What random pieces of trivia have you learned lately?

[DawdlingService]

I just learned that Frankie Valli doesn't sing the lead on Oh What A Night. The drummer, Gerry Polci does, and what a voice he has, I'm not a Four Seasons fan so didn't question it but listening to it now it's really obvious that it's a different person.

What random things have you discovered lately?

@IggyAce 💐

Whippy ice cream while studying chemistry at Oxford University. The Mr Whippy ice cream brand was first sold in 1959 by the Forte Group but a research team, including Margaret Thatcher, discovered a way of doubling the air in ice cream mix and crating the soft scoop 99 flake ice cream in a cone that we love today

was part of a team that did

Me too. Felt very stupid so glad I'm not the only one!

I am a local and never know that. The Bailey Bridge is not a good pub though, sadly!

Despite Deliverance being one of my favourite films I have only found out recently that the boy playing the banjo did not know how to play a banjo and they had a kid that could, sit behind him and put his arms through his sleeves to hold the banjo and get the placement of the fingers looking correct. The end result being dubbed of course.

The Swiss eat the most chocolate in Europe but have the lowest obesity rate. I need the know their secret.

Close!
They're called pufflings as this link to Project Puffin shows.

this is a bit embarrassing, but only in the last few years did I realise that West Berlin was an enclave entirely within the former East Germany. I had wrongly assumed that Berlin was on the border between East and West Germany and so half the city was in each country.

If you hold your nose closed, you can't hum.

Yes, definitely pufflings, Iolo says so.

Also that more time elapsed between the first stegosaurus and last t- Rex than between the last t-Rex and an iPhone

A pregnant woman is entitled to wee in a policeman's helmet 😁😁

This will make you feel better....I am a chef of 20 years! Never really used cous cous as I can't stand it lol

@Georgeskitchen You've got to be kidding! I'm pregnant and work in police station! I'm going to have fun tomorrow 😂

That the brand name SPAM sttands for Spiced Pork and Ham.
(answer in a quiz I recently took part in)

I learned that Simon from the Inbetweeners turned 39 today, making him the same age now that Greg Davies was when he started playing the teacher.

You can fit all the planets of the solar system in the distance between the Earth and the moon.

I knew this one, but I still can't wrap my mind round it!

I can hum with my nose closed.

Andie MacDowell was the pretty young thing in the Lord Greystoke Tarzan movie (Chris Lambert?). AM hasn't done any interesting roles in about 20 years but is still considered a senior Hollywood person.

Oh and Glenn Close voiced Nala in the animated Tarzan movie (Phil Collins soundtrack).

Look, it beats me googling weird facts about H&M.

That Ronald Regan was funny.
So a priest and a politician go to heaven...
...and they're greeted by St. Peter.
"Well, hello there!", He says cheerfully. "Welcome to Heaven! Please, follow me and I'll escort you to where you'll be staying!"
First, He shows the priest his new home. It's a simple apartment, and there are hundreds of identical apartments surrounding it.
"This is where you'll be staying!", He says to the priest, who is shocked at how simple heaven is compared to how he thought it would be.
Nonetheless, he sighs and enters his apartment, which is even more simple inside.
"And as for you...", St. Peter says to the politician. "BEHOLD! Your very own mansion, twice as big as the White House! It's got fifteen bedrooms,two bowling alleys, an indoor pool, indoor zoos, and much, much more!"
The politician spends approximately fourteen minutes cheering, dancing, and thanking St. Peter before entering his new place.
From his window, the priest sees this. He storms out of his apartment and shoves St. Peter before saying, "What is going on?! I devoted my entire life to your religion and I get a simple apartment while that lousy man gets a MANSION? Explain now!".
St. Peter merely chuckles and says, "You know how many priests come here? Thousands! Meanwhile, that guy's the first politician that ever made it here!"

Birds don't wee. Not the sort of subject I normally think about.

That 1 in 7 people out of everyone who has ever lived, has died of tuberculosis.

I
A) Either misheard SF
or
B) Got mixed up with baby Hedgehogs = hoglets
either way both names are cute😄

Only found out in the last couple of years that the Elgin marbles aren't the round things that kids play with.

Seahorses don't have a stomach to store food so they have to eat all the time.

I thought this too! I've never been to the British museum