| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” 21:12 - Dec 17 with 53825 views | colinallcars |
True ones please.
Samuel Goldwyn of Metro Goldwyn Mayer films is offically named Samuel Goldfish.
When he emigrated to the US from Poland, his actual name was Schmuel Goldfisz. The immigration officail misheard it as Samuel Goldfish which he remained for some years.
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| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 19:09 - Mar 15 with 3203 views | Paddyhoops |
Cocteau twins got their name from a song from Simple minds tune which was then changed to No cure. |  | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 21:09 - Mar 15 with 3136 views | NoDiddley |
Dennis the menace is 74 years old |  | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 14:21 - Mar 16 with 2984 views | rrrspricey |
There are, give or take a few million, 400 billion stars in the Milky Way, and around 2 trillion galaxies in the observable universe...mind boggling numbers.
It takes light (at 186,000 miles per second) 200,000 years to cross the Milky Way and 2.5 million years to reach us from Andromeda, our next door neighbour galaxy-wise |  | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 19:16 - Mar 16 with 2876 views | NewBee |
Actor Sir Dirk Bogarde's full birth name was Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde.
Also had a distinguished war record, getting commisioned and rising to the rank of Major, gained a number of medals and served at D-Day. Also present at the liberation of Belsen, leading to a life-long hatred of Germans. | | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 12:38 - Apr 1 with 2457 views | GaryHaddock |
Port Vale are the only club in the Football League and Premiership to have beaten all 91 other teams at some point. |  | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 13:44 - Apr 1 with 2366 views | Monkey_Roots |
NONCE
Not On Normal Courtyard Exercise |  | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 13:49 - Apr 1 with 2354 views | Monkey_Roots |
David Tomlinson played George Banks in the film Mary Poppins.
In 1943 he married Mary Lindsay Hiddingh, daughter of L. Seton Lindsay, the vice president of the New York Life Insurance Company. She had been widowed in 1941 when her husband, Major Armand Guy Hiddingh, was killed in action, leaving her to care for their two young sons. Tomlinson married Mary in New York in September 1943, but on 2 December 1943, she killed herself and her two sons in a murder–suicide by jumping from a hotel in New York City, after learning that she could not take her two sons with her to join Tomlinson in England until WWII ended. | | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 11:09 - Apr 20 with 1901 views | CamberleyR |
Bryan Ferry and Howard Kendall played football together as kids in the Washington Grammar School football team.
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| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 11:26 - Apr 20 with 1831 views | colinallcars |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 13:44 - Apr 1 by Monkey_Roots |
NONCE
Not On Normal Courtyard Exercise |
I always assumed nonce was short for nonsuch. | | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 11:48 - Apr 20 with 1797 views | HotCurrie |
Production on the movie Troy (2004) was shut down for several weeks because the actor playing Achilles (Brad Pitt) injured his achilles. |  | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 12:10 - Apr 20 with 1777 views | elnombre |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 11:09 - Apr 20 by CamberleyR |
Bryan Ferry and Howard Kendall played football together as kids in the Washington Grammar School football team.
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I had Bryan Ferry's old room at university - 48 Old Hall.
Which I accept is a slightly more oblique claim to fame, but absolutely falls within the remit of 'not a lot of people know that'. | | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 18:05 - Apr 20 with 1606 views | NewBee |
“In 1969, [Salvador] Dali was approached to design a new Chupa Chups logo, and the result became as instantly recognisable as his melting clocks. Dali incorporated the Chupa Chups name into a brightly coloured daisy shape. Always keenly aware of branding, Dali suggested that the logo be placed on top of the lolly instead of the side so that it could always be seen intact.”
While the Chupa Chups brand name comes from the Spanish verb chupar, meaning “to suck.”
(Btw, Dali got the gig because he was mates with the company owner) | | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 18:17 - Apr 20 with 1597 views | HantsR |
My cousin knitted baby socks for Perry Fenwick ( of Eastenders fame)...when he ( Perry) was a baby [Post edited 20 Apr 18:19]
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| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 18:53 - Apr 20 with 1532 views | DannyPaddox |
Warning: Look away now if you’re lactose intolerant.
The only London tube station whose name is formed of two cheeses is Swiss Cottage. |  | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 23:15 - Apr 20 with 1396 views | Juzzie |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 11:31 - Jan 29 by DavieQPR |
WD40 is not an oil and the WD stands for Water Displacement. |
40 denotes the number of formula attempts before they got it right. |  | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 00:15 - Apr 21 with 1319 views | B_Wad |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 23:15 - Apr 20 by Juzzie |
40 denotes the number of formula attempts before they got it right. |
And it has never been patented. Only one person supposedly knows the formula. |  | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 12:44 - Apr 21 with 1132 views | johann28 |
Judy Garland was born Frances Ethel Gumm.
I live next door to the house where she died. |  | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 18:24 - Apr 21 with 1010 views | digswellhoop |
the shop the range look at logo real name is orange | | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 18:25 - Apr 21 with 1007 views | digswellhoop |
QPR quite pathetic really 😁 | | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 02:43 - Apr 22 with 874 views | DannyPaddox |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 18:25 - Apr 21 by digswellhoop |
QPR quite pathetic really 😁 |
Di Gswe LLhoop
Actually Welsh | | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 06:26 - Apr 22 with 842 views | PlanetHonneywood |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 14:49 - Jan 15 by Benny_the_Ball |
People used to use urine to tan animal skins, so some families used to all pee in a pot and then sell it to the tannery. If you had to do this to survive you were "Piss Poor". But spare a thought for the really poor folk who couldn't even afford to buy a pot. They "didn't have a pot to piss in". [Post edited 15 Jan 14:49]
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Another from the tannery industry.
Of the various physically challenging jobs required to turn hide into leather, a less demanding role was to use a tool called a skive to smooth the hide.
Consequently, when a worker was assigned to the role, they were said to be, 'skiving off.' |  |
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| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 20:28 - Apr 22 with 652 views | colinallcars |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 13:44 - Apr 1 by Monkey_Roots |
NONCE
Not On Normal Courtyard Exercise |
Another one is PONCE. My dad used to say it was short for Ponsonby - an upper class twit.
Later, I heard it was Person On Non Creative Employment. | | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 10:43 - Apr 23 with 473 views | robith |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 11:57 - Jan 28 by NewBee |
Whereas at Bank Station on the Central Line Underground, the platforms are notably curved, rather than straight.
This is because the Bank of England insisted that the line/station (built 1900?) must avoid being tunnelled directly under the BofE's vaults i.e. where they keep the gold.
I also read somewhere (I think) that when the underground lines were first being built, the locomotives were causing so much vibration and noise etc, that the potential damage to buildings above was so great that the whole concept was in danger of being stopped.
So the engineers then replaced the locomotive engines at the front and back of the trains with smaller ones spaced along the trains' length, thereby spreading the load and reducing the vibration etc. |
The curve is indirectly because of the vault not directly.
When they built the early tube lines there were huge legal arguments about if the land owners owned the land underneath, and who would be liable for issues caused above ground by the tunnels. So to avoid this the early cut and cover lines and the first deep level lines broadly followed the roads. So the central line follows the A40 but then has to curve around Cheapside, Poultry and Threadneedle street to then follow the A10 to Liverpool Street, which causes the huge bend at Bank |  | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 12:44 - Apr 23 with 411 views | MrSheen |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 10:43 - Apr 23 by robith |
The curve is indirectly because of the vault not directly.
When they built the early tube lines there were huge legal arguments about if the land owners owned the land underneath, and who would be liable for issues caused above ground by the tunnels. So to avoid this the early cut and cover lines and the first deep level lines broadly followed the roads. So the central line follows the A40 but then has to curve around Cheapside, Poultry and Threadneedle street to then follow the A10 to Liverpool Street, which causes the huge bend at Bank |
It must be way down to have gone under the Fleet along Farringdon Street/Holborn Viaduct. Fingers crossed digging that one. [Post edited 23 Apr 12:46]
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| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 14:14 - Apr 23 with 351 views | robith |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 12:44 - Apr 23 by MrSheen |
It must be way down to have gone under the Fleet along Farringdon Street/Holborn Viaduct. Fingers crossed digging that one. [Post edited 23 Apr 12:46]
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The Fleet Sewer is about 4 to 6 metres below street level, the central line at Bank is a deep level line so was built with a digging shield and is c.20m below the street at Bank and St Pauls. But the Central and Piccadilly lines despite being deep cover still had to roughly follow the streets, especially when people in the area had a few bob to sue!
Though funnily enough the Fleet did cause the original tunnel at Farringdon to collapse when the sewer it was turned into burst | | | |
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