Did you know?

When you see a statue of a soldier on a horse in a park: if the horse has both front legs off the ground, the rider died in battle; if the horse has just one front leg off the ground the rider died from wounds they got in battle; and if the horse has all 4 legs on the ground the rider died from natural causes.
As is Wellingtons in Hyde Park, but that wasn't his horse, did you know that one? ...mr g

Following independence, the United States government voted to adopt an official language. English won (obviously) but only by ONE vote over German.
Then they made a right mess of it with ca. 1300 spelling mistakes in the first English Dictionary printed in the US. As far as I know, the mistakes are still in it. ...mr g

Admiral Greig founder of the Russian navy & John Paul Jones founder of the American Navy were both born in Scotland.

Scotland is the only country in the world where Coca-Cola is NOT the top selling soft drink.
Top selling drink is probably Irn-Bru then? Hope I spellt that correctly otherwise i'll be getting a Scottish Kiss. But thats ok, I'll fight them in York where we are still allowed to shoot Scottish people, wait for it, with a bow and arrow but not on Sundays. Looks like the fights off then, I can only make it on Sundays :-) ...mr.g

if u didn't have a thumb your Big Mac would fall off.

The only survivor of the Munich Air Disaster still in football? John Lukic (his mother was a nurse on the plane who was pregnant with him at the time.)
Don't think this one is True or do you know better? ...mr g (Leeds fan)