Odd factoids

[screenman]

Roy C Sullivan was an unlucky guy.

 

[Tim Hall]

Roy C Sullivan was an unlucky guy.

Or lucky, depending on your point of view.

 

[bruce1530]

Diminutive actor John Wayne (born Marion Morrison) and TV Wrestler Big Daddy (born Shirley Crabtree) became childhood friends, after meeting at St Cecily’s School for Girls in Eastbourne.

 

[classic33]

Morrisons was founded by William Morrison in 1899 who started the business as an egg and butter merchant in Rawson Market, Bradford, England, operating under the name of Wm Morrison Limited.

 

[gaijintendo]

Egg and Butter Merchants are commonly known as Greasy Spoons

 

[bruce1530]

Marks & Spencers was formed in 1884 when Harpo Marx entered into a business relationship with Lady Diana Spencer’s paternal grandfather. This was less than a year after Harpo’s father, Karl, passed away.

 

[classic33]

A new parent will lose about 1055.6 hours of sleep in the first year of their child's life? That's almost 44 days.....

 

[Dave7]

A couple of facts that I was unaware of until last night.
You also may be unaware.

Billy the Kid, the famous gunslinger, was actually a person. I had always thought he was a baby goat.

Wild Bill Hickock was not actually wild. He had been in captivity for years and was quite domesticated.

And.....
General Custer did not die during the "last stand".
He was heard to shout "you hold them off lads. I am nipping to KFC for refreshments.
He was last seen running hell for leather over the distant hills.
There are reports of him turning up in Argentina and working with some of Hitlers henchmen.

 

[Threevok]

Shakespeare did not have a beard

All paintings and images of him - had the beards added later, mostly by disgruntled actors, as a cryptic way of telling him what they thought of him

 

[classic33]

When Sanders painted a sign directing people to his Shell station—the very same one where he first started selling his fried chicken—it riled up the owner of a nearby gas station, Matt Stewart, who promptly painted over it. Sanders painted back over it, and it wasn't long before Stewart headed back to the sign to cover it back up. Draaaama!

As soon as Sanders heard his rival was painting over his sign for a second time, he and two colleagues decided to catch them in the act. A gun fight ensued, which killed one of Sanders' coworkers. Sanders shot Stewart in the shoulder, Entrepreneur reports.

 

[Drago]

Colonel Saunders is in fact Jennifer Saunders.

 

[colly]

Jennifer Saunders was in fact christend Jeffrey Saucers. Jeffery never having liked his name changed it by deed poll at the same times as his (now her) sex change operation.

 

[NorthernDave]

They are walking on the bottom.....I rest my case

With respect, that's ridiculous.

The giraffes are being transported across by standing on submerged crocodiles - it's a little known fact that giraffes and crocodiles enjoy a symbiotic relationship. Crocodiles provide cross-river transit and promise not to eat the giraffe in return for prickly pears, which the giraffes pluck from trees and then pass to the crocodiles after being ferried across the water. Prickly pears are like crack cocaine for crocodiles, but due to an evolutionary inability to climb trees they are totally dependant on giraffes for their supply.

 

[classic33]

Crocodiles can climb trees. And they do it well, too: Some of the toothy reptiles have been spotted as high as 32 feet up trees.

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=saXKPQL7ffc

 

[NorthernDave]

Crocodiles can climb trees. And they do it well, too: Some of the toothy reptiles have been spotted as high as 32 feet up trees.

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=saXKPQL7ffc

Blimey - someone tell the giraffes, quickly!