Odd factoids

[Seevio]

Until 1623, property disputes in what is now Romania were resolved by seeing which of the contesting parties could successfully invite a vampire over the threshold.

The practice eventually died, out despite its remarkably high accuracy, because the winner now had a vampire in his house with him.

 

[Drago]

The early fighter jet, the DeHavilland Vampire, earned its name as instead of firing guns at enemy fighters it would dash across and bite their neck.

 

[PeteXXX]

When old German fighter pilots explained that zis Fokker shot them down, they had to explain that the ze Fokker in question was actually a Schpitfire.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

The early fighter jet, the DeHavilland Vampire, earned its name as instead of firing guns at enemy fighters it would dash across and bite their neck.

The Vulcan bomber was named after Spock's death grip as that was the way it fought its battles. It lived long and prospered as a result.

 

[ClichéGuevara]

Schrodinger first realised that simple misinterpretations of quantum theory can lead to absurd results which do not match the real world, when he asked if a tomato was a fruit or a vegetable, and was told it depends if it's a cook or a botanist looking at it. He pondered what the tomato would be if the observer was neither.

He initially constructed his imaginary experiment with a tomato, but decided to use his now well known version of a box with radioactive material, because he hated cats.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Schrodinger was also perplexed whether it was pronounced tom-ae-to or tom-ah-to.

 

[Tribansman]

Famous linguist and historical phoneticist David Crystal smashed the 'tumarto-tuhmayto' dichotomy when he unearthed evidence from his Waterford home that the original pronunciation was 'toe-muh-toe' due to the 'lazy a' phoneme that was at its height when the word was coined.

 

[Drago]

David Crystal was in fact a cheap zircon copy. This came to light after an argument with Piers Morgan when Crystal tried to do a Clarkson on Morgan's jaw. Crystal's fist shatered into hundreds of pieces, leaving Morgan as the smug, smirking twit we all know today.

 

[PeteXXX]

Zircon is the proprietary name for the type of aircon that Z List celebrities buy to look cool.

 

[bruce1530]

Piers Morgan owns the copyright on "Smug, Smirking Twit".
He earns substantial royalties by licensing this persona to cabinet ministers, minor royals and football commentators.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Schrodinger invented the Spitfire Quantum. It excelled in aerial combat as the enemy was never quite sure where it was or how fast it was going. It shot down enemy fighters by collapsing the probability wave.

 

[ClichéGuevara]

Believers in a flat earth are exempt from travel restrictions during the covid crisis, as it would be offensive to their belief system to restrict them due to a global pandemic.

 

[Threevok]

The Flat Earth Society is sponsored by Wacker Neuson

 

[Ming the Merciless]

The flat earth society live in the Fens. They’ve never been to the Alps or Himalayas

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

The flat earth society live in the Fens. They’ve never been to the Alps or Himalayas

They are still confused that the Ouse and the Nene flow to the sea. Mutterings of "Trivial Details" whenever it's mentioned.