Odd factoids

[bruce1530]

Edwin T. Holmes installs the 1st telephone switchboard burglar alarm.

As a result, the theft of telephone switchboards dropped dramatically.

 

[david k]

The numbers on a roulette wheel add up to 666

Your viewing it upside down, it's 999

 

[classic33]

Your viewing it upside down, it's 999

Outside in, surely!

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Sharks have been around longer than trees

 

[Dave7]

There is a tree in America that is so big that they have put a 6 lane highway right through it. In the middle is a KFC and a Starbucks. There is planning application in for a Nandos but some of the locals are petitioning against it.

 

[ClichéGuevara]

There is a tree in America that is so big that they have put a 6 lane highway right through it. In the middle is a KFC and a Starbucks. There is planning application in for a Nandos but some of the locals are petitioning against it.

Pfft, they have branches everywhere.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

The most common street name in America is Second Street

 

[colly]

A little know historical fact is that Henry the Eight's second wife, Ann Boleyn, had a brother called Tenpin.

 

[classic33]

A little know historical fact is that Henry the Eight's second wife, Ann Boleyn, had a brother called Tenpin.

The picture that is commonly shown of Sir Francis Drake, playing bowls whilst the Armada sailed towards England, is wrong. It wasn't any version of crown green bowling, but the game that Anns brother had invented.

As it was still a fairly recently invented game, he wanted to finish it. Then he'd set sail to meet the Spanish.

 

[gaijintendo]

"Baby Shark" has been viewed almost 3 billion times.

 

[Dave7]

There is a hotel in Majorca (that we are staying in) that has some 300 rooms but somehow has at least one thousand pre-school age kids staying there, they all go down to breakfast at the same time as us and they all scream and shout at impossibly high decibel volume

 

[Ming the Merciless]

As a result, the theft of telephone switchboards dropped dramatically.

But theft of homing pigeons increases.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Nipples are actually grease ports for the human body. This evolutionary development has however been forgotten and many older models of human sieze up as a result.

 

[classic33]

The average human body contains enough fat to make seven bars of soap.

 

[colly]

If your body contains that much fat you probably need 7 bars of soap