Odd factoids

[Ming the Merciless]

Keith Floyd was the father of Pink Floyd, after a drunken night with a lobster and knob of butter in the 50s.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Unfortunately the above is incorrect as Keith's knob (being butter) melted. It was a "hot" lobster tho'.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Jamie Olive Oil is the real name of Jamie Oliver. His great grandfather made a fortune when he bought the entire world supply. But in an effort to avoid an investigation changed his surname to Oliver

 

[Threevok]

Jamie Oliver once employed Elvis Costello to advertise his sandwiches.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Elvis Costello is the daughter of Elvis Presley and Lou Costello after a night of passion in Vegas.

 

[welsh dragon]

Of the world's 25 most deadly snakes, 21 Of them are in Australia

 

[PeteXXX]

With an area of 2,941,300 square miles, that means that there's only 1 snake per 140061.9047619 square miles.. Good odds at not getting flanged, I reckon!

 

[PeteXXX]

It is a fallacy that a baby rattlesnake once asked his mummy rattlesnake if he was poisonous because he'd just bitten his lip..

 

[Ming the Merciless]

With an area of 2,941,300 square miles, that means that there's only 1 snake per 140061.9047619 square miles.. Good odds at not getting flanged, I reckon!

You’re forgetting that the 15,102,395,984 next most deadly snakes are also in Australia. They just don’t brag about it.

 

[PeteXXX]

Male spiders in Australia, as males all over the world, also fail to close the toilet seat.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Ladies in Oz lift the toilet seat unlike other ladies around the world.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Most Australian female spiders are called Sheila

 

[srj10]

Jamie Oliver is banned from Australia after he demonstrated cooking a Koala on the barbie to celebrate Australia Day.

 

[DCBassman]

Of the world's 25 most deadly snakes, 21 Of them are in Australia

Of the world's 10 most deadly, ALL are Australian...

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Kangaroos discovered Australia in 234,000 BC, after floating on an ice berg from Antarctica, which they had decided was too cold.