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Eating carrots doesn't improve your eyesight or help you see in the dark. The belief that carrots help you see better in the dark can be traced back to World War Two.
To prevent the Germans finding out that Britain was using radar to intercept bombers on night raids, the Air Ministry issued press releases saying that British pilots were eating lots of carrots to give them excellent night vision.
(On the other hand, have you ever seen a rabbit wearing glasses?)
To prevent the Germans finding out that Britain was using radar to intercept bombers on night raids, the Air Ministry issued press releases saying that British pilots were eating lots of carrots to give them excellent night vision.
(On the other hand, have you ever seen a rabbit wearing glasses?)
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Same with spinach, someone put a decimal point in the wrong place.
Popeye might never have been created if not for that. |
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Continuing with a WW II theme...
Guy Gibson's dog N****r died on 16 May 1943, the day of the famous "Dambusters" raid, when he was hit by a motorist. He was buried at midnight as Gibson was leading the raid. "N****r" was the codeword Gibson used to confirm the breach of the Möhne Dam. |
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People with green eyes can see clearer in the dark than anyone else.FACT
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In December 2024, Google unveiled a new quantum chip called Willow, which it claimed could take five minutes to solve a problem that would currently take the world's fastest super computers 10 septillion years - or 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years – to complete.
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Under Massachusetts law, it is still illegal to travel on a way with a sleigh or sled drawn by a horse, unless there are at least three bells attached to some part of the harness.
This rule inspired the song "Jingle Bells". |
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Although referred to by the media as "Wembley Way", the name of the road leading to Wembley Stadium from Wembley Park Underground is actually Olympic Way.
Wembley Way is a short residential street about half a mile from the stadium. |
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Cooked carrots are better for you than raw. Cooking the vegetable releases more beta-carotene. The raw vegetable only gives you 3% beta-carotene, but cooked you get up to 40%.
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It would take 77,000 years for Voyager 1 to reach our nearest star (not including the Sun).
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It is not illegal to drive a car with the interior light on.
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A horse normally has more than one horsepower. A study in 1993 showed that the maximum power a horse can produce is 18,000W, around 24 horsepower.
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"Have you ever seen a rabbit wearing glasses?"
No,but I saw a programme once where they put little pairs of glasses with coloured lenses on chickens...apparently if another chicken got a small cut,the others would attack it because they saw the blood...so that stopped it |
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The Ancient Romans used to drop a piece of toast into their wine for good health - hence why we 'raise a toast'.
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Manatee control their buoyancy through and endless cycle of farting.
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Savoy court is the only street in the UK where you drive on the right.
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Pigs cant look up.
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The Windy City nickname has nothing to do with Chicago’s weather.
Chicago’s nickname was coined by 19th-century journalists, referring to the city’s politicians being long-winded or boastful “windbags.” However, according to the Chicago Historical Society’s Encyclopedia of Chicago, the nickname may have come from jealous urban rivals, who felt Chicago’s residents’ boosterism, or self-promotion, represented their “windiness” and being “full of hot air.” |
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Nelson didn't say 'Kiss me Hardy'. He said 'Drink Drink, Rub Rub, Kiss Kiss'.
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abba 21. Maybe they can if they lay on their backs!
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Raven, a six-year-old chimpanzee, became the 22nd most successful money manager in the USA after choosing her stocks by throwing darts at a list of 133 internet companies. The chimp created her own index, dubbed MonkeyDex, and in 1999 delivered a 213 per cent gain, outperforming more than 6,000 professional brokers on Wall Street.
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Your signature could reveal personality traits.
A study in 2016 purports that among men, a larger signature correlates with higher social bravado and, among women, a bigger signature correlates with narcissistic traits. |
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Last day for horseracing before a 3-day hiatus until Boxing Day. Then all hell breaks loose again.
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Olivia Newton-John's maternal grandfather was German Nobel Prize–winning physicist Max Born whom Robert Oppenheimer studied under at the University of Göttingen.
(Maybe the kids at my school who called her Olivia Neutron-Bomb were more knowledgeable than I realised.) |
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The oldest continuous sporting event in the U.S. is the Kentucky Derby.
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Back to WW II...
Audie Murphy was the most decorated American combat soldier of World War II and the most highly decorated enlisted soldier in U.S. history. He received the Medal of Honor for valor that he demonstrated at age 19 for single-handedly holding off a company of German soldiers for an hour at the Colmar Pocket in France in January 1945, before leading a successful counterattack while wounded. |
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Hell did literally freeze over when a town of the same name in the US state of Michigan experienced temperatures as low as -26C when it was hit by a polar vortex in 2019.
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During World War II, the United States Playing Card Company joined forces with American and British intelligence agencies to create a very special deck of cards. They distributed them as Christmas gifts to soldiers, but they also helped Allied prisoners of war escape from German POW camps. When wet, individual cards peeled apart to reveal maps of escape routes.
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The average age of the US combat soldier in Vietnam was 22.
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Howard Smith, former drummer for The Vapors, including on their 1980 hit, Turning Japanese, is the current mayor of Guildford.
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Interesting, Nick. Keep them coming.
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Cheers, Ken.
...Audie Murphy was 19 in 1945 when he was received the Medal of Honor but the average age of the US combat soldier in WW II was, in fact, 26. (See below.) |
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In the 1970 FA Cup Final replay at Old Trafford between Chelsea and Leeds Utd, the referee showed just one yellow card during the entire 120 minutes. (Chelsea's Ian Hutchinson was booked.)
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In the 1970 FA Cup Final replay at Old Trafford between Chelsea and Leeds Utd, the referee showed just one yellow card during the entire 120 minutes. (Chelsea's Ian Hutchinson was booked.)
It has been re-refereed twice since by leading officials according to modern interpretations of the rules. In 1997, David Elleray concluded he would have shown six red cards, while in 2020 Michael Oliver opted for 11. |
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The numbers on a roulette wheel add up to 666. Hence the game's nickname, The Devil's Wheel.
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Double Indemnity (1944). (Brilliant film - currently on BBC iPlayer.)
Due to strict wartime food rationing, policemen were stationed in the store where a scene with Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck was filmed, to make sure nobody on the film crew was tempted to take away any of the food. Paramount released publicity stills showing four policemen in the store with MacMurray and Stanwyck. |
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The character Walter Neff was originally named Walter Ness, but director/writer Billy Wilder found out that there was a man living in Beverly Hills named Walter Ness who was coincidentally an insurance salesman. To avoid being sued for defamation of character, they changed the name. In the novel, his name is Walter Huff, and Dietrichson is Nirdlinger.
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Gavels are not and have never been used in English and Welsh courts.
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The mortar used on the Great Wall Of China consists of lime and Sticky Rice!
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The Great Wall of China cannot be seen by the naked human eye from the Moon. The apparent width of the Great Wall as seen from the Moon would be the same as that of a human hair viewed from 2 miles away.
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