Edinburgh is further west than Liverpool.
Edinburgh is further west than Liverpool.
There is a small town in Alaska, which as it was growing from a handful of houses into a community - required to have a name.
The locals wanted to call it after the Ptarmigan (now the State bird of Alaska) but they were unsure of how to spell it, so to avoid embarassment - they decided to call the town.............................. CHICKEN.
The Vadoma tribe in northern Zimbabwe are best known for their Ectrodactyly. (They have three toes.)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vadoma
This is due to the limited gene pool in the tribe as a result of their remote location and rules that prevent marriage outside of the tribe.
It is thought the genetic mutation helps them climb trees as part of their hunter gatherer way of living.
Oddly enough, until fairly recently we used to have a meat raffle at the club on a Friday night. Your comment brought back memories of winning a prize and then getting home, after more than a few pints, and attempting to 'cook' it. Irrespective of whether this was indeed practical!
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Juan Pujol Garcνa was awarded both the Iron Cross and an MBE in 1944.
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Jimi Hendrix played his guitar upside-down
There are no bridges across the Amazon River.
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The synthpop pioneer Thomas Dolby wrote the software for Nokia's polyphonic ringtones.
Belgian beer expert Tim Webb is a psychiatrist.
The Windows 95 Startup chime was composed by Brian Eno
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March 3rd is otherwise known as 'what if cats and dogs had opposable thumbs?' day.
Minus 40° Celsius and minus 40° Fahrenheit are the same temperature.
Some of the bones (relics) of Saint Valentine are held in a friary in the Gorbals in Glasgow. Not the most romantic place in the world!
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At one point 90% of the worlds (early forced) Rhubarb was grown in a 9 mile area near Wakefield called the Rhubarb Triangle.
Chainsaws were invented in 1780 to make the removal of pelvic bone easier and less time consuming during childbirth.
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On average, Mercury is the closest planet to Earth.
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Every time you brush your teeth. You are brushing your skeleton
Everyone you meet knows something you don't
No ones ears or eyes are perfectly level
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There are apparently two things that never stop growing on your body: nose and ears.
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War memorials in Russia carry the dates 1941-1945, because they want to forget that for the first two years they were basically allied with Nazi Germany, supplying them with oil and materials, invading Poland, attacking Finland and annexing Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.
Your forehead, palms and soles are the only parts of human body without hair. These three areas are used to dump temperature in the human body when too hot.
Robert Deniro used to be married to someone called Diahnne Abbott.
No part of Walt Disney was frozen after he died.
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