Odd factoids

[Ming the Merciless]

Bill Gates was once a homeless person. He slept on the streets of Seattle and begged for money to buy food. One day, he met a computer programmer who saw potential in him and gave him a job. Gates worked hard and eventually became the richest man in the world.

 

[srj10]

Irish goalie Pat Bonnar invented Viagra.

 

[welsh dragon]

I’ll try again in 3022

Good luck 😆

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Garmin ridesr can live to 250 years

 

[roubaixtuesday]

When Bill Gates was richest man in the world, he paid for plastic surgery and a new identity, and trained in a new skill - tennis coach - too so he could escape to a new life.

He was, however, still stinking rich, so he named himself Pat Cash.

 

[Alex321]

An odd fact that everyone in 2022 shared with each other.

If you took your age and added the year you were born everyone would get the same answer of 2022 this happens only once every thousand years.

Actually, it happens every year - provided you do it after your birthday.

 

[welsh dragon]

Actually, it happens every year - provided you do it after your birthday.

I was given duff info

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Footballer Damien Duff named his son "information" in the hope that he'd be a bit less thick than his dad and he was known as "info" for short.

Unfortunately, every day at school during register, this resulted in "Duff, Info" being called out by the teacher.

 

[PeteXXX]

Duff had a plum job. In fact, he invented the recipe for Spotted Dick, too!

 

[srj10]

In 1690 Pirates invaded Kansas U.S.A. and renamed it Arkansas.

 

[Threevok]

The first record to be played on Pirate Radio was Arrgh Friends Electric

 

[T4tomo]

The first song played on the in-flight radio of the Wright Brother first powered flight was Status Quo's "Paper Plane".

 

[Threevok]

The first musical duo to cross the Atlantic were the Wrightous Brothers

 

[Ming the Merciless]

The Atlantic were vicious mobsters who lived in New Orleans. If anyone crossed them they soon had them singing to a different tune.

 

[Tribansman]

The Baltic terrorised the streets of Birmingham in the early 80s with their heavy use of garlic and three sided metal weapons. The Balti triangle remains infamous to this day