Odd factoids

[Dave7]

Clarkes starting making school shoes in 1642, before there were any actual schools. After they had filled 14 warehouses with school shoes that nobody wanted Mr Clark (the elder) had a light-bulb idea and started to build schools, with the first rule being "all children must wear proper school shoes". The rest is history.

 

[bruce1530]

However, Mr Clarke (the elder) was only partially literate, and a mis-spelling in his First Rule of Schools - the requirement for proper footwear - left an opening for Dr Scholl, a german manufacturer of wooden sandals.

 

[classic33]

The world’s highest school is situated in Phumachangtang, Tibet, at a height of 5,373 metres (17627.95276 feet) above sea level.

 

[Drago]

Tibet is a small village atop a hill in Yorkshire. It's true. Want t'bet?

 

[bruce1530]

Tibet was named in honour of Norman Tebbit.

 

[colly]

The word 'Arch' is pronounced 'Tebbit' in medieval street slang.

 

[classic33]

More thunderstorms occur during the summer than at any other time of the year.

The warmth of summer often provides the perfect conditions of rising air and moisture required for the creation of thunderstorms.

They are most likely to occur in the south east of England.


Milton Keynes' central road is designed so that when the sun rises on the Summer solstice, it shines straight down Midsummer Boulevard and reflects in the glass of the train station.

 

[bruce1530]

Thunder and lightning was invented by Benjamin Franklin in 1752

 

[classic33]

Thunder and lightning was invented by Benjamin Franklin in 1752

And the Norse God Thor?

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Thor was the God of Melting.

 

[roadrash]

now you are being silly, thunder is god moving his furniture about dragging it across the floor, I know coz my mum told me when I was about 4yr old

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Standing under a tree during a thunderstorm turns you into a spark plug.

 

[Drago]

Spark plugs were invented as a cruel joke, when Ernest P. Champion decided to fit them to his mates diesel engine to blow it up. By a happy accident, it made the diesel engine better.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Diesel was originally a Scottish drink invented by Rab C. Nesbit. After discovering it's rocket fuel properties it was rapidly adopted as a polluting agent.

 

[Drago]

Pollution was invented by the second head of the Nazi party, Simon Wiesenthal, who invented the coal powered fridge in 1988.