Tell me something useless but interesting I don't know. No googling allowed. Corrections welcomed.

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I love these threads so please tell me all manner of useless info. [Thanks]

Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a Friday the 13th.

Janeeyre, That's who is was, Argent! Never realised.

A peanut is not a nut; it is a legume.

Not sure that you are right there Scone. Pretty sure people get tested for nut allergies for peanuts.
Off to google that actually, as I would hate for someone with a nut allergy to still be given peanuts.

Googled it.
You are quite right. It is a legume.
But lots of people do get allergic reactions to them.

If you have a nut allergy there is a differentiation between "ground nuts" and "tree nuts." Peanuts are known as "groundnuts" in quite a few countries.

BalloonSlayer - i can imagine the IABU now.

IABU - 40 of them ... 40!!! And only three presents between them for my PFB

YABU - Gold is quite pricey you know. I know because i've hocked some recently to a bloke in a kiosk in Telford town centre.

YABU - You sound quite entitled (son of God indeed) - Frankincense is from the bark of rare trees and a naice quality present.

YABU - Who wouldn't want Olly Mhrrs for Christmas

I have one prompted by another thread (but repeating because it's not well known): you cannot have a 'family coat of arms' or a 'family crest' for your surname. Coats of arms are granted to one individual, and after that, you inherit them in a direct line with males before females.

You can 'buy' crests/coats of arms online and you can also pay to have online sites tell you your 'family arms' or the 'crest' belonging to your surname, but they are a con.

Also, the coat of arms of England used to be the leopards of England quartered with the lilies of France (which England used to show they owned territories in France). This annoyed the French king so much he change his coat of arms ... but the English king just shrugged and quartered his arms with the new French coat. Petty? Never!

Looksgood I'm old enough to remember the original and didn't realise Kiss had done a cover
Great song!

This would be a great thread for the poster who was looking for help to compile a Christmas Quiz!

The life of a spider is as long as it is short

Tell me something useless but interesting I don't know. No googling allowed. Corrections welcomed.

ME

using toothpaste is the best and cheapest way to clean silver.

Almonds are not nuts.

Breweries sell the foam off the top of their fermenting beer for making marmite.

True octopus.
And like peanuts, people are allergic to almonds.

Are there any nuts that really are nuts?

JaneEyreTheRedNosedReindeer- I can tell you something you don't know that may or may not be useless...

you can strike out whole sentences

A baby trout is called a fingerling and a group of trout is called a Hoover.

Showy I can do this as well.

Wait for it.....

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Spectacular fail there!
Gets coat!

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McDonalds is the 4th largest employer in the world

Crosswords started off being called wordcrosses.

Totem I think the astronaut who said it was Jack Swigert.