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11/11/2023
Arches, interestingly…
17/04/2023
135 years ago today, The Football League was formed, with 12 founder clubs. This is how the first season played out, interestingly…
A moment is 90 seconds whereas an instant is 60. A trice is 3 seconds whilst a jiffy is one-fiftieth of a second.
A fart travels about eight inches per minute.
13/12/2021
UK TV ratings (in millions) from December 1976, interestingly…
04/06/2021
Today is National Fish and Chips Day!
Fish and chips was the only food not to be rationed during WWII.
Churchill said that do so would damage the moral of the British people.
The first native English speaker to teach English in Japan was named Ranald McDonald.
Cork is now the second biggest English speaking city in the EU
Due to an embarrassing set of initials, in 2009 Wisconsin Tourism Federation gave up and changed its name to Tourism Federation of Wisconsin.
Word of the Day: SCURRYFUNGE - to panic clean just before a guest arrives.
25/12/2020
Cary Grant and Clark Gable met once a year to exchange unwanted monogrammed Christmas gifts.
In Japan, "It's a Wonderful Life" was released as "Su***de Man Can't Commit."
Rock band Van Halen would demand that all of the brown M&Ms be removed from the packets that were included in their backstage requests. They did this, not because they could, but to make sure the promoter had read the contract correctly.
The first bovine to take flight was ‘Elm Farm Ollie’, a Guernsey cow. The flight took place on 18th February and took her from Bismarck, Missouri to St. Louis. During the journey, she was milked, and paper cartons of her milk parachuted to spectators below.