Odd factoids

[Andy_R]

The letters of the alphabet are in the order they are so the song fits that tune.

Apart from "Zed". That particular letter refused to conform, so it's American counterpart "Zee" was offered the role.

 

[Threevok]

For years, it was custom to dress male babies in pink and female babies in blue

Only recently was this reversed

 

[Dave7]

For years, it was custom to dress male babies in pink and female babies in blue

Only recently was this reversed

Not sure I agree with that.
I always wear a pink nighty and Mrs Dave wears blue PJs

 

[Ming the Merciless]

In 1945, a flock of starlings landed on the minute hand of Big Ben and put the time back by five minutes.

 

[Drago]

Paul McCartney died in 1966.

 

[classic33]

The infamous "LMW281F" on the Volkswagen Beetle's number plate –which was mis-read as "LMW28IF", purportedly meaning that Linda McCartney Weeps and that McCartney would have been 28 if he had lived –is edited to read "51IS", indicating that he is alive and his age at the time was 51.

 

[Threevok]

A mate of mine had a photo of four sheep using a zebra crossing in Bargoed, that looks like the Welsh version of the Abbey Road album cover.

 

[NorthernDave]

Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton was named after tough guy actor and SAS reservist Lewis Collins, who himself was named after popular author CS Lewis.

 

[classic33]

Bernie Ecclestone became manager of British F1 driver Stuart Lewis-Evans, and also took control of the Connaught F1 team for whom Lewis-Evans raced in 1957.

 

[Grant Fondo]

Mince pies where employed by Army Intelligence, during the Vietnam War

I get it!

 

[NorthernDave]

In addition to writing popular childrens books, CS Lewis also invented the gas and the gun that take his name.

 

[Grant Fondo]

The cigar shaped asteroid not far from earth really is a remnant of Stanley Kubricks 2001 A Space Odyssey set from 1968.

 

[Andy_R]

It is just as hard to lose at rock, paper, scissors as it is to win

 

[Threevok]

The invention of electronic counter-measure "Chaff" was discovered by accident.

B17s would momentarily jam RAF radar, when US airmen would toss their chewing gum wrappers out the window, shortly after take-off

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

The car driving The Archduke Ferdinand when he was assassinated had the number plate A 181118.
The Armistice at the end of the war caused by his assassination was on 18-11-18