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Interesting trivia thread
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I knew that before the telly ads
That is so not interesting trivia.
More interesting than you posting something that’s broadcast to millions of people
Well if you must know when you say ‘telly ads’ I have zero idea what you are talking about as I never, ever watch ‘telly ads’ As here in the affluent south we have ways of avoiding them.
I gieaned the interesting trivia about the fair lady from a tv programme I watched last night.
You may also be interested to know that the character Marlene was only supposed to be a very short cameo role (specifically when she and Boycie are handing their dog over to Del to look after while they go on holiday) in one episode but the producers liked her so much she became an important fixture.
Or that my late brother went out with Nuka Conwell for a while after being introduced to her by Denis Waterman. Nola played Maureen the barmaid in The Nageps,Head, better known as WPC Viv Martela in The Bill.
please feel free to post some interesting trivia if you feel the urge.
Or know any.
My Mother in law used to go out with singer Ronnie Hilton
My Father in law went to School with Peter O’Toole.
I used to deliver Billy Bremner’s evening paper.
Jack Charlton’s son (John) was too years below me at School but was in my tutorial group
We were the second family in our street to own a colour tv, the first were the Hargreaves who lived across the road (they won the pools)
Do you know if things don't change they will stay as they are!!
That's one of my dad's favourites.
Along with "back away, there's nothing in front:
Morris Marina door handles were later used on the Austin Allegro, Triumph TR7 and TR8, Lotus Esprit and Eclat, Scimitar GTE SE6 and others.
300 copies of The Bible were on board the Apollo 15 moon shot. They were in microfiche form measuring approximately 1.5cm x 1.5cm
A new record for the longest internal domestic flight was set during the pandemic; Air Tahiti Nui flew direct from Tahiti to Paris, France (near Seaford). The distance covered was 15,715 km (8,485 NM).
The longest word in major English dictionaries is 45 letters….. Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
Its a lung disease.
Its a lung disease.
Believed to be the longest word in the English language that does not appear in dictionaries comprises 189,819 letters. It takes between two to three hours to say.
There isn’t room for it here and it is generally shortened to
As if you didn’t know it is the chemical formula for the protein titan.
The full word can be found here, clearly a c****b*** site so fill your boots if you want to attract unwelcome targeted advertising and email.
www.digitalspy.com
There isn’t room for it here and it is generally shortened to
Methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylarginyl…isoleucine
As if you didn’t know it is the chemical formula for the protein titan.
The full word can be found here, clearly a c****b*** site so fill your boots if you want to attract unwelcome targeted advertising and email.
'Longest' word has 189,819 letters
'Methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylarginyl...isoleucine' is the chemical name of 'titin'.
www.digitalspy.com