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

[HugoHackenbush]

Originally Posted by NIN

The Car Company Jaguar Motors once tried to sue my Father after he'd named his Garage "Wirral Jaguar"
his success as an independent had obviously rubbed up the main agents.

Not only had he registered the name with companies house for a longer period than the necessary period for a complaint to expire , but his retort in the court got the case thrown out was his argument that it was the name of the jungle beast long before it was recognized as a vehicle

Even worse, the Jaguar Car Company was approached by the Producers of the upcoming TV series "The Saint" starring Roger Moore. They wanted Simon Templar to drive a Jaguar and remarked about what wonderful publicity they could get if only Jaguar would supply them with a series of cars for free.

They were rebuked in no uncertain terms with the retort that every Jaguar then being produced was being sold in short order and there was in fact a back order for them, and they had no need for any more publicity.

He drove the white Volvo instead, whose sales then soared.

[Mal Hombre]

The Jaguar motor company was originally called The Swallow Sidecar Company,The name was changed after the Second World War,the intials were a trifle unfortunate by then.

[richardoe]

There is an unofficial ban on the playing of the music of Wagner in Israel.

[savage560]

The guy who sang "Montego Bay", mega hit song of 1970 was a white guy!It took me 40 years & youtube to find this out,as did a whole lot of other people too.They said Bobby Bloom sounded like he was "blacker than black" or he had a soulfull voice!

Look!...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6TUjV9piGA

or with "Oh What a Beautifull Morning" at the end

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbXds42ZOj4

[tygrkhat40]

The most populous US cities that have an area of less than 50 square miles (a little over 7 mi. x 7 mi.)

1. San Francisco, CA
2. Boston, MA
3. Miami, FL
4. Santa Ana, CA
5. Anaheim, CA
6. Buffalo, NY
7. Newark, NJ
8. Jersey City, NJ
9. Hialeah, FL
10. Rochester, NY

If Manhattan and the Bronx were independent cities they would be 1 and 2 on the list respectively. Also, all of these cities are smaller than the Walt Disney World complex in Florida.

[chris chunt]

did you know
the inspiration for the recent chart smash by daft punk " we're up all night to get lucky " was a band members lost cat

[NIN]

Originally Posted by chris chunt

did you know
the inspiration for the recent chart smash by daft punk " we're up all night to get lucky " was a band members lost cat

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGIbVF88PKs

[tygrkhat40]

Largest US Cities to not share a name with another world city

1. Seattle, WA
2. Fort Worth, TX
3. New Orleans, LA*
4. Virginia Beach, VA
5. Colorado Springs, CO
6. Anaheim, CA**
7. Hialeah, FL
8. Shreveport, LA
9. Lubbock, TX
10. Newport News, VA

* There is no other city with the English name New Orleans, but there is a Nueva Orleans in Colombia.
** There is an Annaheim in Saskatchewan, Canada.

[richardoe]

In the USA a city is a place with a population of more than 50,000, and cities get extra funding from the federal government. The city of Ninagra Falls NY is rapidly losing people and may soon lose federal funding.

In Britain a city is only a city if it has "letters patent" from the Sovereign.

[Mal Hombre]

Sir Frederick Treves,the Victorian surgeon now famous for His friendship with Joseph Merrick,the "Elephant Man" was a pioneer of abdominal surgery,performing Britain's first appendectomy in 1888,In 1901 He operated on Prince Edward,Later King Edward VII.Ironically He Himself died from peritonitis in 1923.