Tell Me An Interesting Fact.....

[sweet_left_foot]

Velma Thomas, 59, of Nitro, West Virginia, United States holds the record time for recovering from clinical death. In May 2008, Thomas went into cardiac arrest at her home. Medics were able to establish a faint pulse after eight minutes of CPR. Her heart stopped twice after arriving at the hospital and she was placed on life support. Doctors attempted to lower her body temperature to prevent additional brain injury. She was declared clinically dead for 17 hours after doctors failed to detect brain activity. Her son, Tim Thomas, stated that "her skin had already started hardening, her hands and toes were curling up, they were already drawn". She was taken off life support and funeral arrangements were in progress. However, ten minutes after being taken off life support, she revived and recovered

 

[Chisel]

King Henry VIII had servants called “Grooms of Stool”, who wiped him clean after he visited the toilet.

How the other half live

 

[Cardiffdaffs]

Despite being called the Stade de France or Stadium of France, France only won 1 gold medal across both the Olympics and Paralympics in the Stadium - and that was the very first event on Day 1 of the Olympics - Rugby 7s.

 

[Johnny Vincents Motorbike]

Its expensive to live on this planet, however, it does come with a free annual trip around the Sun

 

[Norman_Conquest]

Did you know that octopuses have three hearts? Two pump blood to the gills, while the third pumps it to the rest of the body. Interestingly, when an octopus swims, the heart that delivers blood to the body stops beating, which is why they prefer crawling over swimming—it’s less exhausting!

 

[wyliefan]

Samsung originally sold noodles - it wasn't until 1970 that they moved into the electronics industry.

 

[wyliefan]

Did you know that octopuses have three hearts? Two pump blood to the gills, while the third pumps it to the rest of the body. Interestingly, when an octopus swims, the heart that delivers blood to the body stops beating, which is why they prefer crawling over swimming—it’s less exhausting!

.....and they randomly go around punching fish for fun.

 

[wyliefan]

Sting's son is a member of The Police(force)

 

[Duffman]

The nearest capital city to London is Brussels

 

[red_harrington]

Greenland is further North, East, South & West than Iceland

England is further North, East, South & West than Wales

 

[Zoophonic]

Roofie is now only 40 posts short of becoming the most prolific poster on this Site. The current holder of that title has made only 1 post on here in the last 20 months.

 

[Middlesbrough123]

There’s a fossilised tree stump not far from here

 

[atypical_boro]

Pound for pound, there is more sugar in a lemon than a strawberry.

 

[TeessideCleveland]

Nowhere is more than 70 miles from the sea in the UK

Notes & Queries: Which British town is furthest from the sea? | Film | The Guardian

<p>Plus: Do any films get the history right? How many angels can dance on a pinhead?</p>

amp.theguardian.com

 

[TeessideCleveland]

Sting said his own (stage) name in the lyrics of Do They Know It’s Christmas

 

[goalscrounger]

Female mosquitos have accounted for the deaths of nearly half of the 110 billion people who have ever existed on this planet.

 

[Ziggy]

King Henry VIII had servants called “Grooms of Stool”, who wiped him clean after he visited the toilet.

I think they were called, Aristocraps.

 

[Ziggy]

In his book Who Owns Britain, Cahill argues that 0.3% of the British population owns 66% of the country, and these 160,000 families who own two-thirds of Great Britain largely descend from the army of William the Conqueror?
….and so it goes.

 

[TeessideCleveland]

Agnetha Faltskog’s middle name is Ase

 

[Canyoudigit]

Ken Barlow had been in Coronation street for 9 years the last time Newcastle United won a trophy