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Scotland said:
Not really trivia but I never ever heard a white South African (and I know more than I'd like to) say Madiba until 2013.
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I would imagine seeing as they fled the country upon his election it wasn't until his death that they could pretend to respect him and no longer felt compelled to say "Ach but he was a terr man." everytime someone mentioned his name. It's a good thing you do insulating the rest of the country from these people.
 
Gough said:
I would imagine seeing as they fled the country upon his election it wasn't until his death that they could pretend to respect him and no longer felt compelled to say "Ach but he was a terr man." everytime someone mentioned his name. It's a good thing you do insulating the rest of the country from these people.
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We have a great African habitat at the zoo. Elephants, rhinos, giraffes... the whole bit.

Little do most people outside WA know that we have a separate enclosure 25km North of the city for Afrikaaners.

Unfortunately it's a lot more difficult to breed rhinos...
 
Thought I'd throw in a few to resurrect the thread.

Today - Animals!

1. Bluebottles that sting you at the beach when you swim into them or tread on them are actually made up of 4 different animals. The float (bubble) is one kind, the tentacles are another, the digestion is another, and the reproductive organs are another.
2. Turritopsis dohrnii is known as the Immortal Jellyfish because a) it's a jellyfish and b) it doesn't die. It regenerates.
3. The African Hairy frog can create claws by breaking the bones in its feet and projecting the broken bones through its skin. It is also colloquially known as the Wolverine frog.
 

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Charles Lightoller, the Titanic's Second Officer, was the most senior officer to survive the disaster, with the Captain, Chief Officer and First Officer all lost at sea. He was still on board as the ship went under, but was able to swim to an overturned lifeboat and cling on. He was also the last Titanic survivor to be rescued, being the last man to leave Boat 12, the last lifeboat picked up by the Carpathia that morning.

The Titanic was just one of four serious maritime incidents Lightoller encountered in a long career at sea. He was a crewman on the barque the 'Holt Hill', when it was shipwrecked by running aground on an uninhabited island in the Indian Ocean in 1889, the crew rescued and taken to Adelaide. Not long after he was serving on a windjammer called 'Knight of St Michael' when he and the crew encountered one of the greatest fears at sea - fire, when the cargo of coal caught alight, but fortunately extinguished. Then of course was the Titanic in 1912, then in 1918 when serving in World War 1 and commander of the HMS Falcon when it sank in heavy fog in the North Sea after colliding with another ship.

In 1940, Lightoller, by then long since retired from the sea, distinguished himself in another famous maritime incident, the Dunkirk evacuation during World War 2.

However, Lightoller would meet his end in another famous disaster, this one not connected with the sea. In December 1952, more than 40 years after the Titanic sank, Lightoller was living in London and became one of thousands of victims of the infamous London smog, which blanketed the British capital for over a week killing over 4000 during the event, and an estimated 6000 from heath problems after the smog finally lifted.
 
Some famous people are celebrating their birthdays today.

TV Presenter & radio host Jonathon Coleman is turning 16, comedian Frank Woodley from Lano and Woodley is turning 13, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez is turning 12, Collingwood 2010 premiership player Brent Macaffer is turning 8 and New Zealand tennis player Claudia Williams is celebrating her 6th birthday today.

A rare female serial killer Aileen Wuornos was born on 29th February 1956. She died in 2002, but even if she was still alive today I think she might be disappointed when nobody turned up to help her celebrate her Sweet 16.
 
Family Matters character Steve Urkel, played by Jaleel White, is a classic example of a breakout character. The nerdy nuisance was initially written on the sitcom as a recurring character to annoy the Winslow family with his antics, especially the father Carl, but he stole the show with such strong positive reaction from viewers and became the show's main character during the early 1990s.

So popular was Steve Urkel that the character appeared on two other sitcoms in early 1991. These were Full House where he is visiting relatives in San Francisco and annoying the Tanner family in the process, and in the forgotten sitcom Step by Step in its early days, where a paragliding mishap sees the bumbling Urkel turn up in the family's garden, quickly outstaying his welcome.

It is entirely believable that Family Matters, Full House and Step by Step would exist in the same TV universe - all are part of the Miller Boyett group of sitcoms that were popular in the 1980s and 1990s and had similar audiences. However, this came undone three years later when Full House actor John Stamos had a guest role on a 1994 episode of Step by Step, playing not his Full House character Jesse but himself. This would have been okay had he not mentioned his Full House acting role, establishing that on Step By Step Full House is a fictional show and thereby creating a paradox.
 
sorted said:
Made me wonder about babies born across midnight on New Years Eve. They can take a while to push out, so do you go for the start or the end? They would get a DOB of 31/12/2019 or 01/01/2020. Reckon the 2nd one is more cool.

Kids born on 2nd of Feb this year will have a cool DOB also.
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I'll say you go for the whole completion. Fully out = born. Leads to trivia your time on your birth certificate is actually when your birth is registered not time of birth. So usually 20 or so mins once your tagged and logged so to speak. Then paperwork is done. Makes it interesting for anyone born round midnight. Generally you get the last day as that is when the midwife doc or nurse completes the paperwork and registers you. Which appears when the certificate is printed
 
The first thing ever bought over the internet was weed.
 
The spikes on the end of a Stegosaurus' tail had no name until scientists started calling them a 'Thagomizer' in honour of a Gary Larson comic (The Far Side).

Edit: here it is

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One of Australia's most iconic TV characters is without doubt Alf Stewart from Home and Away. He is the only original character from the soap opera when it commenced in 1988, and Ray Meagher, the actor who plays Alf holds the record for the longest character continuously appearing in an Australian TV show, his tenure now at 33 years.

Mr. Stewart is not a man to suffer fools gladly, and unfortunately for him the quiet coastal town of Summer Bay on the New South Wales Central Coast north of Sydney seems to attract fools like moths to a flame, all getting on Alf's nerves in various ways over the years. Alf's family has caused him plenty of stress during the show's run, such as his daughter getting pregnant while still in high school and his son making a bomb from directions found on the internet.

His sisters have also caused him some stress at times, and Alf has a number of sisters but no brothers. The best known was Morag, played by the late Cornelia Francis, who appeared many times as a recurring character and was in the main cast in the late 1980s/early 1990s. There is also Celia, a religious busybody spinster who was in the main cast early on but has returned in guest roles intermittently since then. A third sister, Barbara, was part of the main cast and returned a couple of times in the 1990s, but has not been seen in 20 years since then.

But what isn't commonly known is that there was a fourth Stewart sister - Debra - who in the show's early years was referenced but never seen or heard. The unseen character Debra never made an appearance and was eventually forgotten, not referenced for many years.
 

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