Fanciful Facts

[ArDee]

Toast always lands butter side down when you drop it.

Depends. What the floor is like, carpet or hard floor, how much you wanted it & can you make anymore.

Everybody knows that the chances of toast falling butter side down is directly proportional to the cost of the flooring.

 

[raleighnut]

Everybody knows that the chances of toast falling butter side down is directly proportional to the cost of the flooring.

So that explains why it always happens to me.

 

[machew]

David Bowie invented Connect 4.

Stuart Maconie while working at the NME started a rumor that Connect 4 was invented by David Bowie

 

[machew]

There is a silent P in bath.

There is no "I" in "Team" But there is an "I" in "Piss Off", there is also is no "F" in "Way"

 

[stephec]

Anyone driving slower than you and holding you up is a dithering fool.

Whereas anyone wanting to go faster than you is a bloody maniac.

 

[TVC]

The Umigoolie bird is so called because it doesn't have any legs.

 

[Smokin Joe]

Stuart Maconie while working at the NME started a rumor that Connect 4 was invented by David Bowie

And the one about Bob Holness playing Sax on Baker Street, plus a load more.

 

[ArDee]

There is no "I" in "Team" But there is an "I" in "Piss Off", there is also is no "F" in "Way"

Quite correct there is no "I" in "Team"; but, there is "ME"

 

[Andy_R]

There is no "I" in "Team" But there is an "I" in "Piss Off", there is also is no "F" in "Way"

Oh yes there is

 

[classic33]

 

[Profpointy]

The Umigoolie bird is so called because it doesn't have any legs.

and the farkawee are a tribe of pygmies whose ancestral lands are covered in 6 foot high long grass

 

[Toshiba Boy]

Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were born on the 12th February 1809.

 

[Profpointy]

Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were born on the 12th February 1809.

and wasn't it Abe Lincoln himself who said that you shouldn't believe everything on the internet

 

[marknotgeorge]

Fanta was invented to keep the Coca Cola bottling plants in Germany operating when supplies of syrup dried up due to Second World War trade embargoes.

 

[Dirk]

Queen Victoria was 4' 1" tall and weighed 16 st.