What do you know today, that you did not yesterday?

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TomahawkMike Oct 2017 11:40am, 26 Oct 2017 1,067 posts	0 TomahawkMike That the giant deer (aka Irish elk, but really it's a deer) lived on the Isle of Man. They have a skeleton in their fab museum in Douglas. 8.5ft antler span.
GlennR Oct 2017 3:05pm, 26 Oct 2017 31,421 posts	0 GlennR That red squirrels were responsible for bringing leprosy to Britain. Possibly: bbc.co.uk
Markymarkmark Oct 2017 10:58pm, 27 Oct 2017 5,984 posts	0 Markymarkmark Not quite such cute and fluffy Tufty Club icons all of a sudden, Glenn!
ChrisHB Oct 2017 11:12pm, 27 Oct 2017 15,532 posts	0 ChrisHB That there was a battle in Merstham (next to Redhill) in AD 893, and the local items named Battlebridge are named on account of it.
Hills of Death (HOD) Oct 2017 1:28pm, 30 Oct 2017 33,757 posts	0 Hills of Death (HOD) Humpty Dumpty was a story about a boy not an egg but got changed as its too distressing
Markymarkmark Oct 2017 2:12pm, 30 Oct 2017 5,999 posts	0 Markymarkmark HoD, that's another perfectly good myth shattered.
Wobbling Nov 2017 1:45pm, 8 Nov 2017 5,664 posts	0 Wobbling Ken Dodd is still alive.
Diogenes Nov 2017 1:49pm, 8 Nov 2017 24,983 posts	0 Diogenes (Yes, but Ken Dodd's Dad's dog's dead.)
Dvorak Nov 2017 12:20pm, 10 Nov 2017 14,636 posts	0 Dvorak Britain's first helicopter crash occurred in 1945 at Twatt Airfield. That indeed there was (fnarr) a Twatt Airfield (also known as RNAS Twatt). (In an odd twist, the helicopter wasn't really flying at the time, just attempting to take off. In fact, an odd twist was the very cause of the crash.)
TomahawkMike Nov 2017 6:51pm, 10 Nov 2017 1,076 posts	0 TomahawkMike Dvorak. I have very maturely informed my sons of that fact. Thank you.