Odd factoids

[raleighnut]

The first camel in Australia was called Harry.

Did he escape.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

The first camel in Australia was called Harry.

Surely not - I heard it was Bruce.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

The first camel in Australia was called Harry.

What was it's crime ?

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

What was it's crime ?

The camel was innocent. First miscarriage of justice in Oz

 

[machew]

Mushrooms and toadstools are technically/scientifically the same thing.
The name 'toadstool' is just used for the inedible ones. The name was first used around the 14th century by people who believed that toads actually did sit on them and as toads were viewed as nasty 'orrible warty things.......then that was what made the toad-stool poisonous.

All mushrooms are edible, but some only once in a lifetime

 

[Dave7]

What was it's crime ?

It originally lived in England but stole a carrot to feed its family. Sent to Oz as punishment.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Carrots help you pee in the dark.

 

[machew]

Carrots help you pee in the dark.

Radar was the key technology to win the Battle of Britain against the Nazis. To protect their secret weapon, British Intelligence invented a propaganda campaign that claimed their pilots could see in the dark because they ate a lot of carrots.

 

[NorthernDave]

Radar was the key technology to win the Battle of Britain against the Nazis. To protect their secret weapon, British Intelligence invented a propaganda campaign that claimed their pilots could see in the dark because they ate a lot of carrots.

Following the war, the manufacturers of radar invented the key for disabled toilets.

 

[colly]

bread pudding was a popular dish with the lower classes.

Fact: Colly is lower class.

 

[classic33]

You say ‘eh’ whenever you don’t understand something.

Short, sweet but extremely effective, in Yorkshire uttering these two letters is the best way of signifying your absolute confusion.

 

[raleighnut]

You say ‘eh’ whenever you don’t understand something.

Short, sweet but extremely effective, in Yorkshire uttering these two letters is the best way of signifying your absolute confusion.

It's easy to confuse a Yorkshireman, tell him it's his round.

 

[Dave7]

Carrots and potatoes were originally developed by allotment keepers purely for the skin for making compost. They would peel them and throw the inside rubbish away or feed it to pigs.
It was much later that a poor Lancashire peasant called @Accy cyclist was forced to eat one and the cry was heard "ey up lads...them there carroty thingies were right good nosh"

 

[Accy cyclist]

Carrots and potatoes were originally developed by allotment keepers purely for the skin for making compost. They would peel them and throw the inside rubbish away or feed it to pigs.
It was much later that a poor Yorkshire peasant called @Accy cyclist was forced to eat one and the cry was heard "ey up lads...them there carroty thingies were right good nosh"

Heck! I've never been accused before of coming from Yorkshire in my life!

 

[Dave7]

Heck! I've never been accused before of coming from Yorkshire in my life!

Yorkshire.....Lancashire.....isnt that the same thing .
Whereas I am originally from CHESHIRE
But... I have edited it to save you having a heart attack