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Yesterday I discovered (AKA "read on a different forum") that designer Wayne Hemingway is the son of (genuine) Mohawk chief and 1960s Saturday afternoon wrestling star Billy Two Rivers.
( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Two_Rivers )
What you got?
Good fact that, interesting.
Not so much a fact but a story I was reading up yesterday on András Toma. He was taken prisoner by the Russians in WW2 and ended up in a military hospital. When they heard him speaking Hungarian they thought he was just gibbering so sent him to an asylum. No-one there realised he was speaking Hungarian and he ended up staying for 55 years until a Hungarian speaking medic spoke to him and realised what was happening. He was released in 2000 as the longest serving WW2 POW having not had a conversation with anyone in 55 years.
When the Hungarian authorities realised he was not dead and had, technically, been a POW they gave him 55 years back pay but he only lived for another four years.
Found out today that the fastest mammal in the world is a bat, not a cat. Years of being told it was a cheetah and it's actually a free-tailed bat
Yeah, but what if it was a WORKING cat?
He was released in 2000 as the longest serving WW2 POW having not had a conversation with anyone in 55 years.
That is incredibly sad.
New Mexico is not named after the country Mexico.
I found out today that there are 105 countries sans a McDonald's "restaurant."
I was surprised there are so many.
And that Bolivia closed all of its Maccy Ds in 2002.
ears of being told it was a cheetah and it’s actually a free-tailed bat
fastest land animal TBF which is what I was always told but the bat is only a recent discovery.
Chas out of Chas and Dave played the bassline hook on 'My Name is' by Eminem.
Chas out of Chas and Dave played the bassline hook on ‘My Name is’ by Eminem.
That's the first one I'm Googling because I really want it to be true!
Scotland has over 400 words related to snow.
And 401 for a smack in the mouth.
Chas out of Chas and Dave played the bassline hook on ‘My Name is’ by Eminem.
That’s the first one I’m Googling because I really want it to be true!
Yes they were session musicians on Labi Sifre's 'I got the...' which was sampled by Eminem.
matt_outandabout
Full MemberScotland has over 400 words related to snow.
Where do you draw the line here? Like, clearly licky boom boom down are all related to snow...
All "sell by" dates on packets of crisps fall on a Saturday
All “sell by” dates on packets of crisps fall on a Saturday
Jesus!! That thread was years ago...
Jesus!! That thread was years ago…
TBF, I've only been here 2 1/2 years 😉
TBF, I’ve only been here 2 1/2 years 😉
That wasn’t a criticism, I’m just amazed by how the time has flown by.
One of my favourite facts is that Churchill's famous "we will fight them on the beaches" speech was only recorded after the war had finished, and was only heard in parliament at the time.
Lotus got their first Formula 1 win in Cornwall
One of my favourite facts is that Churchill’s famous “we will fight them on the beaches” speech was only recorded after the war had finished,
If you listen back to the original recording you can see why Boris considers him such a role model
Lotus got their first Formula 1 win in Cornwall
What circuit was that?
Argghhh!!!! Always worth being fairly sceptical of interwebs facts....
Dave Peacock was an awesome session bass player as well as being one half of Chas n Dave. He played bass on I Got The by Labi Siffre (one of the most underrated Britsh songwriters in history) which was sampled for My Name Is by Eminem. I Got the is one of my all time favourite songs.
Labi Siffre also wrote 'Something Inside So Strong' and 'It Must Be Love' amongst many other great tunes.
Dave Peacock was an awesome session bass player as well as being one half of Chas n Dave. He played bass
Both Chas and Dave are on the "I got the' - Dave Peacock on bass and Chas Hodges on Guitar. But you can only hear Dave on the bit sampled on 'My Name is'.
I stand (half) corrected. It was indeed Dave, not Chas.
Still a great fact though.
Dave Peacock was an awesome session bass player as well as being one half of Chas n Dave
I mean yes but to be fair they were both stonking session musicians
When they heard him speaking Hungarian they thought he was just gibbering so sent him to an asylum.
I find that rather hard to believe, because Hungary was part of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, the country is bundled right in the middle of Romania, Ukraine, Slovakia, Belarus, Poland and Serbia, and nobody recognised the blokes language? Admittedly, Hungarian is an unusual language, along with Finnish they’re the only two European languages with no roots or connections to any other known languages, AFAIK., but with Hungary becoming a Communist vassal state of the USSR, it seems more a political motivated imprisonment than any supposed language barrier.
Talking of 'interesting facts' and people who like to quote them... when people impersonate Micheal Caine they often use the catch phrase 'Not many people know that' - but when they do they're actually impersonating Peter Seller's answer phone.
"I called Peter one day, he wasn't in. And there was me saying, 'My name is Michael Caine. I just want you to know that Peter Sellers is not in. Not many people know that.' He invented that 'not many people know that.' And then everybody who rang him, they got me saying, 'Not many people know that.'"
I have more than the UK average number of legs but less that the UK average number of ankles whislt still having two healthy feet
I have referred to this before on here but it is interesting. Bill Clinton was elected as President of the USA nearly 30 years ago, he was born in the same year as the last two Republican Presidents (Trump and Bush Jr) and the present President is older that all of them.
...when they do they’re actually impersonating Peter Seller’s answer phone.
Not many people know that.
The tunnel king aka Illya Kuryakin aka David Mcallums' instrumental piece The Edge has been sampled by Dr Dre, sampled doesn't really do justice to how much it is part of the song.
As tunneller he starred alongside singer John Leyton whose hit Johnny Remember me included backing tracks featuring...
David McCallum’s dad suggested to Jimmy Page that he try using a violin bow on his guitar.
"Lotus got their first Formula 1 win in Cornwall"
"What circuit was that"
Davidstow (former WW2 airfield).
(Can't do forum quotes as it vomits HTML code everywhere whenever I try on my phone 🙄 )
One of my favourite facts is that Churchill’s famous “we will fight them on the beaches” speech was only recorded after the war had finished, and was only heard in parliament at the time.
The unbroadcast end to it as he sat down again was "and we shall fight them with the butt-end of broken bottles because that's all we've bloody well got"
Wayne Hemingway and I did the same degree at the same Uni ... a couple of decades apart.
The Chas & Dave but not Chas 'fact' was on the last Horne Section Podcast episode 🙂
@maccruiskeen - so who came up with "I do not like women with big 'ands!" then?
Bananas are radioactive
Cat litter is radioactive
Cat litter is radioactive
Isn't practically everything living or mineral somewhat radioactive?
How could you spend 55 years in Russia and not pick up a bit of the lingo?!
On car fuel gauges, there is an arrow that indicates which side of the car the filler cap is on.
Do they have similar on electric cars?
The Goosefoot barnacle is no-named because it looks like a goose's feet. The Barnacle Goose is so-named because it's feet look like barnacles.
The Pope is not Catholic
along with Finnish they’re the only two European languages with no roots or connections to any other known language
Apart from Basque. which was probably being spoken before the rise of the family of Indo-European languages.
In our solar system, just 0.2% of the total mass isn't the sun.
In our solar system, just 0.2% of the total mass isn’t the sun.
And more the 50% of the 0.2% left is Jupiter
The Barnacle Goose is so-named because it’s feet look like barnacles.
So here's a thing. I've always been lead to believe that they're called that, because it was thought they hatched from barnacles
How could you spend 55 years in Russia and not pick up a bit of the lingo?!
I suspect that, as is often the case, the truth here is somewhere in the middle. Perhaps he had very poor quality speech, perhaps an impediment, perhaps he had some learning difficulties or behavioural issues. Perhaps he thought he was still an active POW and was trying to deceive. Whatever the reason, you are right that is probably wasn't as simple as the original story led you to believe.
So here’s a thing. I’ve always been lead to believe that they’re called that, because it was thought they hatched from barnacles
TBF, it's a 'fact' I learned from a fella in a pub, but he was quite into his nature stuff so I took him at his word.