Odd factoids

[Drago]

The average American is four times the width of North America.

 

[classic33]

Rangi & Tiki were the first dogs in SARDA.

Both were owned by Hamish MacInnes, Glencoe Mountain Rescue. He also has a stretcher of his own design named after him.

 

[Dave7]

Electric toasters were originally designed for people to get an artificial sun tan. When they realised it would not really work they downsized them to take sliced bread.

 

[classic33]

The very first electric toaster was released to the public in Britain in 1893 from Crompton & amp Company.

Not much is known about it other than it was not a very safe toaster.

 

[Drago]

Sliced bread was invented to take advantage the newly invented electric toaster.

 

[FishFright]

Sliced bread was invented to take advantage the newly invented electric toaster.

What was slice bread the best thing since ... ?

 

[Drago]

What was slice bread the best thing since ... ?

Bread and butter pudding.

 

[classic33]

Food historians trace the history of bread pudding to the early 11th and 12th centuries, as frugal cooks looked for ways to use stale, leftover bread instead of letting it go to waste.

In 13th century England, bread pudding was known as “poor man’s pudding,” as it was a popular dish with the lower classes.

 

[Dave7]

Before the 12th century bread was made with a green dye. This was so the 'people' couldn't tell if they were being sold moldy bread.
In the year 1401 a law was passed to stop this practice.

 

[bruce1530]

The 1970s band “Bread” were all qualified bakers.

Lead singer David Gates penned their most famous song “I’d like to make it with you”. It refers to his desire to develop a new recipe for savoury buns with his colleague Ethel the Piemaker.

 

[Drago]

Black Sabbath were all actually black, but work make up for their stage appearances. And the always observed the sabbath, by resting on the holy day.

 

[bruce1530]

The 1970s band “Bread” were all qualified bakers.

Lead singer David Gates penned their most famous song “I’d like to make it with you”. It refers to his desire to develop a new recipe for savoury buns with his colleague Ethel the Piemaker.

Their bakery-related followup singles “Things appear to be rising”, “Bun in the oven” and “Yeast infection” were not commercially successful.

 

[classic33]

"Black Sabbath" were named after the title of a 1963 horror movie starring Boris Karloff that was directed by the Italian filmmaker Mario Bava.

 

[Dave7]

Mushrooms and toadstools are technically/scientifically the same thing.
The name 'toadstool' is just used for the inedible ones. The name was first used around the 14th century by people who believed that toads actually did sit on them and as toads were viewed as nasty 'orrible warty things.......then that was what made the toad-stool poisonous.

 

[Fnaar]

The first camel in Australia was called Harry.