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Pannage was a tax on keeping pigs in royal forests that was paid in pigs.
Henry VIII put a tax on beards in 1535, but made sure his own was exempt. King David I of Scotland gave tax rebates to subjects with good table manners. William The Conqueror had been in England for two weeks before the Battle of Hastings began. King John was named 'Softsword' for his feeble military activities. |
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Baseball legend Babe Ruth always wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep his head cool. In South Korea, this is considered unsporting, unless the player has a doctor’s note.
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Under extreme high pressure, diamonds can be made from peanut butter.
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There are more atoms in a single glass of water, than glasses of water in all the oceans of the Earth.
Half of all humans who have ever lived, died from malaria. If you shuffle a deck of cards, chances are that the new order of playing cards has never existed before. There is a species of jellyfish that is immortal (turritopsis nutricula). The largest air force in the world is the US Air Force. The second largest air force in the world is the US Navy. |
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Those were awesome pumphol.
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In the Hundred Years War, the French called the English 'godons' because they were always shouting 'god damn'.
Lalochezia is using swearing to relieve stress or pain. The words proctalgia, proctodynia, pygalgia and rectalgia all mean 'pain in the backside' In Exodus 33:23, God shows Moses his arse: 'And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts' |
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Isn't there something in Exodus about Moses going forth in his Triumph?
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No it was his Cortina Mark 3
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No it was his Cortina Mark 3
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There was a third Apple founder Ronald Wayne who sold his 10% stake for $800 in 1976.
A 2009 search for the Loch Ness Monster came up empty. Scientists did find over 100,000 golf balls. "twelve plus one" is an anagram of "eleven plus two". In 1999, the U.S. government paid the Zapruder family $16 million for their home made cine film of JFK's assassination. Fredric Baur invented the Pringles can. When he passed away in 2008, his ashes were buried in one. |
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The citizens of Kuwait celebrated the end of the first Gulf War by firing weapons into the air. 20 Kuwaitis died as a result of bullets falling from the sky.
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Number 11 is a 20/1 shot in the 3-30, which is the 5th leg of the Scoop 6.
You can back the Scoop 6 to be won at about 2.8 So if no.11 loses the 3-30, you're through to the last leg with whatever tickets are left. |
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wrong thread ffs
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Did you know
At least 100 people a day post on the wrong thread on the betfair forum  |
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According to a survey, people who own cats are more likely to have university degrees than dog owners.
Some famous people had apparently had ailurophobia (fear of cats. Alexander The Great, Julius Caesar, Genghis Khan, William Shakespeare, Louis 14th, Napoleon Bonaparte, Isadora Duncan, Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler. Dwight D. Eisenhower is said to have had his staff shoot any cats seen on the grounds of his home. and now for something completely different... In 1945, the German submarine U-1206 was sunk after the toilet malfunctioned and a crew members botched repair forces them to the surface. It was spotted, and bombed. 13, unlucky for some? In Shakespeare's 37 plays there are a total of 13 suicides. |
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Tony Hancock's mother took over the Harbour Heights Hotel, Bournemouth in 1959.
I don't know if the name was changed as a nod to her son or if it was already the name but influenced her decision or if it was just coincidence |
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The shortest UK top 40 chart-topper is Adam Faith's 'What Do You Want' from 1959, at 1 minutes and 38 seconds.
Two of Shakespeare's plays, Much Ado About Nothing and Hamlet, have been translated into Klingon. The Klingon Language Institute in Pennsylvania says it plans to translate more. Some people believe that there is a 13th sign of the Zodiac called Arachne (the spider or weaver) tucked in between Taurus and Gemini. |
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Gary Lineker is the face of Walkers Crisps and was quite happy to endorse 'Salt and Lineker' crisps, while Michael Owen agreed to 'Cheese and Owen'. But a certain superstar wouldn't play ball with 'Smokey Beckham'.
God is the only character in The Simpsons with a full hand of digits, even Jesus only had four. The word 'god' appears in every book of the bible except Esther and Song Of Solomon. |
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The Sami people of northern Finland use a measure called Poronkusema: the distance a reindeer can walk before needing to urinate.
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From age two to six, Winston Churchill lived in Dublin.
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In 2009, a retired policeman called Geraint Woolford was admitted to Abergale Hospital in north Wales and ended up next to another retired policeman called Geraint Woolford. The men weren’t related, had never met and were the only two people in the UK called Geraint Woolford.
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Before the statue of Nelson was placed on top of the 17-foot-tall column in Trafalgar Square in 1842, 14 stone masons had dinner at the top.
More than 1,000 bodies are buried underneath Aldgate station, in a plague pit built in 1665. Harrods sold cocaine until 1916. Covent Garden is a spelling mistake the area used to be a market garden for a convent. |
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St Martin of Tours exorcised most people by shoving his hand down their throat and forcing the devil out of their anus.
500,000 Italians visit an exorcist every year. 'The devils port-gate' was an Elizabethan euphemism for the vagina. In the 18th century 'bum-fodder' and 'arse-wisp' both meant toilet paper. |
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500,000 Italians visit an exorcist every year.
He must be busy |
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Nick knows the Devil is in the detail
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In 1999, Darlington FC acquired 50,000 worms to irrigate their waterlogged pitch. They all drowned.
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Edmund Hillary, right, the first man to climb Everest, was a professional beekeeper. When filling in forms, he always gave his occupation as “apiarist”.
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Tintin is called Tantan in Japanese because TinTinis pronounced ‘Chin chin’ and means pen1s.
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The water in the mouth of a blue whale weighs more than its body.
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Actor Omar Sharif is jetting in from his home in Paris to cheer on his beloved Hull City at Wembley in the FA Cup Final. The star of Lawrence Of Arabia was introduced to the club by Sir Tom Courtenay when they shared a London flat in the 1960s.
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On an average day, Britons spend 14 hours and 39 minutes sitting down.
Before dentists chairs were invented, the patients head was clenched between the dentists knees. The electric chair was invented by a dentist. The first guillotine was built by a harpsichord maker. |
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The road leading to the front of Wembley Stadium is called Olympic Way.
Wembley Way is a short residential street about half a mile from the stadium. |
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I will check that one out next Sunday Nick as I am off to see the Orient.
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Saddam’s bunker was designed by the grandson of the woman who built Hitler’s bunker.
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