Published on 12, July, 2020
I encourage you to reply, but not more than once a day, with a interesting new fact. Let’s stretch this out instead of dumping all the interesting facts out all at once. (Btw feel free to comment on the interesting facts as much and as often as you want)
edit: posting a source for your fact is strongly encouraged.
This is one of those infinite horizons briefs that seems to paralyse me. As soon as I can tell any fact, choose any topic, my mind empties. As though the millions of them I must have heard in my lifetime just all hid behind each other. But… to make myself get any sort of foothold I decided to impose a sub-category: popular culture. Even then, I had to say ‘not a Doctor Who fact, not this time. Come on, literally anything else.’ Again, the mind empties. But then… from somewhere… a telly fact so random that I’m confused as to why I’m even bothering has stepped from the shadows to say ‘choose me’. That fact is: Coronation Street was originally going to be called Florizel Steeet. Imagine people saying ‘I’ll phone you later, want to watch Florrie’
Your coments do tickle me. I like how our funny bone is called the humerus.
Well played. As deft a segue as I’ve ever seen
See what I mean..........too much choice to just "bang-out-a-fact" = nothing, but given even the smallest nudge, I can be absolutely full of sheet facts!
Talking of Segways......fact of the day from Number......the inventer of the Seqway (Dean Kaman) is not dead in any way, shape or form and most certainly did not die falling off a cliff whilst riding his own invention. However, it is true that the former owner of the parent company that owned the Segway (Jimi Heselden) did die in that fashion.....he was English, very rich, of humble origins, involved in "war supplies" but was evidently a bona fide philanthropist and all round good egg - from what I can discern.
https://blog.mobilboard.com/en/segway-pt-inventor-truth-die/