1. During the 1st Gulf War, the film “Carry On Up The Kyber” was one of the films that was deemed unsuitable for viewing on British TV. 2 .The song “Stay” by Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs, is the shortest song to top the charts in the USA. It’s one minute and fifty seconds long. 3. The Yakuza were operating in Japan over a hundred years before the Mafia were active in Italy. 4. A castrated male goat is called a wether. 5. The only acceptable anagram of the word Monday in Scrabble is dynamo. 6. The pupils of the eyes of the goat and the octopus are rectangular in shape. 7. I’ll never get why Ed Sheeran is so popular. 8. In a list of songs deemed unsuitable for broadcast during the 1st Gulf War by the BBC, Eddy Grant, Abba, Status Quo and Queen had two banned titles each. Elton John also appears twice; once as a solo artist and once in a duet. John Lennon appears three times – as a Beatle, a solo artist and as part of the Plastic Ono Band. 9. On the set of the film “Psycho” Alfred Hitchcock referred to actor Anthony Perkins as “Master Bates”. The Bates Motel still exists at Universal film studios though its location has been moved since the film was shot.
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