Olympic Games History 1896 -2012
Olympic Games History 1896-2012. A list of the dates and venues for the Modern Olympic Games.
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Funny Drinking and Beer Trivia
Funny drinking and beer trivia. The first recruiting station for US Marines was a bar. The oldest known recipe – is for beer!
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Funny Pirate Jokes, Yarns and Trivia
Funny pirate jokes, yarns and trivia. Pirates believed that wearing ‘pierced’ earrings would improve their eyesight – strange Will and Guy think.
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Olympics Trivia
Olympics Trivia. French athletes bent the rules at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics: despite ‘Prohibition’, they were allowed wine with their meals.
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Funny Christmas Trivia and Facts
Funny Christmas trivia and facts. 7 out of 10 British dogs get a Christmas gift. A traditional Christmas dinner in early England was the head of a pig prepared with mustard.
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Tour de France Trivia
Tour de France trivia. Three – average number of chains worn out by a single rider. 792 – total number of tyres used by the peloton.
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The History of the Olympic Games 1896 -2012
The History of the Olympic Games 1896-2012. It is universally accepted that Baron de Coubertin masterminded the Modern Olympic Games.
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Tiger and Piglets – Strange But True
Tiger and Piglets – Cubs or Chops? Three tiger and piglet interesting facts and stories from Thailand, California and China
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History of Halloween – October 31st
Halloween can be traced back to Celtic festivals which celebrated the new year on the eve of 31st October.
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Amazing Coincidences
Amazing coincidences. Lightning strikes twice. Scarcely believable coincidences, for example Hernán Cortés arriving in Mexico fitted a Mayan Prediction
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Twelve Strange But True Stories
Will and Guy’s true stories. Selection of strange but true stories for January. Among the items left behind at Osama bin Laden’s headquarters in Afghanistan were 27 issues of Mad Magazine.
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Funny Historical Truths
Will and Guy’s humour, funny historical truths. When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and off the roof. Hence the saying ‘It’s raining cats and dogs.’
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Strange But True Story – Giant Pumpkin Picture
Will and Guy’s Humour. We have the giant pumpkin picture of the champion 88 stone fruit.
