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

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DeeGee Jan 2013 8:34am, 30 Jan 2013 13,552 posts	0 DeeGee The quickest route via train from Grimsby Town to Milton Keynes on a Wednesday evening is via Stockport!
kjtindall Feb 2013 6:39pm, 2 Feb 2013 223 posts	0 kjtindall That's it was possible for Hartlepool to score twice in a game and for the scorers to be called Hartley and Poole. Bizarre.
macca53 Mar 2013 10:07am, 5 Mar 2013 17,430 posts	0 macca53 what the "proper" name of the fourth Sunday in Lent is (and when): Mothering Sunday is the fourth Sunday of Lent (aka Laetare Sunday) - so you can count backwards from Easter Day. (Easter, Palm, Passion, Laetare, Third, Second, First).
Jerboa Mar 2013 5:17pm, 6 Mar 2013 1,494 posts	0 Jerboa That my first Tenerife cycle ride wouldn't earn me any Fetchpoints because it was in February and it is now March and the rules have changed since I last played properly gutted!
fleecy Mar 2013 5:21pm, 6 Mar 2013 7,664 posts	0 fleecy Celtic round houses did not have chimneys. And they must have suffered terrible respiratory problems.
Jerboa Mar 2013 5:28pm, 6 Mar 2013 1,496 posts	0 Jerboa In fact my first four cycle rides in Tenerife earned me no Fetchpoints because they fell in February, even more gutted.
SpicedApple Mar 2013 5:47pm, 6 Mar 2013 6,712 posts	0 SpicedApple Macca, what about Oculi (third), Reminiscere (second) and Invocavit (first)? Passion Sunday is also known as Judica. I've learnt that ASDA started out as a co-operative (Associated Dairies).
Jerboa Mar 2013 9:34pm, 6 Mar 2013 1,501 posts	0 Jerboa I learned something fascinating whilst on holiday although it doesn't count as something I didn't know before today, banana trees walk, in a manner of speaking, not like Triffids, they can move up to about a metre in a year. And a fault line in a cliff in Tenerife is being monitored because if it should give way, a huge block of rock will fall into the sea and cause a tsunami in America
Night-owl Mar 2013 5:27pm, 7 Mar 2013 15,291 posts	0 Night-owl Bonnie Tyler is 61.
JamieKai chameleon Mar 2013 7:14pm, 7 Mar 2013 6,393 posts	0 JamieKai chameleon The potatoes that I bought the other day were more purple on the inside than they were on the outside...