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Interesting trivia thread

Duck n Dive

Rebel without a clue ...
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Bacon, beer, garlic and oyster flavour ice creams are all available commercially.

Margaret Thatcher was an industrial chemist before being a full time politician.
She was involved in the development improvements in whippy ice cream in the UK.

:)
 

Malone

Been there, and had one
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The LPGA golf tour has a player Jeungeon Lee6

she’s called Lee6 because there have been 5 previous players all called Jeungeon Lee
 

andyBeaker

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The National Trust bought its first property to be saved in 1890 when they bought Alfriston Clergy for £10.

It happens to be just up the road from me.
 

ogr1

I can still see ya.....
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Seagulls have only a few taste buds compared to humans i.e. 9 to10,000.
So the next time they're robbing your
kids chips at the seaside.
Shat in a bag and offer it to the greedy gulls, see if they like those feckin apples.
 

andyBeaker

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Having tried and failed to design interrupter gear to allow machine guns to fire forward through the propellor of his aircraft, French World War 1 pilot Roland Garros (yes, him) installed deflector plates on his aircraft’s propellor
that allowed a forward firing machine gun to be successfully used in combat. In his first mission he shot down five unsuspecting enemy aircraft before being shot down himself by ground fire behind enemy lines. The Germans took the failed interruptor gear from his aircraft and successfully developed a working version. Within a very short period the Fokker Eindecker was developed and used in combat, decimating the Royal Flying Corp and Franch airforce in what became known as ‘The Fokker Scourge’. The French responded again in a very short period by developing the Nieuport fighter with interrupter gear that was superior to the Eindecker in every way imaginable leading to the Eindecker being withdrawn from service and being replaced by the Albatros.

The arms race was alive and kicking during WW1, with advances in aviation in particular being dramatic and rapid just a dozen years after the Wright Brother’s first powered ‘lighter than air‘ flight.
 

Minkey

Ok it was me
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The first gold, silver and bronze medals for the Olympic games was 1904 games at St Louis Missouri, up until then it had only been silver and bronze
 

DanBow

Like a leaf on the wind . . .
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You burn more calories eating a tomato than there are in a tomato.

in theory if you go on a tomato only diet you will eventually disappear.
Shame that they are food of the devil!!!
 

Malone

Been there, and had one
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Sadly, strangely, fresh strawberries more than just a couple make me ill.
 

derek kelly

The Deli lama
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Love tomatoes
Love Strawberries
Love melons,don’t think there’s any food I’m allergic to although some food dye used in Asian cooking makes me throw up.
 
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