Really TRUE odd factoids

[ClichéGuevara]

France's longest land border is with Brazil.

And for the same reason, the largest National Park in Europe, is in South America.

 

[ClichéGuevara]

The Food: Bigger Than the Plate exhibit at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London proudly displayed five types of cheese made from microbes collected from the armpits, ears, noses, and bellybuttons of British celebrities. "Suggs, the singer for the ska band Madness, best known in the U.S. for its 1982 hit 'Our House,' chose to be immortalized in cheddar," according to Smithsonian.

 

[classic33]

The first McDonald's Drive Thru was installed in a restaurant based in Sierra Vista, Arizona, located near the Fort Huachuca military installation. Military rules forbade the soldiers from wearing their military uniforms in public, and they weren't about to change into civilian clothes just to grab a burger and run back to base, so restaurant manager David Rich came up with a solution: cut a hole into the wall and allow members of the military to pick up their orders without stepping out of their car. The convenience and simplicity of the idea quickly caught on.

 

[Beebo]

Whilst the Olympics should be amateur event with no prize money we all know winning comes with benefits. Some countries even pay huge win bonuses.

Singapore pays its athletes $744,000 for a gold medal.
Hong Kong gives out $644,000 for a gold
Malaysia pays $241,000 plus a monthly salary for life of $1,182 for a gold

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

View: https://twitter.com/scowlingmonkey/status/1420514293808775172


Some great factoids in the comments. Never knew Judith's surname was Iscariot

 

[classic33]

The first CCTV camera was installed in Germany for observing the launch of V2 rocket at Test Stand VII.

Installation and design of the system was done by a German engineer named Walter Bruch.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

HMS Victory is the only currently commissioned ship in the Royal Navy to have sunk another ship.

 

[classic33]

Leeds based scientist Brian Boffey accidentally invented Jelly Tots in 1967, while trying to produce a powdered jelly that set instantly when added to cold water.

 

[ClichéGuevara]

Alfred Nobel was inspired to start the Nobel Prize when he read his own obituary in a newspaper that ran it by mistake. Nobel didn't like the headline, "The Merchant of Death is Dead," a reference to the fact that he invented dynamite, so he found a new legacy for himself.

 

[ClichéGuevara]

Paul Winchell invented the first mechanical, artificial heart. He was also the original voice of Tigger from Winnie the Pooh and Gargamel from the Smurfs.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Simon Greenall, the Geordie in the Alan Partridge programmes, is also the voice of the meerkat in the insurance ads.

 

[classic33]

A Devon livestock owner made a claim after he managed to lose his phone inside the rear end of one of his cows while assisting calving on a dark and stormy night (he was using his phone as a torch). The phone eventually reappeared but no longer worked properly and his insurance company paid out in full.

 

[classic33]

Believe it or not, Lloyds of London agreed to issue an insurance policy to cover Tom Jones’ chest hair for $7,000,000

 

[Beebo]

Simon Greenall, the Geordie in the Alan Partridge programmes, is also the voice of the meerkat in the insurance ads.

And Captain Barnacles in Octonauts.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Almost 90% of "Indian" restaurants in the UK are actually Bangladeshi