Having just been watching TV, the phrase I’m going to need 30 pieces of silver was used going to into a scene where someone was “given up” for their offences. That got me thinking...
Odysseus/Ulysses is one of the richest characters in mythology. They are the same person, known as Odysseus in Greek, and Ulysses in Latin. 🏺 Who Ulysses (Odysseus) was Odysseus was the king of Ithaca...
Sweeney Todd is a fictional character and story, who was best known as “The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.” What it’s about? Sweeney Todd is a barber in Victorian London who murders his customers by sl...
Now I’m not a fan of abbreviations, acronyms and text speak, but reading this one did make me go OMG.The first recorded use of “OMG” actually dates back well over a century now and came about a long t...
A beautifully bizarre bit of general knowledge that not even some A grade history students will know. The world’s shortest war was the Anglo-Zanzibar War of 1896 ⚔️⏱️ 🕰️ How short? 📍 Where? ⚠️ What ha...
Believe or not the UK’s Smallest Town has a population of just 370. This is just another weird and wonderful bit of general knowledge brought to you by the team at PubChat Fordwich is a tiny historic ...
In the latest instalment of general knowledge you didn’t realise you needed to know… Did you know the = equals sign used the world over in maths and equations was invented in Wales? The eq...
Wales officially has more castles per square mile than any other country in the world – a whopping 427 of them. The largest stronghold is Caerphilly (pictured), a 1268 behemoth tha...
No, your eyes are not deceiving you. Today’s strange but true fact is that Scotland’s national animal is the 🦄 unicorn. Even though it’s mythical, the unicorn has been a key Scottish symbol for ...
Did you realise there are 30 Unesco World Heritage sites in the UK? No me neither, but a bit of research reveals it is true. A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a location that has been formally rec...
