Odd factoids

[NorthernDave]

Dirk Benedict was a Benedictine Monk who made knives.

In addition to knives, he also invented a tasty breakfast of eggs, ham, muffins and hollandaise sauce.

 

[classic33]

No-yolkers are called "dwarf", "wind" [or, more commonly, "fart"] eggs. Such an egg is most often a pullet's first effort, produced before her laying mechanism is fully geared up. In a mature hen, a wind egg is unlikely, but can occur if a bit of reproductive tissue breaks away, stimulating the egg producing glands to treat it like a yolk and wrap it in albumen, membranes and a shell as it travels through the egg tube. You can tell this has occurred if, instead of a yolk, the egg contains a small particle of grayish tissue.

In the old days, no yolkers were called "cock" eggs. Since they contained no yolk and therefore can't hatch, our forebears believed they were laid by roosters.

 

[Threevok]

Pepperoni isn't only "a bit of an animal" - it's also an animal's bits

 

[Dave7]

he Benedictine Monks ran the first regular ferry from Birkenhead to Liverpool. The Monks would row over to the fishing village in Liverpool on market days, and offer the service to travellers.

The first monks took 14 weeks to cross the Mersey. Then someone invented oars.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

The first monks took 14 weeks to cross the Mersey. Then someone invented oars.

Some years later they invented boats

 

[Drago]

Some years after that they took the wheels off the boats, and rowed them across the Mersey.

 

[Dave7]

Some years after that they took the wheels off the boats, and rowed them across the Mersey.

Being religious they believed in "outside" help. One of their helpers was a nice young fairy.
To people in Liverpool she became known as .. .....the across the Mersey.

 

[classic33]

Being religious they believed in "outside" help. One one their helpers was a nice young fairy.
To people in Liverpool she became known as .. .....the fairy across the Mersey.

She never travelled well, always getting seasick. Her cries of "Mercy, Mercy" were misheard & mis-told over the years giving the Mersey it's name.

 

[NorthernDave]

Some years after that they took the wheels off the boats, and rowed them across the Mersey.

This was the first recorded time that wheels were removed from a vehicle in the area, starting a tradition that carries on to this day.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Benedict Cumberbatch used to be a monk.

 

[colly]

Thelonious Monk, one time ivory tickler, metamorphosed into Benedict Cumberbatch.

Thelonius was a very well rounded musician indeed. Especially given his middle name.

 

[Dave7]

This was the first recorded time that wheels were removed from a vehicle in the area, starting a tradition that carries on to this day.

In the 40s Germany actually invaded England.they landed at Dover and easily went through the country. They stopped in Liverpool over night then next mornig found every tank on bricks and with the tracks removed.
End of invasion.

 

[classic33]

The first ‘successful’ head transplant was carried out on Wednesday the 17th of December, 1963 by Robert J. White of Cleveland, Ohio, who attached the head of one monkey to the body of another. The monkey survived for several days, during which it tried to bite the experimenters.

 

[slow scot]

The first ‘successful’ head transplant was carried out on Wednesday the 17th of December, 1963 by Robert J. White of Cleveland, Ohio, who attached the head of one monkey to the body of another. The monkey survived for several days, during which it tried to bite the experimenters.

This monkey produced offspring before its demise; their descendants now live in Washington DC in a big white house.

 

[Threevok]

The first ‘successful’ head transplant was carried out on Wednesday the 17th of December, 1963 by Robert J. White of Cleveland, Ohio, who attached the head of one monkey to the body of another. The monkey survived for several days, during which it tried to bite the experimenters.

There's gratitude !!!

Which monkey was it ?