Total Trivia

[Gaia_Lorraine]

In 1900 London, there were 11 postal deliveries a day and 9 collections.

 

[WantonWitch]

There is still a law in England which states that


A woman may bite off the nose of any man who kisses her without her permission

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

There are 30 fences in the Grand National and all but two, the Chair and the Water, are jumped twice.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

There is still a law in England which states that


A woman may bite off the nose of any man who kisses her without her permission

I see nothing wrong with that

47 KitKats are eaten every second in the UK.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Queen Victoria reigned for 63 years and there have also been 63 monarchs since King Egbert (802 - 839)

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The actual length of the so-called "Hundred Years War" with France was 116 years.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

673 cavalry men charged with the Light Brigade on October 25, 1854.

 

[WantonWitch]

I see nothing wrong with that

47 KitKats are eaten every second in the UK.

nor me... tho I'm not happy about the one that says


An englishman may shoot ( with a bow and arrow ) any welshman in the city walls of Chester after dark

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

There are 10 ways a batsman can be out in cricket - bowled, caught, LBW, stumped, run-out, timed out (after 3 mins), obstructing the field, handling the ball, hitting the wicket and double hit.

I never understood the rules anyway

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

nor me... tho I'm not happy about the one that says


An englishman may shoot ( with a bow and arrow ) any welshman in the city walls of Chester after dark

I see nothing wrong with that either

 

[WantonWitch]

oh and did you know it's Illegal to die in Buckingham palace ??

 

[WantonWitch]

Or the one that says ( and this is for England )

It is illegal for any female to consume chocolate when riding on public transport

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The rules of cricket explained:

You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he is out. When they are all out, the side that's been out comes in and the side that's been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out.


"When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out, he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who are out all the time, and they decide when the men who are in are out. When both sides have been in and all the men have been out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game.

 

[WantonWitch]

The rules of cricket explained:

You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he is out. When they are all out, the side that's been out comes in and the side that's been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out.


"When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out, he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who are out all the time, and they decide when the men who are in are out. When both sides have been in and all the men have been out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game.

Bit like sex then... full of 'in's and out's '

Ity is illegal to have sex on a stationary motorcycle in London

 

[desideratum]

When the telephone appeared in the 1870s, people worried about receiving calls from people to whom they had not been properly introduced.

And what should one say when picking up the receiver? Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, suggested “Ahoy, ahoy”. But as in many other respects, his ideas lost out to those of Thomas Edison, who preferred “Hello”, an expression that was rarely used before the telephone but is now ubiquitous.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Bit like sex then... full of 'in's and out's '

Ity is illegal to have sex on a stationary motorcycle in London

The converse of that is... it's legal to have sex on a moving one

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

When glass shatters, the cracks travel at 3,000 mph.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Hypnos is the Greek God of sleep

 

[MikeCasanova]

Momentarily means "for a moment", rather than "in a moment" as is commonly believed.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

A species of sponge, called the red sponge, can be pushed through a piece of fabric so that it is broken into thousands of tiny pieces. The animal does not die. Rather, all the pieces reassemble until the sponge returns to its original form.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The now-extinct ancestor of the horse, eohippus, had a short neck, a pug muzzle, and stood no higher than a medium-sized dog.

 

[desideratum]

The early personal computer, the Sinclair ZX80, had 1kb of memory

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

There are 119 grooves on the edge of a quarter.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, the fathers of communism, wrote 500 articles for the "New York Tribune" from 1851 to 1862.

 

[MikeCasanova]

There are 119 grooves on the edge of a quarter.

Wait, wait... You really counted the grooves on the edge of a quarter?

Be well, dear - hope your last few days this week are great!

There are 120 yards in bounds on an American NFL football field - 100 scrimmage yards and two end zones that are 10 yards apiece.