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.
As the highbrow is covered, allow me to redress the balance. The first person ever to use an ATM was Reg Varney from Off the Buses.
'Jacques Cazotte was a French author, occultist, and frequent guest at that great institution of 18th-century France: the salon. At one such dinner party in Paris in 1788, he shocked the guests by predicting that King Louis XVI would be executed in the coming revolution, as well as many aristocrats, including some present there that very evening.
In May 1789, the French Revolution began, and many nobles lost their heads, as Cazotte had predicted. It was a few years later, in January 1793, that his darkest prophecy came to fruition – when King Louis XIV was guillotined in front of a huge crowd in the centre of Paris.'
Yes, he was brilliant. He was lucky too. He was seen as eccentric, but born a coue of centuries earlier he would have been burnt as a heretic for writing what he did. He myth has a lot of similarities with Gnosticism.
Amazing! I would love to work in biology.
I rode that particular train as far as it would go, 34 years as a research biologist.
The human body and life is so fascinating! I was studying it for a time but couldn't pursue because of anxiety and asd.
Several of the steam locomotive wheel arrangements are named after oceans or other large bodies of water. Eg:
4-6-2 = Pacific
4-4-2 = Atlantic
4-6-4 = Baltic
But then oddly
2-6-2 = Prairie
Emma x
Or next time
He was an awesome singer and performer but he faced a lot of hardship in his life. Cool fact though! Thanks for sharing.
Surely, that fact would have been better saved for a Tuesday?......or Thursday?
One of the best facts ever corroborated!
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/
Always a reliable source
New fact: The Michael Jackson pepsi incident (his hair caught fire) was the exact midpoint of his life to the very day. I just found this out via a YouTube video by Bobby Fingers who cites Various Reddit threads as his source.
Well played. As deft a segue as I’ve ever seen
Your coments do tickle me. I like how our funny bone is called the humerus.
Same. Being offered the opportunity of "anything goes" normally (for me) means "nothing happens"!
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’
We are both partially correct
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