Odd factoids

[bruce1530]

John ‘Johnnie’ Walker was a grocer in Kilmarnock, Scotland in the mid-1800s who specialised in blending tea before he decided to start blending whisky.

Subsequently, he became a pirate radio DJ.

 

[Poacher]

In USA, mobile phones are called cell phones because they were initially developed to be smuggled easily into prisons.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

In UK mobile phones are called mobile phones so they can be used in single occupancy speeding cars

 

[Drago]

In Albania the word 'car' means 'penis' This is actually true, and quite apt seeing how many of the latter drive the former here in the UK.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

The hour record for a bicycle first exceed 50km in 1938

 

[classic33]

Nikola Tesla drank Whiskey every day because it supposed it would make him live to 150*.

*Murder not included.

 

[classic33]

Diabetics’ urine can be transformed into whiskey due to high sugar content.

The leading whiskey drinkers in the world are the French.

 

[Drago]

The French named their race after Dawn French.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

The French named their race after Dawn French.

No no no no no and indeed non.

Dawn French was built by the French, and originally named Joan of Barking.

 

[Drago]

Ah, yes. As originally designed Dawn French was going to be the Pie-Full tower.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

No no no no no and indeed non.

Dawn French was built by the French, and originally named Joan of Barking.

Ah I see the confusion. It's Noah of Arc and Dawn is barking

 

[classic33]

Dawn Run, the Irish racehorse, would later be used to describe the early morning dash to the loo. Caught Short, Irish racehorse, would be a close run second.

 

[classic33]

Nine days before Christmas in 1965, the two astronauts, Walter "Wally" Schirra and Tom Stafford, aboard Gemini 6 suddenly sent an odd report to Mission Control that they saw an "unidentified flying object" about to enter Earth's atmosphere, traveling in the polar orbit from north to south. They interrupted the tense report with the sound of “Jingle Bells” with “Wally” Schirra playing a small harmonica and accompanied by Tom Stafford with a handful of small sleigh bells they had smuggled aboard for that very occasion.

 

[Chris S]

Somebody about a mile from me has weeds growing through the artificial grass in their front garden.

 

[kynikos]

Somebody about a mile from me has weeds growing through the artificial grass in their front garden.

Weeds spread at the rate of one furlong per year so you're OK until 2027.