Fun, fascinating or pointless trivia

[lemoneye]

The piece of music called Ave Satani NEVER featured in the Old Spice ads or in Only Fools and Horses or indeed Carmen Buranda (or similar spelling/pronunciation - please correct me), but was a large feature of the soundtrack to the film The Omen.

 

[Cherry_Ripe]

The lifespan of a tastebud is ten days

[smurfboy]

As the crow flies, John O'Groats is closer to Oslo than to London.

[Forth Bridges]

100 people a year chock to death on pen liads:

Donald duck comice wer banaed in Finlad because he had No pants !

4  peopel dIed form radom falling vendine machine:

[goldencup]

The piece of music called Ave Satani NEVER featured in the Old Spice ads or in Only Fools and Horses or indeed Carmen Buranda (or similar spelling/pronunciation - please correct me), but was a large feature of the soundtrack to the film The Omen.

 

If you mean Carmina Burana it definitely featured in the Old Spice ads and Only Fools and Horses as well as the Omen.  It was the section called Oh Fortuna and I've performed it many times.  (More pointless trivia I know!)

[lemoneye]

The piece of music called Ave Satani NEVER featured in the Old Spice ads or in Only Fools and Horses or indeed Carmen Buranda (or similar spelling/pronunciation - please correct me), but was a large feature of the soundtrack to the film The Omen.

 

If you mean Carmina Burana it definitely featured in the Old Spice ads and Only Fools and Horses as well as the Omen.  It was the section called Oh Fortuna and I've performed it many times.  (More pointless trivia I know!)

 

That is what i meant - thank you - it did NOT feature in any of the four Omen films.

[oldspice]

The music was composed by Carl Orf (not sure about spelling) 

[goldencup]

Orff.  I see now Lemoneye - that makes more sense.  Not having seen the Omen films, I didn't know about that bit.

[StrollingMinstrel]

On average, an adult laughs about 15 times a day; a child laughs 400 times.

I guess that proves it. Growing older sucks!

[wjp666]

condtradicting contrary belief, the Earth is not millions of years old, but only 70! it was knocked up in a couple of hours in the 1930's by a small group of construction workers from Kent. history was later created to avoud embarrassment.

[loulou]

So where have all the old people come from?

[wjp666]

paper-mache. (look closer and you can see the newspaper)

[goldencup]

[loulou]

  

[Forth Bridges]

• Polar bears are left-handed.
  
• August 8th begins 'National Pickle Week.'
  
• Most toliets flush in the key of E flat.
  
• Most car horns are in the key of F.
  
• Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
  
• Howdy-Doody had 48 freckles.
  
• 400 quarter-pounders can be made from 1 cow.
  
• Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a bellybutton.
  
• A full moon in nine times brighter than a half moon.s.
• All porcupines float in water.
  
  Armadillos are the only animals besides humans that can get
  leprosy.
  
  Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks
  otherwise it will digest itself.
  
  Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
  
  A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
  
  The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a
  letter is 'uncopyrightable'.
  
  It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up.
  The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling
  out of its mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all
  of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back
  down again.
  
  If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die, they need
  gravity to swallow.
  
  A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
  
  Studies show that if a cat falls off the 7th floor of a
  building, it has about 30% less chance of surviving than a cat
  that falls off the 20th floor. It supposedly takes about eight
  floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and
  correct itself.
  
  Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the
  Australian coat of arms for that reason.
  
  The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin World War II
  killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
  
  Norvelle Rogers is the real name of 'Shaggy' in Scooby Doo.
  
  More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air
  crashes.
  
  Certain frogs can be frozen solid, then thawed, and survive.
  
  Cat's urine glows under UV light.
  
  An ostrich's eye is bigger that its brain.
  
  Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
  
  Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the
  child reaches 2-6 years of age.
  
  In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
  
  Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
  
  A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
  
  The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
  
  A whale's penis is called a dork.
  
  If a statue in a park is of a person on a horse that has both
  front legs in the air, then the person died in battle. If the
  horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result
  of wounds received in battle; the horse has all four legs on the
  ground, the person died of natural causes.
  
  No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange,
  silver and purple.
  
  The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
  
  Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson".
  
  In "Casablanca", Humphrey Bogart never said, "Play it again,
  Sam".
  
  The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
  
  A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
  
  The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its
  own weight and always falls over on its right side when
  intoxicated.
  
  A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it
  starves to death.
  
  Starfishes have no brains.
  
  Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

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