Odd factoids

[NorthernDave]

Those ropes that hold tents down when it's windy were invented by Guy Martin.
Channel 4 is planning a 3 hour documentary on the subject.

 

[classic33]

January was known as “Wulfmonath” by the Anglo-Saxons as it was the month hungry wolves came scavenging at people's doors.

 

[NorthernDave]

March was so named as it marks the start of the traditional marching season, when people would march right up to the top of the hill and then march back down again.

This was before the internet, obviously.

 

[classic33]

March was so named as it marks the start of the traditional marching season, when people would march right up to the top of the hill and then march back down again.

This was before the internet, obviously.

And everybody would be watching everyone else, making sure you went further than half way up or down.

Hence "Beware the eyes of March".

 

[Dave7]

Those ropes that hold tents down when it's windy were invented by Guy Martin.
Channel 4 is planning a 3 hour documentary on the subject.

Guy Martin's real christian name is Fawkes but he got fed up with being thrown on bonfires so changed it by deed poll.

 

[Threevok]

Guy Martin had his own line of cutlery.

 

[classic33]

Guy fawkes, the Knights Templar, a council and a former building society all have one building in common with the Freemasons.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I met a waitress in a cocktail bar

 

[classic33]

Christmas Eve is least likely to fall on a Tuesday. Although it is the second most day on which Christmas Day will fall, after Thursday.

 

[NorthernDave]

Christmas Eve is least likely to fall on a Tuesday. Although it is the second most day on which Christmas Day will fall, after Thursday.

Christmas Eve is on a Tuesday this year!

I met a waitress in a cocktail bar

Did you pick her out, shake her up and turn her around, then turn her into someone new?

 

[classic33]

Christmas Eve is on a Tuesday this year!

And Thursday next year.
Proof if proof be needed it's true!

 

[Drago]

Christmas Eve used to be in Easter.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Turkeys get angry at purple coloured clothing

 

[classic33]

Turkeys get angry at purple coloured clothing

No glasses available?

 

[classic33]

A turkey’s gender can be determined from its droppings–males produce spiral-shaped poop and females’ poop is shaped like the letter J.