Odd factoids

[classic33]

The earliest known curry recipe, for a chicken or rabbit curry, was given in Hannah Glasse's 1747 Art Of Cookery, “To make a Currey the India way”.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

The oldest part of your skeleton is no more than 11 years old.

 

[Drago]

Skeleton keys are made from real skeletons, usually from the bones of executed murderers.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

The Skeleton coast is where skeletons go for their beach breaks

 

[classic33]

The only bone in the human body not connected to another is the hyoid, a V-shaped bone located at the base of the tongue.

So it may be possible to break your tounge.

 

[Jenkins]

All Vesta curries contain exactly 24 sultanas

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Swan Vesta curries are owned by the Crown Estates and contain real swan.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Time travel is only possible if riding a yellow Raleigh Chopper backwards at 89 mph with cards in the rear spokes.

 

[Drago]

Raleigh Choppers are made from old melted down axes.

 

[classic33]

Raleigh Choppers are made from old melted down axes.

They use the ones that didn't make the cut.

 

[Drago]

They use the ones that didn't make the cut.

Post of the day arrives early!

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

The Postman doesn't knock twice. He never knocks at all. That's why we have wheelie bins.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

The American Revolutionary War wasn't. It was war just like the rest of them

The American Revolutionary War was so named as it went round and round and round.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

In the early days of our gym they couldn't afford real weights. So they started out with red grapes and hoped, as members started weak, no one would notice. Eventually the gym strong man became the first to crush a grape during the annual strength completion. This is the true origin of the phrase "oh, I could crush a grape" and it marked the transition to apples, oranges and much weightier items.

 

[Drago]

The Gym was originally called The Jim, as they were invariably run by ex sailors named James. Thus, when Keith Vaz told his Missus that "I'm going up Jim", he was, strictly speaking, telling the truth.