Topic: Gulleysucker's 'well I never knew that' thread

[TepidT2O]

Cheers!

[bradders1011]

I never put together that Nurse Gladys Emmanuel was Auntie Mabel.

[Kenny's Jacket]

I never put together that Nurse Gladys Emmanuel was Auntie Mabel.

Ive just got onto Donna from The Office is Lucy Bretton from Not going Out

[BarryCrocker]

The 21-metre rule is, according to the Stirling prize-winning architect Annalie Riches, a bizarre hangover from 1902, originally intended to protect the modesty of Edwardian women. The urban designers Raymond Unwin and Barry Parker walked apart in a field until they could no longer see each other’s nipples through their shirts. The two men measured the distance between them to be 70ft (21 metres), and this became the distance that is still used today, 120 years later, to dictate how far apart many British homes should be built.

[Crosby Nick]

Ive just got onto Donna from The Office is Lucy Bretton from Not going Out

I will not have her tunnel bandied about this office, willy nilly.

Made me feel old when I realised that as well!

[Ray K]

The publishers of the Astounding Science Fiction magazine knew that the US government had started a major scientific project in New Mexico during WWII because so many of their subscribers suddenly changed their postal address to Los Alamos, New Mexico.

They received a visit from the FBI when they published a story in 1944 called Deadline, describing the use of Uranium-235 in a nuclear fission atomic bomb.

[AndyInVA]

If you have an iPhone and charge it standing on its edge horizontally the display becomes like an alarm clock.