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The company that makes Nutella, Ferraro rocher etc uses 25% of the worlds production of hazelnuts to makes its products  :o

Contrary to what you and I think, the correct pronunciation of Nutella is supposedly NEW-TELLA, not NUT-ELLA. Seems barmy, as it's based on nuts, but it's on their website somewhere.

Oprah Winfrey was fired from her job as a news reporter because quote " you are unsuitable for tv"

Charlie Chaplin once came 3rd in a Charlie Chaplin look-a-like contest

i once won a 3-legged race (TRUE RANDOM FACT)
anyone care to explain HOW?

You were the only person that entered?

Because you could?

Are we doing real ones or plausible fake ones? Excellent thread if either the latter or both.

All the clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck at 4.20.

Leonardo da Vinci invented a game believed to be the inspiration behind Connect 4

"pound for pound there's more sugar in a lemon than a strawberry" not a trick is it, knowledge.....

winner i was about 10 or 11 and before my accident so i could

Some factoids shamelessly nicked of George Tokai's facebook feed this morning:
Cleopatra lived closer to the time of the building of Pizza Hut that of the Great Pyramid
Oxford University is older than the Aztec civilisation.
It was only 66 years between the first flight and the first flight to the moon.
France was still executing people by Guillotine when the first Star Wars film came out.
Another Star Wars one not from George, in May this year, the release of Phantom Menace will be closer to the release of Return Of The Jedi than to the present day.
If you're over 45 the world population has doubled in your lifetime.
If the history of Earth were compressed to a single year, modern humans would appear on December 31st at about 11:58pm

i cant ride a bike

Mint.

I can't swim

good thread!

random interesting fact of the day isssssssssssss.... an ostriches eye is bigger than its brain!

On another Ozzie note, female Kangaroo's have 3 vaginas  8)

Ten today  :)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-32349699

1. Emails sent in the morning receive longer replies.

2. In September 1944 the New York Times explained pizza to its readers and included a rare use of its plural "pizze" - there was an earlier article but it only mentioned pizza in passing.

3. Handgun bullets sometimes bounce off armadillos.

4. The Queen likes to have her pre-lunch gin and Dubonnet in front of BBC Two's the Daily Politics.

5. Alan Rickman got his friends Ruby Wax and playwright Peter Barnes to rewrite the dialogue involving his character the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, resulting in the line: "You. My room. 10.30 tonight. You 10.45. And bring a friend."

6. State senators in Minnesota are not allowed to make eye contact with each other while on the senate floor.

7. South Derbyshire has the lowest social mobility of any parliamentary constituency in England.

8. University Challenge question setters are particularly inclined to ask about Pre-Raphaelite paintings.

9. Men compete to give bigger online charity donations if the page is for an attractive woman.

10. Einstein's pipe is the most popular exhibit in the Smithsonian Institution's modern physics collection.

Photo copiers/scanners can't copy bank notes.

eh?  Course they can.  I've just scanned a fiver in.

Doesn't go down too well when you hand them over in Tescos though ;D

I tried £10, £20 £50 and every time it got cancelled and produced a part print.

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150624-the-secret-codes-of-british-banknotes

Perhaps it's the program you're scanning into?  Corel Draw isn't fussy.

Got ya, I've got a scanner/copier thingy. A one button press jobby. That may be the difference.