Odd factoids

[classic33]

 

[cosmicbike]

Unless you're wearing a white shirt when it achieves light speed.

Or 38mph, as has already been discovered...

 

[User482]

I am pretty sure that the Teat is the world's most common owl, not the biggest. Jack Dee told me so.

Guy Fawkes wasn't hung drawn and quartered.

I think he was drawn and quartered after he jumped, wasn't he?

 

[Postmanhat]

Marmite was originally invented as a cheap and environmentally sound substitute for asphalt.

Apparently, Marmite gets it's name from the crockpot thingy on the jar?

 

[smutchin]

Apparently, Marmite gets it's name from the crockpot thingy on the jar?

In France, a marmite (pronounced mar-meet) is a cooking pot with a lid, not unlike that depicted on the label of a jar of Marmite. I don’t know why the term was adopted as the name for a toast topping made from a waste product of the brewing industry.

 

[classic33]

The common bread ingredient L-cysteine, is derived from human hair.

Peanut butter can be used to make dynamite.

 

[Dirk]

Kim Jong Un secretly auditioned for the Harlem Globe Trotters.

 

[bruce1530]

Four months before the 1966 world cup, the Jules Rimet trophy was stolen.

It was found under a hedge by Eric Pickles.

 

[Drago]

The much loved Monty Python character, Mr Creosote, was inspired by Eric Pickles.

 

[Chris S]

Jeremy Bentham's mumified body is kept in a cupboard at University College London.

 

[Dirk]

The Cutty Sark wasn't the fastest tea clipper in the world.
That record belongs to Jasminder Kaur from Darjeeling, set in 1911.

 

[Drago]

The great Ethiopian famine ended in 1985. By great coincidence this is the year Eric Pickles moved out of Addis Ababa and back to a flat over a branch of Gregg's in Croydon.

 

[Threevok]

Orange is called orange because of oranges.

Aka the colour previously known as a red

An orange was originally called a "norange" and was one of the few fruits to begin with the letter "N". Just like a napple and a narna

 

[Drago]

Eric Pickles ate all the pies.

 

[Mugshot]

Apparently, Marmite gets it's name from the crockpot thingy on the jar?

I thought Marmite was some Scottish bloke that posts on here