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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!