The "Did you know" thread.....

[rustler]

London's Heathrow Airport handled on average in 2013, 191.000 passengers - a day!
A total of some 72.3 million people for the year, the busiest recorded, with an average of 1286 flights inward and outgoing per day!

It also handled over 1.5 million tons of cargo that year.

The site employs nearly 40.000 people.

[Mal Hombre]

Originally Posted by Jack Rabbit

I was in Meiringen (Switzerland) once and there is a big hotel that uses the slogan "Sherlock Holmes stayed here" or something to that effect. Of course the famous Reichenbach falls are near there, but still... advertising that a fictional character had a room there...?

The town of Whitby in Yorkshire does much the same thing,Their main/only claim to fame is that Count Dracula stays there briefly in the novel.

[tygrkhat40]

Tenth US President John Tyler (1841-45) still has living grandchildren. Lyon Gardiner Tyler, Jr. was born in 1924 when his father, Lyon Sr. was 71 and Harrison Ruffin Tyler was born in 1928 when his father was 75. Lyon Sr. was born in 1853 when his father was 63.

[rustler]

The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law, which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

[Greenman]

I noticed that the character of Martin Fowler in Eastenders is coming back with a different actor James Bye, but did you know there have been three other actors who played him. First in the 80s by David Scarborough, who later killed himself, then by Grange Hill and child actor Todd Carty. He later left the series(when diagnosed with AIDS-related illness but recovered) and was replaced by James Alexandrou - the character went on to marry Sonia -and this fourth incarnation by James Bye will arrived soon -it will look like marital trouble for him and his wife in on the horizon. That must be some kind of record-the same character played by 4 different actors?

[old alal]

Tracy Barlow is the same (Corrie) Christabel Finch was the first, then Holly Chamarette, Dawn Acton and now Kate Ford

Dawn used to have a sandwich shop not far from where I lived. She and her mum ran it.

Finally I have seen Kate's tits (On holiday, sorry no camera with me at the time before you ask) Not that this is relevant to this thread.

[Greenman]

Did you know there are two incidences of extra bits added to some songs. Here are two that I know of. The first is on Invisible Sun by The Police-right at the end(and it might just be the album version) you can hear Sting sing a line from musical film 'My Fair Lady' called 'Wouldn't It Be Luvverly' "All I want is a room somewhere, far away from the cold night air!" The song about Northern Ireland is pretty bleak as is the video-it can be heard at the end of the video too.

Second is Madness's 'Michael Caine' where right at the end of the song on the album and cassette version but not the CD you can hear Michael say "I think we got it there don't you?" Any other incidences of extra stuff tacked on to a song-I am sure you can think of others.

[tygrkhat40]

Originally Posted by Greenman

That must be some kind of record-the same character played by 4 different actors?

Well, there are the 6 actors who have officially played James Bond. And the 13 actors to officially play the Doctor. And 8 men to play Batman, 6 to play Superman...

[Greenman]

Yes true but I meant soaps-for instance Lucy Beale(Eastenders) was played by 3 different girls at varying ages, and in America they replaced Miss Ellie with another actress when Barbara Bel Geddes died. It does seem odd that you replace one actress with another when really you should kill off the character and bring a new one in. TV Execs and Film Producers eh?

Did you know(according to a recent drama Micro Men based on Sir Clive Sinclair inventor of the Spectrum computer and the ill-fated C5 and his then partner Chris Curry who would leave and go on to create the BBC Microcomputer for said organisation AND beat Sinclair to the Government contract) that he was reputed to have called Sir Alan, now Lord Sugar, and former owner of AMSTRAD computers, a "jumped up, East End barrow boy" - seems that particular jumped up barra boy hasn't done too bad has he. Sir Clive was knighted eventually himself.

[teaktop]

Christ that takes me back, was sharing a digs in London piss broke watching Eastenders with takeaway on knees , dot cotton mad son, Nick great character, what happened to him?