Author Topic: Fun, fascinating or pointless trivia (Read 5142 times)

smurfboy · « **on:** February 15, 2006, 01:22:34 pm »

A thread for all that useless but somehow interesting trivia and info you pick up. I'll start:

The TV network who ran 'I Love Lucy' wanted to cancel it when Lucille Ball became pregnant, believing it was offensive to show a pregnant woman in television. Lucy and her husband Desi Arnaz had to consult priests and rabbis to confirm their was no religious reason this could not be shown. Even when the network agreed to write the pregnancy into the show, they banned the word 'pregnant' from the scripts - Lucy had to say she was 'expecting'.

Cherry_Ripe · « **Reply #1 on:** February 15, 2006, 01:24:24 pm »

There are 2961 different varieties of felt tip.

smurfboy · « **Reply #2 on:** February 15, 2006, 01:26:44 pm »

It's impossible to die from smoking cannabis. You will already be too stoned to smoke any more before you reach that point.

Cherry_Ripe · « **Reply #3 on:** February 15, 2006, 01:41:58 pm »

In Disney's Fantasia the sorcerer's name is Yensid, which is Disney spelled backwards.

smurfboy · « **Reply #4 on:** February 15, 2006, 01:44:19 pm »

All swans are officially the property of HM The Queen.

Cherry_Ripe · « **Reply #5 on:** February 15, 2006, 01:50:57 pm »

Spinach has no more iron in it than any other vegetable.

The spinach misconception dates back to the 1950's when a food analyst made an error while calculating the iron in spinach; his decimal place was wrong by one place, suggesting that spinach had ten times as much iron content than it really did.

lorri · « **Reply #6 on:** February 15, 2006, 01:52:58 pm »

you cant lick your own elbow

( go on.... u know u want to try !!! lol)

chocolate chick · « **Reply #7 on:** February 15, 2006, 01:59:32 pm »

I can't

lorri · « **Reply #8 on:** February 15, 2006, 02:05:06 pm »

a few people can choc chick but u are in the huge majority that cant

smurfboy · « **Reply #9 on:** February 15, 2006, 02:08:34 pm »

A politician being interviewed on a 1971 children's programme said 'I don't think there will be a woman Prime Minister in my lifetime'. The politician's name was Margaret Thatcher.

chocolate chick · « **Reply #10 on:** February 15, 2006, 02:10:14 pm »

As long as I am not alone. Its a job job I am on my own today in office else they would think I was bonkers

smurfboy · « **Reply #11 on:** February 15, 2006, 02:11:33 pm »

A job job?

chocolate chick · « **Reply #12 on:** February 15, 2006, 02:13:01 pm »

Good job

oldspice · « **Reply #13 on:** February 15, 2006, 03:50:28 pm »

The word dine has a long vowel (i) but dinner has a short vowel (i).

smurfboy · « **Reply #14 on:** February 15, 2006, 04:03:59 pm »

Because Berwick-upon-Tweed was often disputed territory between England and Scotland, it was listed separately in the declaration of war in 1939. Unfortunately no one thought to list it separately in the peace treaties; therefore the town was still officially at war with Germany until well into the 1960s.

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Author Topic: Fun, fascinating or pointless trivia (Read 5142 times)