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What do you have for us then...

Here's a couple to get you started.

Australia is wider than the moon.

Sting sings backing vocals on Money for Nothing

New Mexico is older than Mexico, the country
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The cheque isn’t really in the post….
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France stopped using the guillotine after man had landed on the moon
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Demannu wrote: Mon Jul 10, 2023 3:04 pm France stopped using the guillotine after man had landed on the moon
To be fair , it would have been hard to cut his head off if he was on the moon ...

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The last man to escape from the Tower of London got away by Tube.
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The great Roy Harper* sang the lead vocal on 'Have a Cigar' on Floyd's 'Wish You Were Here'.

*He of the marvellously titled album 'Come Out Fighting Ghengis Smith', That ode to England 'When an Old Cricketer Leaves the Crease' and the best line ever 'looking no cleaner than a Chinese wrestler's jockstrap, cooked in chip fat on a greasy day' on 'Nobodies Got Any Money in the Summer'.

Oh yeah, another factoid, his second wife 'ran off' with Nigel Kennedy. :wtf:
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At the 1976 at height of the males/females cheating, the only lady competitor who didn't have a sex test, was Princess Anne :)
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Sudan has more pyramids than Egypt. Fact. :D
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If you were to take all the veins and arteries out of your body and lay them end to end, you'd die.
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Ghana and Ivory Coast produce more chocolate than the rest of the world
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Le_Fromage_Grande wrote: Mon Jul 10, 2023 3:42 pm Ghana and Ivory Coast produce more chocolate than the rest of the world
Cocoa maybe - but not chocolate
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Count Steer wrote: Mon Jul 10, 2023 3:14 pm The great Roy Harper* sang the lead vocal on 'Have a Cigar' on Floyd's 'Wish You Were Here'.

*He of the marvellously titled album 'Come Out Fighting Ghengis Smith', That ode to England 'When an Old Cricketer Leaves the Crease' and the best line ever 'looking no cleaner than a Chinese wrestler's jockstrap, cooked in chip fat on a greasy day' on 'Nobodies Got Any Money in the Summer'.

Oh yeah, another factoid, his second wife 'ran off' with Nigel Kennedy. :wtf:
I saw him live years ago. He had a big beard for the first half of the show and then shaved it off in the interval. Not sure why.
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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
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weeksy wrote: Mon Jul 10, 2023 4:44 pm 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
Grover Cleveland was the only US president to server non-consecutive terms.

That will change this time if trump wins again.
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Sloths don't fart. Rats and rabbits can't puke...(which, sadly, is one of the reasons they're so useful in the lab :( but makes them excellent drinking partners :thumbup: )
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Count Steer wrote: Mon Jul 10, 2023 3:14 pm Oh yeah, another factoid, his second wife 'ran off' with Nigel Kennedy. :wtf:
Whom I had the pleasure of having dinner with in Poland about 16 years ago, then had an impromptu jam session with one of the worlds greatest musicians. He's funny as fuck with the vodka in him!
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wheelnut wrote: Mon Jul 10, 2023 5:02 pm
weeksy wrote: Mon Jul 10, 2023 4:44 pm 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
Grover Cleveland was the only US president to server non-consecutive terms.

That will change this time if trump wins again.
Wasn't he something like both the 19th and 21st Presidents? Normally if you do back to back terms they count it as one, but cause of the gap they consider him two. So the current 46th (I think?) President isn't actually the 46th person to do it.
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The smell of fresh rain when it's been dry is called Petrichor. 8-)
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Japan has a longer coastline than Australia.
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