Do you have any useless trivia?

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Barbie Doll’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts

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Trivia is always useful - new threads! :wink::nerd_face::joy:

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And Ken’s is :point_right: Kenneth Sean Carson.

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There you go, I never knew that. :smiley:

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Here’s a good snippet … BSR, a past famous name in the record reproduction industry, is short for Birmingham Sound Reproducers :grin::+1:

Also Pifco is Provincial Incandescent Fittings Co.

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More mind numbing info :point_right: The first man made bricks first appeared during 7000BC.
They were discovered in southern Turkey at the site of an ancient settlement around the city of Jericho.

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The critical pressure and critical temperature of water and steam are 22Mpa or 3190 psi and 374’C. This is the temperature and pressure at which steam and water have the same density.

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Leonardo da Vinci hated cruelty to animals.
He would buy caged birds and set them free .

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The Odeon { as in the cinema } stands for Oscar Deutsch entertains our nation,he founded the cinema in1928,he was also British.

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How many hamburgers does McDonald’s sell every second?

Apparently 75 burgers every second. I wonder who counted that???

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Mt Kembla is 70 metres taller than Mt Kiera

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Probably someone with a PHD :slightly_smiling_face:

I think I will climb Mt Kiera then. :slightly_smiling_face:

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Laugh out loud… What a waste of an expensive doctorate :rofl::rofl::rofl: good answer @Bretrick :+1:

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Good choice, you can drive to the top of Mt Kiera, it even has a car park and a lookout.

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The famous 99 ice cream is so named because the King of Italy had an elite guard of 99 soldiers. When it was invented in the 1930’s the UK ice cream industry was dominated by ex-pat Italians.
LATEST NEWS! The latest flakes essential for the iconic treat have been rated as too crumbly.Confirming Cadbury’s continuing decline after moving to Egypt.

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I did not know Cadburys moved to Egypt. There are still factories all over the world. Does this mean they have changed the recipe for Flake, using inferior “chocolate”

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Probably.They are now American owned and they just can’t do chocolate properly.
What the Cadbury brothers would think of it all I don’t know!

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I thought Cadbury still had factories in Tassie and Victoria. I don’t mind Aussie chocolate, surely you’d expect it to taste different to the UK version because of the different temperatures it had to withstand?

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Correct, two in Tassie, three in Victoria and one in South Australia.
Apparently The Egyptian factory produces Flake, Crunchie, Breakaway and Oreos

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Violet Crumble for me, Aussie owned, Aussie made! Always preferred it to Crunchie

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