What interesting fact have you just discovered recently?

[Bbbananas]

I always imagined 'Itchycoo Park' (as in Small Faces' song) to be in America somewhere. And had a lot to do with drug taking.

In fact - it is a place in Ilford - rumoured to be so-called because of (a) it being full of stinging nettles & you keep itching (!) or (b) full of hairy seeds from the rosehip which children in the 50's called "itchycoos" & dropped down each others shirt backs!

Now - not a long of people know that. And I for one found that very interesting. Anyone else?

[Gormless]

What did you do there?

[Robinia]

that's very interesting

I've just discovered that you can still buy candlewick bedspreads..... :o)

[4getmenot]

I learnt today why angels are put on top of the xmas tree

[GetOverIt]

Not a fact, but something I totally missed.

The latest Futurama DVD is called Bender's Game.

I read about it months ago, ordered it, watched it, and its only now that I've realised its a play on the novel " Ender's Game " by Orson Scott Card.

[Gormless]

Google reads and caches the entire internet (estimated) 10 times each day.

[Bbbananas]

I had an inkling it would not be of interest to many others
:-)

What did I do there Gormless? Well of course, I got high...

[christine847]

i got high !

[4getmenot]

When four of Santa's elves got sick, the trainee elves did not produce toys as fast as the regular ones, and Santa began to feel the Pre-Christmas pressure.

Then Mrs Claus told Santa her Mother was coming to visit, which stressed Santa even more.

When he went to harness the reindeer, he found that three of them were about to give birth and two others had jumped the fence and were out, Heaven knows where.

Then when he began to load the sleigh, one of the floorboards cracked, the toy bag fell to the ground and all the toys were scattered.

Frustrated, Santa went in the house for a cup of apple cider and a shot of rum.



When he went to the cupboard, he discovered the elves had drank all the cider and hidden the liquor. In his frustration, he accidentally dropped the cider jug, and it broke into hundreds of little glass pieces all over the kitchen floor.



He went to get the broom and found the mice had eaten all the straw off the end of the broom.

Just then the doorbell rang, and irritated Santa marched to the door, yanked it open, and there stood a little angel with a great big Christmas tree.


The angel said very cheerfully, 'Merry Christmas, Santa. Isn't this a lovely day? I have a beautiful tree for you. Where would you like me to stick it?'

[Gourmander]

If it's a girl angel, I know why.

[christine847]

snap! salla

[Bbbananas]

Christine, it's all too beautiful !!

[Bbbananas]

well, if I'm asked nicely, I will turn over....

[pusspuss]

christine beat me to it but i touched the sky

[Lakitu]

Louis Walsh is gay, not interesting but a fact I didn't know until the other day LOL.

[4getmenot]

oh my lord lakitu

[Lakitu]

LOL, apparently it was widely known, I was surprised when I read the thread the other day

[Bbbananas]

I didn't know about louis walsh either Lakitu, until a few months ago.

[andy-hughes]

I have discovered that male whales 'sing' to attract a mate.

Nothing so unusual in that, except that they all sing the same song, and as the mating season progresses, one whale will slightly change the song, and all the ohter male whales will learn the new version until, by the end of the mating season, the song will bear no resemblence whatsoever to the song they started out with, but they will all still be singing the same song at the end, just as they were at the beginning.

[LoftyLottie]

Lakitu, like you I only discovered about Louis Walsh two days ago!!!

Actually because he is just so totally uninteresting and 'sexless', I hadn't even thought about his sexuality before.