Stuff (trivia) that you should have known but didn't...

[LikeDylanInTheMovies]

At the age of 36 I've discovered that

1. Shirley McClaine and Warren Beatty were brother and sister

2. Camels store fat and not water in their humps.

People I've told about my discoveries have universally responded with 'well yeah, everyone knows that'.

Any other factoids you were well behind the curve with?

So the name panther comes from the Latin species name panthera.

A pilchard can be a sardine, but so can a herring or any number of small, oily fish.

Peter Ostrum, who played Charlie in the original film Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory, is now a large animal vet in rural New York.

The lad who played Johnny Briggs is now an accountant in Leeds. He uses (or did as this was 15 years ago) the chat up line 'I used to be Johnny Briggs' . Not sure if it worked or not.

Took me years to realise why chocolate smarties had the answer...

karron why do they have the answer?

Having obviously not paid attention in maths at school I had an 'oh wow' moment when I was told that 1 litre of water weighs 1kg!

Cos they're smart (ies)

^^ mind blown

Prunes are actually dried plums!

Rifleponyandme, that's for frozen potato waffles 😋

The person who wrote the lyrics to the MAS*H theme tune, 'Suicide is painless', was the 15 year old son of the Director. His dad earned $70,000 for directing the film. He has earned over $1m for co-writing the song.

Sisyphus I didn't know that, but the lyrics do sound like the work of a clever, gloomy 15 year old angry at the world.

I think this is true.... 'Fish' is just a term to cover what we know as fish, but actually fish aren't really from the same animal group and each different fish is much closer related to anything else than any other different fish.

I thought the Falkland Islands were off the coast of Scotland.

And dragons were extinct, like dinosaurs

I didn't realise until this week that Boris Johnson and Theresa May were second cousins.

Norwich is further north than Birmingham

This has blown my mind. I thought Norwich was proper south. Just looked on a map and I'm

That what is so of isn't it Em, you think of Norwich as being a southern city.

I will be singing this all evening now

If a hen is laying a soft shelled egg there is something wrong. A hen lays the egg the way you get it in the shop.

It's more the fact that the Midlands really aren't that far North, and 'the north' starts somewhere around the middle of England. I suspect that some southerners were the ones to come up with the labeling for that.

I only found out a few years ago that champagne isn't carbonated

Plus Birmingham is an industrial city that expanded in the nineteenth century and as such has more in common with say Leeds, Manchester and Sheffield. Whereas Norwich doesn't have that tradition and being located on the South East side of the country is more readily lumped in with the south east. the so called home-counties and what not.

Dylan
Norwich is very much not the 'Home Counties'. It's East Anglia thank you very much, Home Counties indeed.

I only found out a few years ago that champagne isn't carbonated
It is really. It's just Tesco Value white out through a soda stream and into a fancy bottle.

The way bananas grow - it's crazy! Google it...it's worth it. They grow UP!

Desolate I know, that's why I said 'lumped in with' not 'part of' in people's mind and thought of as more 'southern' - relatively prosperous and genteel county city with a service-sector economy than Birmingham.