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Peter Sellers started the whole thing off when he appeared on BBC TV's Parkinson show on 28 October 1972. - Sellers said 'Not many people know that'. This is my Michael Caine impression. You see, Mike's always quoting from the Guinness Book of Records. At the drop of a hat he'll trot one out. 'Did you know that it takes a man in a tweed suit five and a half seconds to fall from the top of Big Ben to the ground? Now there's not many people know that!' '. It was not until 1981-82 that the remark really caught on. Caine was given the line to say as an in-joke in the film Educating Rita (1983) and he put his name to a book of trivial facts for charity with the slight variant 'Not A Lot Of People Know That!' in 1984.Cassell Companion to Quotations
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