Odd factoids

[Ming the Merciless]

If you get a map of Devon and Cornwall you'll find that it is flat.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Sweden is also flat. That inspired IKEA to their well known packing method.

 

[Andy_R]

The coast to coast ride from Whitehaven to Roker is, on average, flat.

 

[colly]

Did someone drop a Clanger?

 

[classic33]

You can be fined up to $1,000 for whistling on a Sunday in Salt Lake City, Utah.

 

[ClichéGuevara]

Posh punters don't go to flat races. They call them apartments.

 

[Chris S]

You can be fined up to $1,000 for whistling on a Sunday in Salt Lake City, Utah.

When I was a child park swings in Belfast were chained-up on a Sunday.

 

[classic33]

Terrified that a duck is watching you? Some people are. This is called Anatidaephobia.

 

[classic33]

Love carrots?
Don’t eat too many or you will turn orange.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

The great potato wars in Freuchie, Fife in the late 1970s culminated with the MacNivens burning the crops of the rival McNiven family. This was commemorated in the Big Country song, Fields of fire

 

[Ming the Merciless]

The first decade was AD 1-9, and first millennium 1-999 AD. But in modern times this has been forgotten and the date of when the third millennium started is hotly debated.

 

[classic33]

The song "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" was originally a threat. This ever-popular song was originally sung, loudly and repeatedly, by crowds of rowdy, lower-class servants demanding booze from their masters... or else. (I.e. "We won't go until we get some!")

 

[Chris S]

Christmas Day was just another working day in Britain until 1871.

 

[Drago]

In the Corbyn household Trotsky comes down the chimney and steals the presents.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Love carrots?
Don’t eat too many or you will turn orange.

Carrots were not originally orange but have been bred to be that colour.