Odd factoids

[classic33]

Owls Are Bad Omens

There's an Egyptian superstition that if you see or hear an owl, terrible news is coming. Yet another reason to not hang out in the woods at night.

 

[NorthernDave]

Kendall Jenner was named after her parents favourite mint cake

 

[classic33]

 

[Bonefish Blues]

The effect on the World's sewage system would take a fleet of 274,622,801 Dyno-Rod drivers to clear.

 

[Seevio]

If you ask Rick Astley for a DVD of the movie “Up”, he will not give it to you because he is Never Gonna Give You Up. However by not giving you Up, even though you asked for it, he is letting you down. This is known as the Astley Paradox.

 

[Chris S]

Phillip Schofield first realized that he was gay when he was given a wedgie.

 

[classic33]

KFC’s famous slogan “It’s Finger Lickin’ good” originated from a KFC’s manager retorting to a customer complaining about the actor licking his fingers in a commercial.

Which when they first opened up in China, was translated in Chinese as “eat your fingers off.”

 

[ClichéGuevara]

Tooth fairies are a smaller and more amenable subspecies of the larger and much more hostile bone fairies.

A German consortium of five of them started the first leisure parks. The term Funfair derives from fünf fairies.

 

[Chris S]

Americans put salt in everything, including chocolate.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Americans put salt in everything, including chocolate.

Sir is perhaps confused?

Americans put chocolate in everything, including salt.

 

[Darius_Jedburgh]

There is a River Nile in England. Lancashire to be precise.

 

[classic33]

You’d have to eat nearly 50 pounds of marijuana or smoke around 1,500 pounds of it in 15 minutes to induce a lethal response.

You’d probably be so high you wouldn’t even notice.

 

[classic33]

There is a River Nile in England. Lancashire to be precise.

Egypt is in West Yorkshire, as is Scotland.

Solomon's Temple isn't that far from the Walls of Jericho, both in the West Riding.

 

[classic33]

St Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury in 959, is thought to have begun this belief. Dunstan was a blacksmith, and when the Devil asked him to re-shoe his hoof, he nailed a horseshoe to it and caused him great pain. Dunstan agreed to remove the shoe on the condition that the Devil never entered a place where a horseshoe hung above the door.

Verdict
Common sense might suggest this is a load of old nonsense. Then again, have you ever seen the devil appear in a place where they’ve had a horseshoe hung up?

 

[ClichéGuevara]

Four times more people speak English as a second language than as a native one.