Fascinating Facts and Trivia

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Now I have passed 1,000 posts I formally return this thread to Green Machine,

Keep it going mate...I’ll chip in contributions, but you are now back in command. The centre seat is yours. Just ignore the stale beer and peanuts in your chair.

Well done Carl a fantastic achievement mate. It's not my thread, I only created it, but I did it to attract others who just like the most incredible, amazing, strange and darn right fascinating stuff and a load of trivia that can be posted here for others to enjoy-and you've certainly done that in spades, so not in command, more a keeper or caretaker of the thread. Anyone can join in just as long as it's fascinating or trivial(this is how Trivial Pursuit was born) so thank you for your massive contributions. Stale beer and peanuts? Hmm so what I wonder were these suspicious-looking stains on the leather?

^ What the..suspicious stains???..it’s your chair, what you get up to in it is your business

Contact admin and ask them to change your colour to yellow mate you've made 1,000 posts so you should be entitled.

(22-12-2018 23:32 )GreenMachine Wrote:  Contact admin and ask them to change your colour to yellow mate you've made 1,000 posts so you should be entitled.

I was wondering why your name was in yellow. Cheers for letting me know.

(22-12-2018 23:45 )Carl_HoneyLover Wrote:  

(22-12-2018 23:32 )GreenMachine Wrote:  Contact admin and ask them to change your colour to yellow mate you've made 1,000 posts so you should be entitled.

I was wondering why your name was in yellow. Cheers for letting me know.

I take it you worked out why my name is in pink?

It takes the moon 27.3 days to complete one orbit of the Earth.

It takes a photon 40,000 years to travel from the core of the sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.

In 2015, a Singapore Airlines Freight Plane made an emergency landing after farting goats triggered the smoke alarm. Smoke was later identified as the gas and manure of the 2,186 goats on board.



An insult by Enzo Ferrari triggered the production of the Lamborghini 350 GTV (The 1st Lamborghini) - Commenting on how he thought a Ferrari was too noisy and rough for road use, Ferruccio Lamborghini faced insult from Enzo Ferrari with the super-car guru stating that "He didn't appreciate such comments from a middle aged tractor manufacturer". Ferruccio Lamborghini felt so insulted he went off and created his own car. Just four months later in 1963, the Lamborghini 350 GTV was unveiled at The Turin Motor Show.

For a few day's around Christmas 2010,UK Burger King Restaurants offered a 'Sprout Surprise Whopper'. At the time Burger King UK posted a message on their Facebook page saying "Sorry to hear some of you weren't too keen on the idea of The Sprout Surprise Whopper yesterday, but we're confident that The King can make even brussel sprouts taste good!".

In 1841,the poet Robert Browning inadvertantly used the word “twat" in a poem,wrongly believing it to be a part of a nun's uniform.