Odd factoids

[Nigel-YZ1]

And they moved it on rollers on land, on a giant pontoon for the trip across the water.

Rolls Royce provided these Rollers in exchange for sheep in an experimental phase of providing woolly seats in their models for export to cold countries.
Unfortunately these exports were baaarred.

 

[Drago]

Sheep are simply baby Yetis. Most are culled while young, but the few that reach maturity are usually released into the wilds of Norfolk.

 

[Jenkins]

Yetis have been released into the wilds of Norfolk for the past 500 years, but are still regarded as "newcomers" and treated with suspicion by the locals.

 

[bruce1530]

During the war, American Servicemen were excited when they were told they were being sent to the Norfolk Broads, but were disappointed on arrival.

 

[classic33]

The chip stalls on Great Yarmouth Market are prohibited by local byelaws from selling fried fish.

Probably led to the fish finger being invented in Great Yarmouth, 1952.

 

[Drago]

Since fish fingers were adopted as a lower class delicacy, only fish without fingers survived the carnage. As a result fish have now evolved not to have fingers at all.

 

[bruce1530]

As well as fish’s fingers, one of the original brands also contained birds eyes. However, this is now simply a marketing gimmick, since birds eyes in food products have been banned by the EU.

There is a possibility that the original recipe may be revived post-brexit.

 

[gaijintendo]

Captain Birdseye and Captain Beefheart are both Captain Animalparts.

 

[david k]

They are facts you sit on.

If you have bad factoids, use Preparation F.

Your thinking of hemerfacts

 

[classic33]

As well as fish’s fingers, one of the original brands also contained birds eyes. However, this is now simply a marketing gimmick, since birds eyes in food products have been banned by the EU.

There is a possibility that the original recipe may be revived post-brexit.

Food that stares you straight in the face.

 

[classic33]

You’re twice as likely to be killed by a vending machine than a shark.

 

[NorthernDave]

You’re twice as likely to be killed by a vending machine than a shark.

The odds shorten considerably if it's a machine that vends sharks...

 

[david k]

Donald Trump reads this thread and makes global reaching decisions based on these factoids

 

[david k]

Donald Trump reads this thread and makes global reaching decisions based on these factoids

Teresa May is quite indifferent to the thread, although she found the posts on Frey Bentos several months ago quite humorous

 

[david k]

Donald Trump reads this thread and makes global reaching decisions based on these factoids

I believe he considers it more accurate than Wikipedia