Odd factoids

[Ming the Merciless]

Anne Boleyn invented ten pin bowling. Another .Tudor invention lost for hundreds of years.

 

[Kempstonian]

Frank Sidebottom had to have a special saddle on his bike.

 

[Kempstonian]

Can't you leave your bike elsewhere?

Maybe he has no choice? You do get attached to these things. Especially when somebody puts super glue on your saddle.

 

[classic33]

Was there something about the Tudors?

Jane Seymour was known as the battle axe of Tudor times

She also invented binoculars, hence the surname.

Anne Boleyn invented ten pin bowling. Another .Tudor invention lost for hundreds of years.

Mary Queen of Scots was the first woman to play golf at St. Andrews.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Was there something about the Tudors?

Mary was a Stuart

 

[classic33]

Mary was a Stuart

Cousins though.

 

[classic33]

Over 2,500 left-handed people are killed each year. Usually attempting to use something designed for right-handed people.

 

[bruce1530]

The Tudors invented crisps

 

[colly]

King Henry 8th perfected chops.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Cousins though.

Once removed, she still was not a Tudor

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Henry 8th real name was Dave Side Bottom but that was not considered a kingly name.

 

[gaijintendo]

Harry Front Bottom was a typo in the 1970s.

 

[classic33]

The average four-year-old child asks 450 questions a day.

 

[Kempstonian]

The average four-year-old child asks 450 questions a day.

99.9% of four year old children's questions are answered with "Go and ask your father/mother"

 

[NorthernDave]

Was there something about the Tudors?

The Tudors invented crisps

King Henry 8th perfected chops.

They also had a band of 10 faithful retainers from Eastern Europe who were such fierce fighters that they were reputedly the equivalent of the swords of a thousand men.

They were known as the Ten Pole Tudors.