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By (user no longer on site) OP 37 weeks ago
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The song Happy Birthday was created by the Hill Sisters in 1893 as a way to entertain their kindergarten students.
The rights for it are now owned by Warner and earns £3k a day and in total £30m in royalties since its creation
What’s your interesting fact, more obscure the better |
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"The song Happy Birthday was created by the Hill Sisters in 1893 as a way to entertain their kindergarten students.
The rights for it are now owned by Warner and earns £3k a day and in total £30m in royalties since its creation
What’s your interesting fact, more obscure the better "
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Warner Chappell no longer own the rights; all copyrights have expired and the 'song' has been in the public domain since 2017. |
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Men at Work`s biggest hit, Down Under, got them in trouble when someone pointed out it sounded like "Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gumtree", they were taken to court and initially lost all their royalties to a bunch of nuns in the middle of fuck knows where in Australian outback - they did appeal and got some of it back...
That`s bloody useless info! |
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By *lowupdollTV/TS 37 weeks ago
Herts/Beds/Leeds/London |
Water might not be wet. This is because most scientists define wetness as a liquid’s ability to maintain contact with a solid surface, meaning that water itself is not wet, but can make other objects wet.
Is that interesting? |
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By (user no longer on site) OP 37 weeks ago
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"Water might not be wet. This is because most scientists define wetness as a liquid’s ability to maintain contact with a solid surface, meaning that water itself is not wet, but can make other objects wet.
Is that interesting? "
Confusing for my small brain 🧠 |
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There was a roman emperor that was one of first now classed as trans people .. he used to sneak out to docks dressed a woman and enjoy the delights of men ..
he didn't last long 4 years .. Emperor Elagabalus |
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The highest village in Spain has a population of approx 800 but about 50 percent of the houses and apartment blocks are just a facade.
They are actually huge warehouses for storing and curing ham. (Jamon) |
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By (user no longer on site) 37 weeks ago
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"Wolverhampton was the first town in the UK to have automatic traffic lights. They were on the junction of Princess Street and Lichfield Street in 1927
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Ooh now I didn't know that one, will steal it 🤣 |
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By *irthandgirthMan 37 weeks ago
Camberley occasionally doncaster |
Lesotho is the 'highest' country in the world. All of it is above 5000' from sea level.
While Mt Everest is the highest point above sea level, Mt Chimborazo in Ecuador is the furthest point from the centre of the earth. |
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"Wolverhampton was the first town in the UK to have automatic traffic lights. They were on the junction of Princess Street and Lichfield Street in 1927
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Mosley Street in Newcastle was the first in the world to have electric streetlights in 1879. |
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"The song Happy Birthday was created by the Hill Sisters in 1893 as a way to entertain their kindergarten students.
The rights for it are now owned by Warner and earns £3k a day and in total £30m in royalties since its creation
What’s your interesting fact, more obscure the better "
It's a terrible song really hard to sing well so just ends up as a while lot of caterwauling |
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If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have
produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
(Hardly seems worth it.)
If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is
produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
(Now that's more like it!)
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the
body to squirt blood 30 feet.
(O.M.G.!)
A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.
(In my next life, I want to be a pig.)
A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves
to death. (Creepy.)
(I'm still not over the pig.)
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour
(Don't try this at home, maybe at work)
The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached
to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
(Honey, I'm home. What the...??)
The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human
jumping the length of a football field.
(30 minutes... Lucky pig! Can you imagine?) |
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THE NAMES OF THINGS
YOU PROBABLY DIDN'T KNOW
1. The space between your eyebrows is called a glabella.
2. The way it smells after it rains is called petrichor.
3. The plastic or metallic coating at the end of your shoelaces is called an aglet.
4. When your stomach rumbles, that's a wamble.
5. The cry of a new born baby is called a vagitus.
6. The prongs of a fork are called tines.
7. The sheen of light that you see when you close your eyes and press your hands on them is called phosphenes.
8. The tiny plastic thing placed in the middle of a pizza box is called a box tent.
9. The day after tomorrow is called overmorrow.
10. Your little toe or finger is called the minimus.
11. The wired cage that holds the cork on a bottle of champagne is called an agraffe.
12. The 'na na na' and 'la la la', which don't really have any meaning in the lyrics of any song, are called vocables.
13. When you combine a question mark with an exclamation mark (?!), it is referred to as an interrobang.
14. The space between your nostrils is called columella nasi.
15. The armhole in clothes, where the sleeves are sewn, is called armscye.
16. Finding it difficult to get out of bed in the morning is called dysania.
17. Illegible handwriting is called griffonage.
18. The dot over an "i" or a "j" is called tittle.
19. That sick feeling you get after eating or drinking too much is called crapulence.
20. The metal thing used to measure your feet at the shoe store is called Bannock device. |
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A study has revealed that the kind of face that a woman finds attractive on a man can differ depending on where she is in her menstual cycle. For example, if she is ovulating she is attracted to men with rugged and masculine features. However, if she is menstruating or menopausal she tends to be attracted to a man with duct tape over his mouth and a spear lodged in his chest while on fire. No further studies are expected on this subject. |
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"THE NAMES OF THINGS
YOU PROBABLY DIDN'T KNOW
19. That sick feeling you get after eating or drinking too much is called crapulence."
And the feeling of relief you get two hours later is called crapuself |
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By *irthandgirthMan 37 weeks ago
Camberley occasionally doncaster |
"Glass is a liquid. Given long enough, a window will flow to the ground and make a glass puddle."
Through geological modelling, the himalayas actually act like 'really slow' treacle in the way they push up, and slide make. |
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"Glass is a liquid. Given long enough, a window will flow to the ground and make a glass puddle."
That would take hundreds of years, it's the silicone in glass that makes it droop over time. You can see it on some really old windows |
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By *lueeye2Couple 37 weeks ago
Liverpool |
The phrase shit comes from when they used to transport manure on ships and methane gas would build up in the cargo holds and cause issues so they started to write on the containers Store High In Transit |
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"The phrase shit comes from when they used to transport manure on ships and methane gas would build up in the cargo holds and cause issues so they started to write on the containers Store High In Transit "
What was it called in the years before it was first transported on ships ? |
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By *batMan 37 weeks ago
Alicante, Spain. (Sometimes in Wales) |
"There's no word in the English language that rhymes with orange.
There is a mountain in Wales called Blorenge
That's a made up word  "
ALL words are made up.
Gbat |
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In the middle ages, in Flanders, Ghent (now Belgium) there was an actual profession of urine collector. The urine was used to extract ammonia which was used to make saltpeter, one of the ingredients of gunpowder. Every morning the collectors went round town with barrels collecting urine and paying money for it.
Naturally, certain people tried to cheat them by diluting it, so a new profession arose, that of the urine taster. They organoleptically determined the purity and quality of the valuable ammonia. But with the coming of the industrial age people learned to synthesise ammonia, or extract it from other sources, so the profession of urine taster became unnecessary. So all those urine tasters left flanders, moved to Amsterdam and founded the Heineken brewery. |
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By *batMan 36 weeks ago
Alicante, Spain. (Sometimes in Wales) |
"Will this is my time to shine!
Giraffes are 30 times more likely to get hit by lightning than people"
Surely that's when the giraffes are shining rather than you???
Gbat |
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"The song Happy Birthday was created by the Hill Sisters in 1893 as a way to entertain their kindergarten students.
The rights for it are now owned by Warner and earns £3k a day and in total £30m in royalties since its creation
What’s your interesting fact, more obscure the better
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Warner Chappell no longer own the rights; all copyrights have expired and the 'song' has been in the public domain since 2017."
I think it was also there was case that showed the Hill sister didn't write it anyway. |
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By *hief ScoutMan 36 weeks ago
Wild Border Country of Herts & Middx ! |
There was a 3rd/4th Place Play Off in the F.A. Cup for losing semi-finalists each year from 1970 to 1974. (And you thought the Nations League was a waste of time !)
Jimmy Greenhoff is the only player with the "full set". Winner with Manchester United in 1977, runner-up 1979, and while with Stoke lost semi-finals in 1971 & 1972. They won the play off v. Everton in 1971, but lost to Birmingham in 1972. (In fact the Birmingham game in 1972 was also the first F.A. Cup tie settled by a penalty shoot out). The players in the 3rd/4th Place matches received tankards. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP 35 weeks ago
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"Only three countries in the world officially don’t use the metric system
Liberia
Myanmar
USA
Why do we still sell beer in pints and measure distance in miles ?"
It’s more to do with the 7 SI measurements I believe |
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