Odd factoids

[colly]

One strand of spaghetti is called a spaghetto

Well how about that...l always thought it was a spaghettini.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Well how about that...l always thought it was a spaghettini.

A single piece of confetti is a confetto

 

[Threevok]

There is no plural for Italian sounding ice cream, as there's just one cornetto

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

There's a Starbucks coffee cup in every scene of the film Fight Club

 

[Bonefish Blues]

There's a Starbucks coffee cup in every scene of the film Fight Club

No wonder they were so angry - couldn't get a decent cup of coffee for love nor money.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

No wonder they were so angry - couldn't get a decent cup of coffee for love nor money.

And they had to fight for it

 

[Bonefish Blues]

And they had to fight for it

Loser got to drink it

 

[classic33]

Cows moo with regional accents.
"In small populations such as herds you would encounter identifiable dialectical variations which are most affected by the immediate peer group," explains one UK professor in an article for BBC News.

In other words: You can take the cow out of Yorkshire…

 

[classic33]

Britain's Secret Intelligence Service once hacked an Al-Qaeda website and replaced the bomb instructions with a cupcake recipe.

 

[colly]

Fact: Dr Who on the BBC, is absolutely the biggest pile of story telling s h i t e the world has ever seen.

This is undenieable.

Climate change, the virgin birth, alien abductions can all be debated and argued. The above fact can not.

 

[Drago]

Britain's Secret Intelligence Service once hacked an Al-Qaeda website and replaced the bomb instructions with a cupcake recipe.

The "ham sandwich" hack in the ISIS website went down well.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Beyonce was briefly engaged to Roy Castle and was going to appear on Record breakers. She broke it off when she realised she would've been a Beyonce Castle

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Mr T from the A Team was only ever called that in Yorkshire. Everywhere else in the world he was known as Mr The

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

During the filming of an episode of Wish You Were Here, Judith Chalmers got barred for life from a club in Ibiza after head-butting a bouncer

 

[Drago]

Judith Chalmers was an illegal immigrant.