Random facts you have only recently discovered

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I found out only yesterday you are not allowed to take photos of the Eiffel Tower at night...mind totally blown

another colour one.
we call things red that are actually orange.
red hair
red squirrels
etc.

That is because in Uk we used to not have a word for orange. We used red to describe things that were orange.

My French husband puts the cursor between red and orange and green and blue in a different place than I do, so I call things orange / blue and he calls them red / green.

I’m stunned @augustusglupe thought Glasgow was in Ireland 🤔

The common video game money cheat 'rosebud' (I know it from The Sims) is a Citizen Kane reference.

The river Severn has led to my belief that wales may be separated entirely by water, there are a lot of rivers that follow the border so I wondered if it was actually separate due to that.... I'm not entirely stupid but Iv always wondered - I didn't know that Portsmouth was an island until this thread

I did however know that Glasgow was in Scotland......!

@wanderings you lost me at 1

You can't sneeze in your sleep.

Come on Eileen was a hit nearer to the end of WWII than to today shock

Nobody checked this yet? Utter rubbish. 1996 it was released, so 23 years ago (omg!). WWII finished in 1945, so 51 years ago.

Come on Eileen can’t be from 1996! Those dungarees!

Nobody checked this yet? Utter rubbish. 1996 it was released, so 23 years ago (omg!). WWII finished in 1945, so 51 years ago

I remember dancing to it in the 80s.

1982

WW2 ended 1945 - so 37 years before. 1982 was 37 years ago.

It was 1982 which was 37 years ago. And also 37 years since end of WW2

X post choma

Cherrysoup Come On Eileen was released in June 1982 - so it was closer to the end of WW2 (just).

Nobody checked this yet? Utter rubbish. 1996 it was released, so 23 years ago (omg!). WWII finished in 1945, so 51 years ago.

51 years between 1945 and 1996.

I really want to try the car thing but can’t be bothered having to go and start my car and put the windows up if it doesn’t work. Will try in the morning.

Oh bugger, what am I thinking? I wasn’t even drinking when I wrote that! Sorry, everybody, I apologise!

Cherrysoup It wasn’t released in 1996

51 years between 1945 and 1996.

Yes, but what does 1996 have to do with Come on Eileen?

Ah, x post

51 years between 1945 and 1996.

Except it was ORIGINALLY released in 1982

Divide 99999999 by 81 on a calculator.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/142,857

I'd never heard of a 'cyclic number' before.

Aahh

Cling film boxes have little ears that you fold back to keep the roll in place. Nearly 50years old and I've only just realised that!!!!