Really TRUE odd factoids

[classic33]

Ever wondered where "Wearing your heart on your sleeve" came from?

In the Middle Ages, single young men and women drew names from a bowl to see who their valentines would be. They would wear these names on their sleeves for one week.

Today, to wear your heart on your sleeve means being transparent with your affections.

 

[Blue Hills]

The typical average of results that come back from paternity testing labs with a "paternal discrepancy" log is 30 per cent.

Note - this doesn't mean that 30 per cent of kids are under the wing of fathers who mistakenly think they are theirs as there is of course a pre-selection of the sample afoot - tests tend to be done when there are suspicions/things to resolve.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

After most of Manchester United's starting line-up died in a plane crash in 1958, Real Madrid offered to loan out Alfredo Di Stéfano, the world's best player, to Manchester United. All the parties agreed, but England's FA blocked the loan, because "it would halt the progress of a British player"

 

[Chris S]

Frank Warren once asked a reporter, "If I'm a gangster then why haven't I been shot?"

 

[Blue Hills]

All the pubs in harlow new town's original development were named after butterflies.
No idea why.
Float like a butterfly?

 

[Dirk]

 

[Dave7]

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Now that is interesting.....I will borrow that if I may.

 

[Tribansman]

All the pubs in harlow new town's original development were named after butterflies.
No idea why.
Float like a butterfly?

In the early edition of the new town plan they were named after caterpillars

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Aboriginal Australians often traveled to Indonesia for trade, and when British explorers first visited inland Australia they met an Aboriginal man who had already learned English from his visit to Singapore.

 

[Durango Bay]

The same day Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped for the first time on the surface of the Moon, Luna 15, a Soviet robotic mission to collect samples from the Moon before the US, failed and crashed 344 miles away into the side of a mountain.

That is amazing. So much so I had to check if it is true or not and it definitely is.

 

[Seevio]

Koalas' fingerprints are almost indistinguishable from humans', even under a microscope

One would imagine the size would be a slight giveaway.

 

[classic33]

One would imagine the size would be a slight giveaway.

 

[Dave7]

Lots of talk about missions to Mars at the moment.
I was surprised to read.......
Earth to the moon....... 384 thousand km
Earth to Mars......200 MILLION km
Slight difference there

 

[Chris S]

Bill Gates flew to the 2015 Paris climate change conference in his private jet.

 

[matticus]

That is amazing. So much so I had to check if it is true or not and it definitely is.

It's a great story, isn't it? The best bit was that the ruskies checked with NASA that there was no risk of the two missions colliding; thus becoming the first proper international co-operation in space 👍