Really TRUE odd factoids

[PeteXXX]

I told you that.

I'd forgotten about that from last December 🤦‍♂️

 

[T4tomo]

I told you that.

not if you speak in lower case though!

 

[T4tomo]

Rachel from Accounts has a urinal in her office toilet.

She also isn't allowed to get rid of it as its an object of historical significance.

 

[Beebo]

Rachel from Accounts has a urinal in her office toilet.

She also isn't allowed to get rid of it as its an object of historical significance.

It’s a listed building. So any changes would need approval.
Is she the first ever female Chancellor? It could be a 200 year old urinal.

 

[T4tomo]

It’s a listed building. So any changes would need approval.
Is she the first ever female Chancellor? It could be a 200 year old urinal.

Yes listed, yes first female Chanc. the Listing didnt thwart the attempted removal, it was the historical significance element - i.e Churchill etc had pissed in it - that did.

 

[matticus]

Rachel from Accounts has a urinal in her office toilet.

Who?

 

[markemark]

Who?

Is the rightwing nickname for the Chancellor of the Exchequer - Rachel Reeves. It is used to diminish her position as a minister to a person who works in accounts for a company.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Ostrich farms routinely have difficulties getting male ostriches to breed, because they often find their human caretakers more attractive than female ostriches.

 

[lenfield]

The Iranian conflict has led to a shortage of naphtha which is used in the production of coloured ink. A Japanese crisp manufacturer is now having to sell crisps in monochrome packets.

 

[lenfield]

Otter poo smells like jasmine tea.

 

[markemark]

Otter poo smells like jasmine tea.

Jasmine tea tastes like otter poo.

 

[Dave7]

Otter poo smells like jasmine tea.

And you would know that how ?

 

[Andy in Germany]

And you would kniw that how ?

I considered asking that, but do we really want to know?

 

[DaveReading]

And you would kniw that how ?

In a similar vein, my late mum always used to complain that communion wine tasted like ink.

 

[Andy in Germany]

The a couple of interesting facts about the "Royal Palace" in Berlin, now known as the "Humboldt Forum":

The completed building is less than 6 years old, and the baroque exterior matches the building that stood there until 1945. The government agreed to finance a new building on the site, but not a Baroque facade, so the facade was financed by public donations totalling 120 million Euro.