Odd factoids

[twentysix by twentyfive]

The inventor of the Global Positioning System (GPS) is upset because it doesn't work. That globe just keeps moving on right round the sun.

 

[Andy_R]

Despite the inventor's intentions, Corn Flakes do not stop you masturbating

They do if you superglue them to your bits.

 

[Threevok]

They do if you superglue them to your bits.

Ah yes, a diet you can stick to

 

[matiz]

Sir Edward Elgar used to ride 50 miles on match day to watch the Wolves on this Sunbeam ,he also composed the first football anthem.

 

[Drago]

"Teddy" Elgar also wrote Eskimo Nell.

 

[classic33]

The first known football song, "The Dooley Fitba' Club" later known as "'Fitba' Crazy", was written in the 1880s by James Curran, it was meant for the music hall rather than the terrace.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

In an early version of the Sleeping Beauty tale, the prince doesn't wake her with a kiss, instead he has sex with her and impregnates her while she's asleep. The child she gives birth to lifts the curse

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

The child she gives birth to lifts the curse

It's the act of giving birth that wakes her as the sex was meh

 

[Drago]

In an early version of the Sleeping Beauty tale, the prince doesn't wake her with a kiss, instead he has sex with her and impregnates her while she's asleep. The child she gives birth to lifts the curse

And in the sequel the prince was arrested for rape.

 

[classic33]

Snow falls at 1 to 6 feet per second.

At least in the case of snowflakes with broad structures, which act as parachutes.

Snow that falls in the form of pellet-like graupel travels to Earth at a much faster rate.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Those who do not have time for exercise, will sooner or later need to make time for illness

 

[Ming the Merciless]

First rule of fat club - no one talks about fat club.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

The rain in Spain falls mainly on the ground

 

[Bonefish Blues]

The rain in Spain falls mainly on the ground

Plainly so.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Ah yes, a diet you can stick to

Finger food