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    Quote Originally Posted by RD200 View Post
    During WW2 Actor Peter Butterworth was one of the vaulters covering for the escapers during the escape portrayed by the book and film*The Wooden Horse.
    Butterworth later auditioned for the film in 1949 but "didn't look convincingly heroic or athletic enough" according to the makers of the film.

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    An engineer for Apple with 21 years service (who even convinced Jobs to switch to Intel) retired and was bored so thought he'd go work at the local Apple store as a genius, fix some computers. Didn't get the job.

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    Norwegian pizza is the worst in the world.

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    The inventor of the Hawaiian Pizza was Greek man living in Canada.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sinnlover View Post
    The inventor of the Hawaiian Pizza was Greek man living in Canada.
    He should have been arrested and be doing plenty time for it. Where is justice?
    Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too.

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    Music producer Mark Ronson is a cousin of politicians Sir Malcolm Rifkind and Leon Brittan.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GraniteQuarry View Post
    If you were given £1 every second you'd be a millionaire in 12 days.

    To become a billionaire would take 32 years.
    To become a trillionaire would take 31,000 years.
    US debt currently stands at 25 trillion dollars.

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    Michael Caine never originally said “My name is Michael Caine and not many people know that”, it was Peter Sellers doing an impression on his answer phone message.

    Michael Caine did however tell the drug dealer / ‘My Cocaine’ story.

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    Quote Originally Posted by oldoakknives View Post
    ...that the propellant (powder) in a cartridge doesn’t explode, it burns which creates pressure.
    I thought an explosion was just a really quick burn!

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