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Britain Children - Fun Facts

Rainbow Children's Program Innuendo - NOT Fake But A SPECIAL Version!!

February 4th 2009 20:50
end of the rainbow
Rainbow was a British children's television series, running between 1972 to 1992, and planned out as the British equivalent of Sesame Street.

In 1979, the cast and crew of Rainbow performed an Adult version, as shown below, solely for the viewing eyes of the staff for Christmas. It was never intended for public viewing, however in 1997, the Channel 4 programme TV Offal showed it, jokingly, as "the pilot episode".

The clip has since attracted many millions of viewers around the world on sites such as YouTube, leading people to believe that the episode was broadcast as a regular episode.

If you've never seen this before, then it's a must see - I had tears coming out of my eyes from laughing so hard the first time I saw it. And even if you have seen it, it's still funny as in my opinion!
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Great Britain's Last EXECUTION!

January 17th 2009 12:20
execution by firing squad
German spy Josef Jakobs was the last person executed on British soil on the 15th of August 1941 by firing squad.

The chair that he was executed in currently belongs to the Leeds Museum, however before it made it's final journey, a number of the executed man's relatives arrived, asking to see the chair.
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Writer Apologises To 6 Year Old For Below Par Story

October 14th 2008 09:25
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Beatrix Potter of Peter Rabbit fame once received a letter from a 6 year old child who wrote of his disappointment with her latest tale, the Tale of Pigling Bland.

The author then wrote a letter of apology to the child explaining that even though she had been quite ill at the time, her publishers had twisted her arm into producing her annual Christmas book.
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