Games & Recreation Pointless Trivia

[worbod]

Just discovered this yesterday, then forgot about it, and recalled it today, which is slightly annoying because yesterday was the date in question.

The Beatles debut single was released on October 5, in 1962.
The debut episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus, the members of whom became good friends with The Beatles, debuted on October 5, 1969.

Some members of Monty Python, and even George Harrison, have often talked about "a spirit" which they felt travelled from The Beatles and onto Monty Python once The Beatles broke up.

 

[iluvparis]

The spirit is LSD right?

 

[Gough]

Pythons were pretty straight, Chapman's alcoholism aside, his spirit was gin.

 

[Rod Stroker]

People from the German city of Frankfurt are known as Frankfurters. Likewise, people from the German city of Hamburg are known as Hamburgers.

What are people from this German town known as?

 

[Cruyff14]

****ing bitte.

 

[the fly]

What are people from this German town known as?

Isn't that town in Austria?

 

[Catfish Alley]

I think there is a town on the east coast named Dildo.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

What are people from this German town known as?

Maybe f.u.c.k.s.

 

[GreyPower]

Malcolm Turnbull and Angela Lansbury are 2nd cousins.

 

[Moonwatcher]

The youngest person to give birth to a child was 5 year old Lina of Peru. The father never came forward.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lina_Medina

 

[Moonwatcher]

If the population of China walked past you the line would never end due to the rate of reproduction.

 

[akkaps]

The casinos that Las Vegas are famous for aren't actually in Las Vegas, they are in Paradise. This was done so that casino owners would not have to pay city taxes on the revenue from the casino.

The City of London and London are two different cities, each with their own mayor.

 

[Nothing]

If the population of China walked past you the line would never end due to the rate of reproduction.

So some of them are walking pasty whilst ****ing?

 

[wally funk]

The youngest person to give birth to a child was 5 year old Lina of Peru. The father never came forward.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lina_Medina

Jesus Christ. That's insane.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

Jesus Christ. That's insane.

She was born with a foetus inside of her.

 

[Moonwatcher]

She was born with a foetus inside of her.

Not according to the Wiki link I posted. Where did you hear that?

 

[Wallaby]

If the population of China walked past you the line would never end due to the rate of reproduction.

You would never reach the end, because if they were standing in a straight line - about 1/2 metre per person - the line would go 16 times around the earth.

 

[Moonwatcher]

So some of them are walking pasty whilst *******?

86,400 seconds in a day so if it took 1 second for each individual to walk past you, only 86,400 people would have to turn up on a given day. This would leave 1.357 billion people to stay at home having sex.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

Not according to the Wiki link I posted. Where did you hear that?

Can't remember where I read it but it's somewhere in the interwebs.

 

[Gough]

Centenary of Arthur Miller's birth today, if I had a car I'd mark the occasion by simonizing it.

 

[Milang_Panthers]

Not according to the Wiki link I posted. Where did you hear that?

Just looking at that wiki page it had a link to a list of other young mothers, there was a girl in africa in the 1880s who gave birth at the age of 8 years four months and then her daughter gave birth when she was 8 years 8 months making the original girl a grandmother at age 17!

 

[Illinois Nazi]

Can't remember where I read it but it's somewhere in the interwebs.

I saw it on both Facebook AND Buzzfeed so it's double-confirmed true.

 

[Van_Dyke]

I saw it on both Facebook AND Buzzfeed so it's double-confirmed true.

Facebook is Buzzfeed source I thought?

 

[worbod]

Elvis Aaron Presley really is dead.

 

[Gough]

Elvis Aaron Presley really is dead.

He might be now, but he was groundsman at my high school in the 80s.