I bet you didnt know that

LirW · 13-01-2018 10:40am

When Sylvester Stallone moved to Hollywood to make it big there, he really found himself struggling with money with his wife (just before Rocky). They had an old Pitbull dog and because they were struggling so much, they decided to sell the dog to a family in a very hot summer because they couldn't accommodate his elderly needs in the heat.
When around half a year later Sly was starting to shoot Rocky, he approached the family and asked if they'd be willing to let the dog star in the movie because he'd written parts for him in the script. After short hesitation the family said yes and the dog got to star in 2 Rocky movies.

Out of that story there developed the legend that Sly sold the dog to a stranger and once he made money from Rocky he bought the dog back for 15.000$. Which of course isn't true.

eisenberg1 · 13-01-2018 1:07pm

It's a myth that all oysters are aphrodisiacs.
I ate a dozen last nite and only nine worked.

HONKEY TONK · 13-01-2018 1:15pm

If you walked down Pytchley in London It may look like an ordinary street

But if you take a closer look at the railings you may notice they have a kink in them.

What most people don't realize is that these railings are actually the leftover stock from WW2 stretchers used to rescue Londonser trapped in the rubble

Also used for railings were the childrens stretchers along petrestrian areas of the estates

You can see the railings on Google Street view

Here

the purple tin · 13-01-2018 6:09pm

and during WW2 loads of british people donated their railings to be melted down and used for the war effort. The thing is the bulk of the metal was just scrapped and never used as it wasn't suitable. the government asked for the railings to make people think they were personally helping Britain win the war, like a morale booster.
Bees were originally wasps who decided to go vegetarian.

Buford T. Justice XIX · 13-01-2018 7:39pm

Yogurt was probably discovered at the same time in many places about 4000 years ago after milk carried in waterskins made of animal hide turned sour. The yogurt culture (boom boom) we enjoy in the west today traces its origins to Bulgarian yogurts from the 1920s and 1930s.

The link below goes into more detail about its development.

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20180110-the-country-that-brought-yoghurt-to-the-world

Capt'n Midnight · 13-01-2018 8:16pm

the purple tin wrote: »

Bees were originally wasps who decided to go vegetarian.

And ants are wasps that decided not to fly, well apart from the flying ants.

the purple tin · 13-01-2018 8:42pm

Grouch Marx's last words were 'this is no way to live'.

Riva10 · 13-01-2018 8:44pm

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

And ants are wasps that decided not to fly, well apart from the flying ants.

Ants are also known as Walks.

LarryGraham · 13-01-2018 9:03pm

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

Ireland is one of only 10 countries that doesn't have red or blue on their national flag.

The others are Bhutan, Cote d'Ivoire, Cyprus, India, Jamaica, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia and the Vatican City.

Since August 2017, when Mauritania added red to its flag, Jamaica is the only country without red, white or blue in their flag.

quickbeam · 13-01-2018 9:10pm

I didn't know Mauritania had amended its flag :eek:

I have fairly good country-flag recognition (thanks to having far too much time on my hands in the past). The extra stripes might have stumped me.

NapoleonInRags · 13-01-2018 10:16pm

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

Ireland is one of only 10 countries that doesn't have red or blue on their national flag.

The others are Bhutan, Cote d'Ivoire, Cyprus, India, Jamaica, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia and the Vatican City.

Qatar?

Quazzie · 13-01-2018 10:18pm

NapoleonInRags wrote: »

Qatar?

Maroon is a type of red

evolving_doors · 13-01-2018 10:20pm

Tabby is a colour not a type of cat.

NapoleonInRags · 13-01-2018 10:21pm

Quazzie wrote: »

Maroon is a type of red

Fair enough!

evolving_doors · 13-01-2018 10:22pm

If you smell chlorine when you go to a pool... it's not chlorine. It's the reaction of chlorine with urea which makes the smell.

Quazzie · 13-01-2018 10:24pm

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

Ireland is one of only 10 countries that doesn't have red or blue on their national flag.

The others are Bhutan, Cote d'Ivoire, Cyprus, India, Jamaica, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia and the Vatican City.

Pakistan?

Also Niger? There seems to be a LOT more

tayto lover · 13-01-2018 10:26pm

Ivory Coast have the reverse of our flag and no red or blue.

Quazzie · 13-01-2018 10:26pm

tayto lover wrote: »

Ivory Coast have the reverse of our flag and no red or blue.

That's Cote d'Ivoire

quickbeam · 13-01-2018 10:31pm

tayto lover wrote: »

Ivory Coast have the reverse of our flag and no red or blue.

Not quite the reverse of ours, as different dimensions.

Ours is 1:2. CI's is 2:3.

Probably the flags that look most similar are Romania and Chad with only a slight difference in the pantone of the blue.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 13-01-2018 10:32pm

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

Ireland is one of only 10 countries that doesn't have red or blue on their national flag.

The others are Bhutan, Cote d'Ivoire, Cyprus, India, Jamaica, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia and the Vatican City.

Niger?

quickbeam · 13-01-2018 10:35pm

Haiti and Liechtenstein are also very similar. If Wiki is to be believed: "it was discovered at the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics that Haiti and Liechtenstein were using the same flag. This led to the addition of a crown to the design of the flag of Liechtenstein."

Ineedaname · 13-01-2018 10:36pm

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

Ireland is one of only 10 countries that doesn't have red or blue on their national flag.

The others are Bhutan, Cote d'Ivoire, Cyprus, India, Jamaica, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia and the Vatican City.

India does have blue