Fact of the Day

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What other interesting facts have you learned recently?

 

productive morning you're having

 

Tina is Yoda.

 

The PG tips monkey adverts were voiced by Peter Sellers and Bob Monkhouse.

 

Small, green and indefinably old?

 

There is that too, but I was going more on the object-subject-verb syntax.

 

cheeky basturt, i think.

 

The Spanish national anthem is the only one which has no words.

 

The worlds first weather map, published in the times on 01/04/1875, gave the weather for the previous day.

 

Was it an Irish paper?

 

The Times?

 

John Ainsworth Horrocks (1818-46), who introduced camels to Australia, was also accidentally shot by one. He died of gangrene a month later, but had the camel executed first.

 

Did he get the hump?

 

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On this day 1998 France beat Brazil 3-0 in World Cup Final graced by one of the finest football players ever Zinedine Zidane,that was some team the French had.

 

It cost £7m to make the ship Titanic and £200m to make a film about it.

 

Thierry Henry was my favourite.

 

Women from the remote hill tribes of Central Congo, whose members are dwindling, tie a piece of twine tightly around their partner's penis during childbirth, and as they experience the inevitable agony of contraction and delivery, they tug sharply on the twine to impart a flavour of their experience to their devoted loved one.

 

The collective noun for a group of flamingoes is a "flamboyance"