Fascinating Facts and Trivia

Leap years excepted, January always begins on the same day of the week as October.

January is national soup month in the United States.

On January 2, 1870 construction of the Brooklyn bridge in New York began.

January is named after the Roman god Janus, who was always shown as having two heads.

Studies show that people born in the winter months are less irritable and less prone to mood swings than people born in the other seasons.

3,000 posts and 6,000 thanks milestones surpassed Greeny.

I doff my chapeau to you mate. Well done.

I see you've already broken your 3 post rule and it's only day two of the New Year
I hope Liverpool get their first title too-been too long but we've had our hopes dashed twice in the past!

In a recent survey conducted by Channel 5 to find Britain's favourite chocolate the No.1 voted by the public was...
DAIRY MILK! Odd that bars like Kitkat, Twirl, Ripple and even Topic never made the top twenty.

(02-01-2019 19:13 )GreenMachine Wrote:   I see you've already broken your 3 post rule and it's only day two of the New Year
I hope Liverpool get their first title too-been too long but we've had our hopes dashed twice in the past!

In a recent survey conducted by Channel 5 to find Britain's favourite chocolate the No.1 voted by the public was...
DAIRY MILK! Odd that bars like Kitkat, Twirl, Ripple and even Topic never made the top twenty.

Nuts to the three post rule Got to keep this top thread going.

Agree totally with the second part....yep we’ve been burned before, but we never had a defence as good as the one we’ve got now.

Overdue rep coming your way....

Hermaphroditism exists in dogs.

The Anglo-Saxons called January ‘Wulfmonath’ as it was the month that hungry wolves came scavenging at people’s doors.