Fun, fascinating or pointless trivia

[oldspice]

John Major's family were once circus people.

[smurfboy]

John Major still was from 1990 - 1997!

[oldspice]

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[Cherry_Ripe]

Coca Cola was originally green

[lemoneye]

Michael Foot, Neil Kinnock, etc etc etc  - also clowns of some reputation...

[Cherry_Ripe]

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

[smurfboy]

The Midlands town of Halesowen was in three different counties at different points in the 20th Century.

[chocolate chick]

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

I like facts like this

[Cherry_Ripe]

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds

[chocolate chick]

[smurfboy]

Eaing raw celery burns more calories from chewing than you consume by eating it.

[Cherry_Ripe]

If Barbie were lifesize her measurements would be 39-23-33

[smurfboy]

Hattie McDaniel was not only the first black person to win an Oscar -for her role as Mammy in Gone With the Wind - but also the first blakc person to attend the ceremony as a guest and not a servant. Despite this, she was still refused an invitation to a premiere for the film in America's deep South, and was refused burial in the Hollywood forever cemetry when she died in 1952.

[Cherry_Ripe]

If you divide the Great Pyramid's perimeter by twice its height you get pi to the fifteenth digit.

[smurfboy]

ET never said 'ET phone home' - he said 'ET home phone'. The line 'play it again Sam' does not feature in 'Casablanca'. Victor Meldrew didn't say 'I don't belieeeve it!' until the final episode of the first series of 'One Foot in the Grave'.