h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

On the other hand...Alexei Sayle:

"Jean-Paul Sartre? Best centre-half West Ham ever had. Talk about dead ball situation? Fahhhkin' 'ell! He could prove the bleeder never existed!"

There were 7 Cleopatras, but the only one anybody talks about is Cleopatra VII. She had a daughter by Mark Antony called... Cleopatra! (Cleopatra Selene, actually! )

Cleopatra VII could speak 9 languages, including Egyptian. She was the only Ptolemaic pharoah who could speak Egyptian. (Ptolemaic means 'descended from Ptolemy', the man who 'inherited' rule of Egypt when Alexander the Great died.)

Did she have the scrolls?

No, it's just the way she was depicted in the murals.

Sacha Distel started in show business as a Jazz Guitarist.

Ah, yes, I remember that... (My brother had a lot of videos of Alexei Sayle, and that's on one of them.) Brilliant!

I hated class

Eh?

If I remember rightly - didn't Julio Ingelsias used to play in goal for Real Madrid?

JJ Williams played violin for the Welsh National Youth Orchestra

Lucille Ball was NOT a redhead naturally. (Whether she dyed the carpet too I don't know.)

Of course she did act like one.

Cannibals called 'white men' "long pig"; apparently we taste the same

Norman Cook has appeared in the UK charts under more different names and with more different acts than any other artist.

The rickshaw was invented in Japan...


Ok... you probably thought you knew that...

It was invented in 1869 in Yokohama to be precise...

So?...

It was invented by an American Baptist Minister named Reverend E. Jonathan Scobie to transport his invalid wife.

Sauted cats taste like rabbit - but a bit more bitter

At the battle of Dreux in 1562, part of the French Wars of Religion between Catholic and Huguenot Protestant forces, the commanders of both armies managed to somehow get themselves captured by the opposition at the same time.

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Eeeeuuuuwwww....

Ancient Egyptian pharaohs wore clothes made with thin threads of beaten gold, some had 500 gold threads per inch of cloth.

In Queensland, Australia, it is a constitutional law that all pubs must have a railing outside for patrons to tie up their horse.

One breeding pair of non neutered/spayed cats, mathmatically (neglecting mortality rates), can be responsible for over 4.5 million cats in 7 years! (4,510,842 by my numbers).


Using normal mortality rates... that number comes down to 6,188!



Sorry, this isn't Useless...

Spay or Neuter your cats!

(dogs too)