Facts you made up

[Dr Koop]

Have you ever seen Darren Jackson and LaToya Jackson in the same room?

Yes, at the Scottish sportswriters annual circle jerk. I was commissioned by the Sunday Post's pornography editor to cover it. Fortunately, I did get to cover LaToya.

An interesting name, LaToya. I did laugh when I discovered that there's an American artist who goes by the name LaTrina.

[banana]

Due to gravitational force effects similar to that seen in tidal pull, grass dew always forms on the side of the grass blade that is facing the moon.

[Dr Koop]

The character of Mr Scott in Star Trek was inspired by Archibald McMillan of Knightswood in Glasgow. Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry met Mr McMillan, then 76, in 1947 while on a trip to the UK. The grandfather of nine was a boating pond attendant at Bingham's Pond near Gartnavel Hospital and had developed a rudimentary warp drive engine using his Austin 7, a box of fireworks, 20 Senior Service cigarettes and a pair of nylon stockings he'd traded for ration coupons during the war.

[Dr Koop]

When filming of Dr No finished, James Bond star Sean Connery auditioned for the BBC's adaptation of AJ Cronin's Country Doctor novel, better known as Dr Finlay's Casebook.

The part of Janet the housekeeper ultimately went to American-born actress Barbara Mullen.

[Weesiecodal]

Broth is the shortened version of the term braw thick soup

[Septentrional Wasp]

In France,1386, a pig was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.

[Kmeister]

The television was invented by Terry Venables, which is why it is often called TV.

Funnily enough Terry Venables was also at the forefront of the Transvestite movement.

[Albino Rover]

In France,1386, a pig was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.

The parents described the act as "horrendous", and the punishment as "delicious".

[Septentrional Wasp]

The parents described the act as "horrendous", and the punishment as "delicious".

[Stephen Malkmus]

The night isn't darkest just before the dawn. It is actually darkest just after sunset.

[banana]

Computer 'Mouse' originally stood for - Movement Operations in UI Screen Environments.

[TheScarf]

Saint Cyril and Methodius, 9th Century Byzantine Greek brothers, came up with the original idea for Fun House. Made famous by Pat Sharp and the twins Melanie and Martina Grant.

[Stephen Malkmus]

Kyle Falconer supplements his income by working as a Harry Styles lookalike, mainly attending teenage girls birthday parties in England.

[Andy_K_97]

Kyle Falconer supplements his income by working as a Harry Styles lookalike, mainly attending teenage girls birthday parties in England.

However, the charade often fails when he gets bored of their antics and starts to ask everyone "yous takin' gear?"

[Ya Bezzer!]

For many years Glaswegians could catch glimpse of a cycling giraffe called Dorothy on Glasgow Green where the animal was trained by a local animal trainer.

Dorothy was initially successfully trained to ride a tricycle, later a bicycle, but when she failed to grasp riding a unicycle owner Norrie Zimmermann had the animal put down.

The giraffe's skin was divided between the Rector of the University of Glasgow, the Lord Provost and the minister of Glasgow cathedral to be used to line robes of state, while the skinless corpse was left close the People's Palace for a period, as an act of charity on behalf of the stray dogs of Calton, until the surviving remains were stolen by gypsies in 1963.

[Albino Rover]

If you hold your nose you lose the ability to sing flat or sharp notes.

[Richie95]

If you sing Billy Joel's 'We didn't start the fire' backwards a blackhole will appear in the middle of Spain, which will erase any of their history for the last 66 years causing them to relive life from 1949.

[D.A.F.C]

Samuel L Jackson and Lawrence Fishburne are the same person and have been under investigation from the IRS since 1984.

[Unleash The Nade]

The song " Ye Canny Shove Yur Granny Off A Bus" was penned by the grandson of the late Mags Haney, after he tried to do this to her and then spent 4 weeks in intensive care after his failed attempt

[Weesiecodal]

Long faced Scots pop star BA Robertson of Bang Bang fame is the half brother of former UN Secretary General Lord George Robertson.

Ah now, Did you know that said George Robertson has the corners of his mouth sewn up as a child to stop him telling lies? His mother told him that if he continued to tell lies, more and more would be sewn up until his gub was completely shut. This is why he has such a wee mooth.

Unfortunately, he became a politician, so the whole lying thing continued