Odd factoids

[Chris S]

A Mr God has been masquerading as both a Mr Yahweh and a Mr Allah and promised the same piece of land to two different people.

 

[classic33]

The curious history of our official bank holidays begins in 1871, when they were first recognised in an Act of Parliament authored by Sir John Lubbock. He was a banker who, it is said, was so keen on cricket he chose dates when village matches were played in his home county.

So tomorrow, raise a glass to Sir John Lubbock, the man behind the holiday, and cricket, the sport which inspired the dates of the holidays.

 

[Drago]

Mozambique is French for "sweaty, dirty, disease ridden sheet hole".

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Trump thinks Mozambique 🇲🇿 is a cure for Covid 19

 

[classic33]

Spelt out in Scrabble tiles, Mozambique would score more than any other one-word country.

It scores 34 points. Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan share second place on 30.

 

[classic33]

In the official Bond films (i.e. excluding Never Say Never Again and the early Casino Royales) there have been 1299 deaths. Bond is responsible for wasting 352 goons.

 

[classic33]

In a New Scientist article, Gordon Stanger estimated that 4,662 shots have been fired at Bond and 130 attempts have been made on his life.

 

[classic33]

End of the world
Wednesday, 11th November, 2020 at 12:30 (UTC-12:30)

 

[Seevio]

Squirrels need to fall 4800 miles in order to kill them. This is because it gives them long enough to starve as they can survive a landing at their terminal velocity.

 

[Jenkins]

End of the world
Wednesday, 11th November, 2020 at 12:30 (UTC-12:30)

At least I won't have to do my late shift then.

 

[classic33]

At least I won't have to do my late shift then.

Put it down as the reason why you'll not be in the night before.

 

[Drago]

Night was invented by order of Napoeon Bonaparte, leader of the ancient Greeks in 1922, in order to allow them to finally get some sleep.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Boney Parte was the first man to dislocate every bone in the human body.

He did forget how to put them all back again tho' as when he tried he had several bones left over. Everyone laughed so one of the bones was called the humerus. Also he swore at another bone so that was named the blas-femur.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Word says that after that particular episode he wrote the well-known song about the connectivity of the bones as an aide memoire, just to ensure it all went back together in the right order in future.

 

[classic33]

When baking bread, it was and still is common to mark a cross on the top, but maybe you didn’t know that this was said to “let the devil out”?

In Yorkshire, housewives used to swear that bread dough would not prove if they had a corpse in the house too.

If someone cut both ends off the loaf, the devil would be sure to fly over your home as well, so be warned!