Odd factoids

[classic33]

There are no reports of any Zebras or American Football Referees ever being run over by motor vehicles

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DsTaR-qUSoc

&
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-49914065

 

[Bonefish Blues]

You are less like to die while driving a Volvo XX90 than any other make or model of car.
No driver or passenger of an XC90 in the Uk has died while travelling in one.

No longer true since a death on the M6 (IIRC) only a couple of weeks ago We discussed on Volvo Forum.

 

[Drago]

Nag, nah, the body was planted after the crash by disgruntled SAAB engineers.

PS, I ought to join a Vulva forum but the VOC one is populated by nodders.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Nag, nah, the body was planted after the crash by disgruntled SAAB engineers.

PS, I ought to join a Vulva forum but the VOC one is populated by nodders.

Never a truer word.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Drago's Dutch rellies recently decided to connect with the C21st. Made the news, too:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-50054044

Family traits shine through across the miles:

"He had long hair, a dirty beard, wore old clothes and looked confused. He said he'd never been to school and hadn't been to the barber for nine years."

 

[Drago]

There was a copper named Fritzl. He got caught by his missus having extra marital relations, so she chucked him out. He rented a basement room from another copper and as a result the entire organisation knew him as Fritzl.

 

[Threevok]

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DsTaR-qUSoc

&
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-49914065

I watched that entire thing waiting for the truck and it never happend😡

PS: It said The Zebra hit the truck, not tuther way round

 

[classic33]

The ancient Saxons called October “Wintirfyllith” because it had the first full moon of the winter. October is associated with autumn.

It ends on the same day of the week as February every year and January in common years only.

 

[Drago]

Winter was invented by the communists as an austere version of summer for the workers.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

The Soviet Union introduced a four day week in 1929.
"Huzzah" cheered the workers.
Then they abolished Saturdays and Sundays, created a continuous five day week with rotating days off and replaced the names of days with coloured symbols.
"WTF" said the workers

 

[Threevok]

The Soviet Union invented paper napkins

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

The Soviet Union invented paper napkins

The Soviet Union never invented toilet paper - they just recycled napkins

 

[roadrash]

The Soviet Union never invented napkins - they just recycled

toilet paper​

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[classic33]

Marmite can only be sold in Denmark if a licence, to do so, is granted by the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration.

 

[Drago]

Denmark,ks not a real country, but is a breakaway region of Wales.