Odd factoids

[Drago]

The Toyota iq is very short.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

The Aston Martin Cygnet was an ugly duckling that never grew up.

 

[classic33]

Giving a pair of scissors or knife as a gift is considered bad luck as it said it would cut the friendship in half. To avoid bad luck in the relationship, the gift recipient should give a coin as to "pay" for the gift. It is common for the gift-giver to include a penny, often taped to the blade of the knife, which the gift recipient is to return as "payment".

 

[Bonefish Blues]

People are strongly advised to buy their own cutlery as it's too effing difficult to gift it safely.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Pitch forks are in fact just giant forks used in the days when humans were 12 feet tall.

 

[classic33]

It is estimated that millions of trees are planted by squirrels that buried their nuts who then forget where.

 

[Drago]

Grey squirrels are vermin and I shoot them.

 

[raleighnut]

Grey squirrels are vermin and I shoot them.

Imported Vermin at that.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Anyone watching the US Open will have noticed that the venue Flushing Meadows is named after WC Fields who was a big tennis fan.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

It’s rarely good cycling weather when the kite surfers are having a ball.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

When the surfers are crying into their milkshakes. Now that is great cycling weather!

 

[classic33]

A German scientist named Justus Liebig began experimenting with brewer’s yeast in the 1880s. It was turned into a spread in Burton in 1902, when the Marmite Food Company Limited was formed. The name Marmite derives from a type of French dish, and initially Marmite was sold in earthernware pots. However, since the 1920s it has been supplied in its signature glass jar.

 

[Drago]

Marmite was accidentally invented by Justice Winkybig, who was attempting to develop a cheap, environmentally friendly asphalt substitute for the French army to retreat on.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Justice Winkybig was the biggest winker on the bench.

 

[classic33]

Did You Know?
Among the ingredients of the original milkshake was whiskey! It also included heavy cream. It took more than a century to evolve into the milkshake as we know it today.