Useless facts...

[Duckster]

Golf courses cover 4% of North America..

I call rubbish on that one.

 

[Duckster]

All the swans in England are property of the Queen.

Wrong - only unmarked mute swans in open water, plus she only claims those on certain stretches of the River Thames and its surrounding tributaries

 

[Imurg]

Swans.....Up 'em I say!!

Saturn's rings are mostly no more than 30 feet thick.

 

[backwoodsman]

The longest putt made with a single stroke of a putter is eight and a half miles.

 

[Imurg]

The longest putt made with a single stroke of a putter is eight and a half miles.

Ollie on Concorde..?

 

[c1973]

Kim Jung Ill?

Nah, he never used a putter, it was always a hole in one.

 

[ScienceBoy]

Ben Hogan and Bobby Jones never wore a golf glove.

I am surprised you put that under useless facts, changing your opinion on gloves?

 

[njc1973]

The teddy bear is named after Theodore Roosevelt.

 

[ruff-driver]

The spartans invented the stag do around 500 bc

 

[Duckster]

We have no honest idea about the shape of the milky way. We can guess though.

No human has ever stood on the far side of the moon.

 

[Captainron]

San Miguel beer is not Spanish. It's originally from the Phillipines.

 

[stevelev]

You can't lick your elbow!

FALSE

[video]https://youtu.be/q8g_OqZimtk[/video]

 

[SocketRocket]

We have no honest idea about the shape of the milky way. We can guess though.

It's rectangular and you can eat it between meals.

 

[SocketRocket]

Every week a Woman gets knocked down on a Zebra Crossing.

And She's getting bloody fed up with it.

 

[Tongo]

Thought i'd resurrect this one as read a couple of interesting footie ones recently:

1.) When translated into English from Spanish the club name Real Sociedad means Royal Society.
2.) When translated into English from the native Basque language the club name Osasuna means health.
3.) Boca Juniors kit colours of yellow and blue were decided in the early days of the club when the founders decided that they would adopt the colours of the national flag of the next ship that sailed along the River Plate to Buenos Aires. The nationality of the ship was Swedish.

 

[Norrin Radd]

frogs cant swallow with their eyes open.

 

[williamalex1]

There is only one Monopolies Commission.

 

[Blue in Munich]

Golf courses cover 4% of North America..

Golf courses cover 10% of Bermuda… :thup:

 

[Liverbirdie]

88.8% of pinseeker's posts are about Liverpool or LiverpoolPhil.

100% of them are about rubbish.:thup:

 

[Duckster]

Thought i'd resurrect this one as read a couple of interesting footie ones recently:

1.) When translated into English from Spanish the club name Real Sociedad means Royal Society.
2.) When translated into English from the native Basque language the club name Osasuna means health.
3.) Boca Juniors kit colours of yellow and blue were decided in the early days of the club when the founders decided that they would adopt the colours of the national flag of the next ship that sailed along the River Plate to Buenos Aires. The nationality of the ship was Swedish.

On a similar tack, AC Milan have the cross of St George in their badge as the club was originally an ex-pat's cricket & football club founded by a couple of blokes from Nottingham.