Odd factoids

[Ming the Merciless]

Christmas Day was originally in September but it clashed with the end of summer peasants revolt.

 

[classic33]

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

That's why eating too many of them will turn you the same colour. You'll have heard of William the Orange, he didn't believe it either. The history books have been changed to reflect this by changing his title from William the Orange to William of Orange.

 

[colly]

Slices of 'Nimble' were sold on the promise that they contained less than half the calories per slice than other breads.
Given that slices of Nimble were about 1% the size of a normal piece of bread they managed to get away with it.

 

[Drago]

Nimble sales faltered badly when it became apparent that it tasted like sheet.

 

[Threevok]

The motto of the Sheet Metal Workers and Welders Union is "If you can't beat them - join them"

 

[Profpointy]

Golden Wonder crisps are cut so thin, they only have one side

Wouldn't they be möbius crisps ?

 

[Threevok]

Wouldn't they be möbius crisps ?

I've never seen The Matrix

 

[Bonefish Blues]

The Mobius Strippers exotic dance troupe were quite en vogue for a while, and were renowned for their straight dealing, unlike many of their contemporaries, who could often be rather two-faced.

 

[classic33]

In folklore, Saturday was often viewed as the best day to hunt vampires, as this was the day of the week when they were restricted to their coffins.

It was also believed in the Balkans that if somebody was born on a Saturday then they could see a vampire that was invisible to others, and that these people were the best recruits to become vampire hunters.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

The D in famous film director Ridley D Scott's name stands for Diddley.

 

[classic33]

In Finland, each New Year family and friends gather to burn metal in a pan for a ritual called "molybdomancy". The Finns inspect the shadows the metal casts by candlelight, as those shapes are supposed to predict the future. Although, this metal is customarily called “tin,” it’s actually sometimes lead, which, among other things, is known to spark severe mental illness... that might explain why this ritual has persisted for hundreds of years.

And while that's all pretty well and weird, the Finns aren't alone: Ecuadorians burn paper-filled scarecrows, the Swiss drop ice cream on the floor, and people in Siberia plunge into frozen lakes while carrying a tree trunk -- all to ring in the New Year.

 

[colly]

In 505 years it will be 2525.

In the year 2525, if man is still alive
If woman can survive, they may find
In the year 3535
Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lie
Everything you think, do and say
Is in the pill you took today
In the year 4545
You ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyes
You won't find a thing to chew
Nobody's gonna look at you
In the year 5555
Your arms hangin' limp at your sides
Your legs got nothin' to do
Some machine's doin' that for you
In the year 6565
You won't need no husband, won't need no wife
You'll pick your son, pick your daughter too
From the bottom of a long glass tube
In the year 7510
If God's a coming, He oughta make it by then
Maybe He'll look around Himself and say
Guess it's time for the judgment day
In the year 8510
God is gonna shake His mighty head
He'll either say I'm pleased where man has been
Or tear it down, and start again
In the year 9595
I'm kinda wonderin' if man is gonna be alive
He's taken everything this old earth can give
And he ain't put back nothing
Now it's been ten thousand years
Man has cried a billion tears
For what, he never knew, now man's reign is through
But through eternal night, the twinkling of starlight
So very far away, maybe it's only yesterday
In the year 2525, if man is still alive
If woman can survive, they may find.

Just don't tell Greta.

 

[classic33]

If you were to buy all the presents in the Twelve Days of Christmas, at 2019 UK prices, it would cost you a total of £43,070.80

Buying in the US would have cost you $157,558.00(£118,001.49).

 

[Drago]

Greta Thunberg hunted the dodo to extinction, and eats only omelettes made from Condor eggs.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

One strand of spaghetti is called a spaghetto