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Lucy Davis (who played Dawn in The Office) is Jasper Carrott's daughter!
What did you not know?
And they've both been in The Archers.Lucy was Hayley Tucker and Jasper is currently Sykesy.
That Thomas Edison invented the electric chair and tested it on an elephant (it was a very naughty elephant and was convicted after a fair trial, in case you're worried.)
New Mexico is older than Mexico, the country.
Gary Oldman is younger than Gary Newman.
If you add up all the integers from 1 to infinity (ie 1+2+3+4+5+........infinity) the answer is -1/12
I didn't know that (because neither are true!) Common urban myths though. Source: listened to a podcast on the history of the electric chair the other day 😃. It was invented by somebody else but merely refined by Edison's company (Edison Electric) on request of the government. The elephant incident was years later and nothing to do with it, rather a stunt to try to prove that AC equipment was more dangerous than the DC equipment his company was promoting. (I believe they did test the chair on farm animals including a horse though!)That Thomas Edison invented the electric chair and tested it on an elephant (it was a very naughty elephant and was convicted after a fair trial, in case you’re worried.)
I didn't know that Sting sings backing vocals on Money for Nothing until a mate of mine told me a couple of years back. I mentioned it to my girlfriend on Sunday as the song came on the radio whilst we were having breakfast. She didn't know either! It's totally obvious when you hear it but I never twigged before I was told.
Queen Elizabeth I's spy master used to sign his messages as 007.
I didn’t know that Sting sings backing vocals on Money for Nothing
Segue via Dire Straights to Mark Knopfler. How many knew he used to play in the band "Brewer's Droop"?
And they’ve both been in The Archers.
Brian Aldridge who plays Charles Collingwood in the Archers was the voice of Wordy in Words & Pictures.
I heard an anecdote on the radio from him a few years back, he'd got lucky and his partner only realised who he was after the deed. She exclaimed "oh my god, I've just shagged Wordy!"
barn owls cannot digest bones but little owls can.
The most common owl in the UK is the Teat Owl.
Georgia Tennant is the wife and daughter of 2 Doctors, of Doctor Who fame.
I didn’t know that Sting sings backing vocals on Money for Nothing
Mind
Blown
Queen Elizabeth I’s spy master used to sign his messages as 007.
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/the-original-007#:~:text=Born%20in%201527%2C%20John%20Dee,Bon d's%20three%2Ddigit%20code%20number.
Or perhaps he wasn't and perhaps he didn't. 🤣
Tawny owls do not reproduce in rainy weather, they rely on their mating calls to attract mates and rainy weather drowns their calls out - in dry weather the calls can be heard over 120 hectares but in rainy weather that is reduced to less than 2 hectares; consequently they save their energy and there is as little as 5% of the courting activity.
James Earl Jones and Carrie Fisher first met in 2014 when they geust starred on the Big Bang Theory
Teat Owl.
Only lactating bird species as well…
That I had a safe buried in my lounge wall. Stripping wallpaper uncovered it.
If you add up all the integers from 1 to infinity (ie 1+2+3+4+5+……..infinity) the answer is -1/12
only IF you assume it's a convergent series which it's not.
That I had a safe buried in my lounge wall. Stripping wallpaper uncovered it.
But do you know what's in it?
Ah now you younguns are finally finding out about us oldies music e.g Sting singing on the Money for nothing track and Kate Bush is one of the all time greatest singer, songwriters ever.
Oh and birds don't wee (I did know, but many don't).
That I had a safe buried in my lounge wall. Stripping wallpaper uncovered it.
But do you know what’s in it?
My old office had a safe in the wall with a key in the lock but it wouldn't open. One day I decided to take some tools and WD40 in and try to open it. Eventually, I managed to open it and found...
Another key! I never found out what that key opened though 🙁
But do you know what’s in it?
No, it's locked ☹️ I'll remove it from the wall and get it open at some point over the coming weeks.
Australia is wider than the moon.
Also, Europe could fit inside Australia.
There is only one type of bee that produces milk.
Karl Marx was brought up as a Christian
Europe could fit inside Australia.
If you cut some big bits of Europe off 🙂 Australia is surprisingly big, though.
Freddie Engels lived on Dover St, Manchester (with two women, the dog).
What did you not know?
I didn't know that you didn't know that
<p style="text-align: left;">James Joyce, one of the most brilliant figures of C20 literature lived with and married Nora Barnacle who was illiterate.</p>
Carl Linnaeus classified all the mythical creatures into Animalia Paradoxa
ie Monoceros, and Manticoria.
Mind you; he also classified all the humans based on their skin colour, so y'know, he wasn't all that.
My old office had a safe in the wall with a key in the lock but it wouldn’t open. One day I decided to take some tools and WD40 in and try to open it. Eventually, I managed to open it and found…
Another key! I never found out what that key opened though 🙁
Do you like in an escape room?
I learnt something new the other day.... But I've forgotten what it was.
Hoping to learn something new again soon.
That Thomas Edison invented the electric chair and tested it on an elephant (it was a very naughty elephant and was convicted after a fair trial, in case you’re worried.)
To be honest I'm more impressed that he managed to train an elephant to sit in a chair.
Didn’t the fact that the part he sings is to the melody of “Don’t Stand So Close To Me” not give any hints?
I knew it was him, but never noticed that! So obviously referencing that song now you say it. Doh!
The longer version of this off the 12" still sounds great, and it's more obviously the tantric one singing.
Birds breathe differently to other animals. Their lungs are 1 way tubes with sacs around their body that inflate and deflate to constantly push air through them. Like bagpipes.
I did not know that Sting singing on MFN wasn't common knowledge.
There is only one type of bee that produces milk.
Yes. That would be Boo Bees.
Do you like in an escape room?
Yeah it was a bit. The building was an old schoolhouse that had lain empty for several years – I had a look around to see if I could find something to fit the key into but wasn't successful 🙁
Didn’t the fact that the part he sings is to the melody of “Don’t Stand So Close To Me” not give any hints?
And, y'know, his pretty singular sounding singing voice. I thought it was common knowledge.
I had no idea it was Sting on MFN either, but yeah, obvious now I know.
Can I just interrupt this fantastic stream of unknown knowledge, just a moment for clarity, but what is the time frame for this; how long are we allowed from when the unknown transitioned to the known? Are we to refrain from deliberately instigating this transition of unknown knowledge to known knowledge just for the sake of adding a reply to this thread?
Couldn't care less about Sting btw!
^ I don't know
My dog can look up.
It's either that or he is annoyed by that sounds of aeroplanes he can't see, which is why he barks.
"Lucy Davis (who played Dawn in The Office) is Jasper Carrott’s daughter!"
I did know that, only because she was once married to someone who's family are friends of some of my relatives who got to go to her wedding. They got married in St. Paul's Catherdal, a venue they could only have because Jasper has an OBE.
Surely if you’re typing it here then you must know that, whatever that may be 🤯
I recently discovered that Cheryl Baker (of getting her skirt ripped off fame) was born Rita Crudgington.
Sharks drown if they aren't swimming or asleep on a suitably shallow seabed.
The baseline from Saturday Night by Whigfield is lifted from Spanish Bombs by The Clash.
Owls ears are at different heights so they can pinpoint noises.
The 'S' in Harry S. Truman doesn’t stand for anything.
His parents put it in as a single letter to appease some of his grandparents.
Since this thread is already owl-heavy, I only recently discovered that the "twit" and the "terwoo" are two different owls engaged in a love ballad*.
*This could just as likely be the equivalent of "Alright darlin" - "Clear off, loser", I don't know, I don't speak owl.
I did not know I accidentally ticked notify me of follow up replies when I hit submit.
Lisa Stansfield (of late 80s pop fame) is allergic to her own saliva.
The same guy that pioneered curing the problem of knocking petrol engines by using tetraethyl lead also pioneered the use of CFCs as refridgerants - Thomas Midgeley.
He was a brilliant chemist, but unfortunately had an uncanny knack of inventing things that had unforeseen long-term consequences.
Also - carbon dating will never be available for living things that have been alive during the last 70-odd years as the amount of carbon-14 in the world was increased by orders of magnitude by atmospheric nuclear testing in the 1940s-1960s.
The ‘S’ in Harry S. Truman doesn’t stand for anything.
What about the 'J' in Homer J. Simpson?
Jeebus
snip...as the amount of carbon-14 in the world was increased by orders of magnitude by atmospheric nuclear testing in the 1940s-1960s.
Which is why certain companies are raiding sunken WW2 warships for the steel to use in scientific instruments. You're desecrating wrecks considered by many to be graves 😞
Sharks drown if they aren’t swimming or asleep on a suitably shallow seabed.
Some do, I don't think ALL do.
What about the ‘J’ in Homer J. Simpson?
It's Jay.
Some do, I don’t think ALL do.
It's a matter of degrees, but if the sea is deep enough it would be true for all.
Sharks and rays are elasmobranchs - they do not have a swim bladder, so they are reliant on the lift from their fins, which is dependent on forward motion. There are deep water sharks, but they would still drown if they stopped swimming and dropped into the Marianas Trench.
Bony fish can set their swim bladder to maintain their height in the water, independent of any motion.
Another Dire Straits related fact I was unaware of... Mark Knopfler wrote the Tina Turner hit, Private Dancer.
It’s a matter of degrees, but if the sea is deep enough it would be true for all.
Sharks and rays are elasmobranchs – they do not have a swim bladder, so they are reliant on the lift from their fins, which is dependent on forward motion. There are deep water sharks, but they would still drown if they stopped swimming and dropped into the Marianas Trench.
Bony fish can set their swim bladder to maintain their height in the water, independent of any motion.
I'm prepared to be corrected on this, but I'm not sure that's right, either - sharks drowning isn't related to water depth, I don't think. Some can use a muscular action to move water over their gills whether stationary or not - others cannot, and need to keep moving in order to breathe.
Sharks are pretty well adapted to very deep water as they're non-compressable - I can imagine that persuading one, able to breathe without swimming, not to swim long enough to sink to the bottom of the Marianus Trench would result in an unhappy shark, but I don't think it would drown.
Will someone please read my owl fact on p1 and recognise the considerable effort some real university experts went to in creating a shit pun!!
I know that these unknown(to some) facts are fascinating, but can we please address the important issue on this thread -->>
But do you know what’s in it?
No, it’s locked ☹️ I’ll remove it from the wall and get it open at some point over the coming weeks.
dooosuk needs to get a seperate thread ( with updates) started straight away 😆 😆 👍
Eslon Tusk was the first person to invent the elastic car
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I didn’t know that Sting sings backing vocals on Money for Nothing until a mate of mine told me a couple of years back. I mentioned it to my girlfriend on Sunday as the song came on the radio whilst we were having breakfast. She didn’t know either! It’s totally obvious when you hear it but I never twigged before I was told.
One of those things I always knew - probably because at the time it was always mentioned whenever the song was played. I happened to see DS on the Money for Nothing tour at Wembley Arena when Sting himself came out on stage to join them for that song. The second bonus of that gig. The first bonus was that we got cheap tickets as the seller thought our view was going to be obstructed by the PA speakers. Speakers were in a different place and we ended up with an awesome view. 🙂
Soda bread was created as an homage to the Cotic Soda
I have just learned (thanks to PopMaster TV) that Rita Ora married Taiki Waititi in 2022. I did not (prior to watching the show) know that
Soda bread was created as an homage to the Cotic Soda
Surely that's just the logical extension of Soul food?
Joe Cocker’s dead
His dead what?
His dead what?
His dead good
Joe Cocker’s dead
Nah, you're thinking of Ken Dodd's dad's dog.
If you add the letter L to the proper noun Facebook you've got a shitty anagram.
More Mark Knopfler facts: his band once formed a supergroup with Chris Rea.