman's reproductive lifetime.

And then, she'll go loco

 

[Bodd]

The film; Bridge over the River Kwai was filmed in Sri Lanker

 

[Ihavenojob]

Diana Coupland, best known as Sid James' wife in Bless this house was the person singing "Under the Mango Tree" in the scene where Ursula Andress comes out of the sea in Dr No.

 

[Seafarer1966]

Did you know
Lawrence of Arabia was sent to Arabia to train the rebels ( groups of bandits ) to cause instability in Ottoman ruled Arabia ?

I think Mr. T.E. Lawrence spent most of his time running away from over-excited Arab gentlemen chasing him over the dunes waving pots of vaseline.

 

[Seafarer1966]

Did you know......

The county town of Derbyshire is NOT Derby.

 

[JohnD]

I think Mr. T.E. Lawrence spent most of his time running away from over-excited Arab gentlemen chasing him over the dunes waving pots of vaseline.

I don't think he ran very fast.

His batman complained about the extra duties he was required to provide.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._E._Lawrence#Sexuality

 

[IT Minion]

Mercury's day is shorter than its year.

At certain points on Mercury's surface, an observer would be able to see the Sun peek up a little more than two-thirds of the way over the horizon, then reverse and set before rising again, all within the same Mercurian day