Share Your Interesting But Not Very Useful Facts

[DickyC]

No part of Berkshire is more than 8.5 miles from the M4.

[glenrobbo]

Reading is no longer sitting on the dock of the bay.

"Oh, 'tis!"

"Oh no,' tisn't!"

[bristolbaron]

Crisps go out of date on Saturdays.

(Can be useful in a pub for a ‘next round’ bet, but pubs are closed = not very useful)

[Pothole]

There is only one football league team in England and Scotland's top 4 divisions with a J in its name

[T6 vanman]

bristolbaron said:

Crisps go out of date on Saturdays.

(Can be useful in a pub for a ‘next round’ bet, but pubs are closed = not very useful)

Just checked ….. Woah .. I'm using that

[Fort Jefferson]

More people live inside the yellow circle, than outside it.

[Pooh]

Perth harbour is the most inland harbour in the UK.

[QuartzDad]

France's longest land border is with Brazil.

[languagetimothy]

glenrobbo said:

Reading is no longer sitting on the dock of the bay.

"Oh, 'tis!"

"Oh no,' tisn't!"

Back in the day i suprised my GF to go and see Otis Reading and she was initially very excited but then really annoyed. Oh well, I enjoyed it, And thought the Berkshire based elevator manufacturers did a really interesting tour of their factory.

[CLX]

B&Q stands for Block & Quayle

[StevieBee]

The dot above an i or j is called a tittle.

[P5BNij]

After the gang had fled to Letherslade Farm, the first people on the scene of the great train robbery on 8/8/63 were the crew of a freight train passing on one of the adjacent lines, one of whom had a two car passenger unit named after him (Bill Green).

[anonymous-user]

Globally, 53% of what Amazon ships, is fresh air.

[Condi]

QuartzDad said:

France's longest land border is with Brazil.

Eh?



Anyway - Cleopatra lived closer to the release of the iPhone than the building of the pyramids.

[glenrobbo]

Condi said:

Eh?



Anyway - Cleopatra lived closer to the release of the iPhone than the building of the pyramids.

What?
Silicon Valley of the Kings?

[vaud]

Condi said:

QuartzDad said:

France's longest land border is with Brazil.

Eh?

Mainland France's longest border is with Spain, at 408 miles, but French Guiana, a French overseas territory, has a border with Brazil measuring 450 miles.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

On average, Mercury is the nearest planet to all the other planets in the solar system.

[General Price]

Sylvester Stallone directed Staying Alive.

[98elise]

Johan Renck who directed the excellent TV series Chernobyl is also known as singer songwriter Stakka Bo

https://youtu.be/sGNK-cOtxSs

[skinny]

There are around 10 lightening strikes on the earth every second