Odd factoids

[raleighnut]

Stephen Fry is allergic to Champagne.

 

[Drago]

Stephen Fry is allergic to Champagne.

But not to speeding.

 

[raleighnut]

But not to speeding.

Although his chum was driving at the time.

 

[Dave7]

Count Dracula couldnt actually count very well. His reading and writing weren't very good either.

 

[cisamcgu]

In "House of Cards", the 1990's political thriller staring Ian Richardson, disappointingly none of the houses shown are made of card, most are in fact made from bricks, just like 108% of houses in the UK.

 

[classic33]

In 1816, on a gloomy day in Lake Geneva, Lord Byron proposed a ghost story contest that led to Mary Shelley writing Frankenstein.
It was also the birth of The Vampyre by John Polidori, he first-ever vampire story written in English. Polidori was Byron’s personal physician and he may have based his aristocratic bloodsucker on his patient—which would make Lord Byron the basis for the bulk of vampire depictions that followed.

 

[Threevok]

The contents of Lake Geneva were imported by air

 

[bruce1530]

While Lake Geneva is bordered by Switzerland and France, the 1722 Bruges-Poirot treaty means that the entire contents, other than fish, are owned by Belgium.

 

[classic33]

There’s a Lake Geneva in the Walworth County, USA.
With a city named Lake Geneva on it, which was first named Geneva (after the town of Geneva in New York, located on Seneca Lake), but renamed Lake Geneva later not to be mistaken for a town Geneva in Illinois.

 

[Drago]

Walworth County is where the first Woolworth store was opened.

 

[classic33]

In 1979, The Guinness Book of World Records declared that Woolworths was the largest department store chain the world.

Mount Horeb, Wisconsin, is the Troll Capital of the World

 

[Jenkins]

The Guinness Book of World Records doesn't recognise claims about 'best lager in the world'

 

[raleighnut]

The Guinness Book of World Records doesn't recognise claims about 'best lager in the world'

Did you ever try 'Harp'

 

[Dave7]

When Moses first asked god for a single commandment he thought it would be expensive.
When he was told it was free he said "in that case I'll have ten" .

 

[Drago]

In actual fact, Moses asked God for a Norton Commando (the '73 model with the optional cafe racer bars and seat), but was misheard. Having not received his motorcycle he became rather grumpy, and spent the rest of his days leading the Jewish people around the wilderness to **** them off.