Odd factoids

[jefmcg]

Doesn’t work for me or anyone else with a birthday in December, which hasn’t happened yet.

OK, you can stop dropping hints now.

Happy birthday to you (and Jesus - obviously - and my friend Pam and Noelle I went to school with)

 

[jefmcg]

In Terminator Genisys he actually says "Ouch my back"

True Terminator fact: In the original casting, Arnie was Kyle and Michael Biehn (I can't be arsed to google the spelling) played the robot. They had a chat, and - very sensibly - swapped roles.

 

[TVC]

OK, you can stop dropping hints now.

Happy birthday to you (and Jesus - obviously - and my friend Pam and Noelle I went to school with)

And my niece who was born on the 27th, and her parents don't even do an un-birthday for her.

 

[jefmcg]

And my niece who was born on the 27th, and her parents don't even do an un-birthday for her.

Well, no wonder. She ruined the Christmas/New Year break once, but never again!

(I've heard people born in October bitching about how it's too close to Christmas. They have no idea)

 

[bruce1530]

The Christmas Tree was invented by (and named after) Mr Arthur H Christmas in November, 1879, as a novelty. He never anticipated that it would be adopted as a seasonal symbolic decoration.

His wife, Mary, would send out little acknowledgement cards with every order, signing her name in beautiful copperplate writing. She never anticipated that these cards would become so popular.

 

[classic33]

Quick arithmetic trick

your age + the year you were born = 2017!

No!

 

[Drago]

Frizzy haired rock star and producer, Jeff Lynne, had his sunglasses glued to his head in 1957 as a schoolboy prank. Fifty years on and they're still there.

 

[bruce1530]

Isaac Newton invented gravity in 1687. Until then, people could float.

 

[Drago]

Isaac Newton invented the cat flap.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Isaac Newton invented the cat flap.

I had always thought he invented the flat cap. Silly me.

 

[Drago]

That was Andy Capp.

 

[Drago]

There is a region in Ethiopia called Fart.

 

[TVC]

That was Andy Capp.

Andy Capp invented gravity.

That's a shocker.

 

[ClichéGuevara]

There is a region in Ethiopia called Fart.

Isn't that Chicago?

 

[TVC]

The major contributory factor to gun deaths in America is American's having so many guns.