The useless bits of info to see if we can make a million posts thread

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A group of larks is called an exaltation.

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A group of owls is called a parliament.

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The 80s song "Rosanna" from the Eighties was written about Rosanna Arquette, the actress.

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Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister

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Starfish don't have brains.





Either do collingwood supporters ....

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Shrimps' hearts are in their heads.

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Did you know that the actor Jane Seymour's birth name is: Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg.
Roy Rogers name was Leonard Slye
Dale Evans was Frances Octavia Smith.

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The derivation of the word trivia comes from the Latin "tri-" + "via", which means three streets. This is because in ancient times, at an intersection of three streets in Rome, they would have a type of kiosk where ancillary information was listed. You might be interested in it, you might not, hence they were bits of"trivia."

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Henry VIII only had two of his wives executed;
Anne Boleyn (#2) and Catherine Howard (#5).
Catherine of Aragon (#1) died after he had divorced her,
Jane Seymour (#3) died after childbirth (of Edward),
Anne of Cleves (#4) died after he divorced her
Katherine Parr (#6) actually outlived Henry.

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Jellyfish have no brains, yet they can tell light from dark, and sence movement.

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The term 'flying on cloud 9' originates from military flights. Cloud types are classified as numbers... with 'cloud 9' being a very tall thunderstorm. Jets have to climb to an extremely high altitude in order to fly over 'cloud 9.

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A dogs sense of smell is one of the keenest in nature. If a pot of stew was cooking on a stove, a human would smell the stew, while the dog could smell the beef, carrots, peas, potatoes, spices, and all the other individual ingredients in the stew. In fact, if you unfolded and laid out the delicate membranes from inside a dogs nose, the membranes would be larger than the dog itself.

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Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush. I keep my toothbrush in the living room now.

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The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.

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Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.