Odd factoids

[Joey Shabadoo]

Many interesting facts about cork.

Not least the annual world wide production is around 200,000 tonnes. That's a lot of bloody wine.

Edit: or 1970's wall/floor coverings.

Edit: or lifebelts.

Edit: or placemats

The corks used in quality wines cost around one Euro each

 

[classic33]

Cork.

Material, City or County?

 

[colly]

Material, City or County?

Any or all.
Cork trees actually come from the County of Cork in Corkshire and were originally harvested by Korky the Cat.

 

[NorthernDave]

It's a little known fact that Irish chat show host Graham Norton invented the motorbike.

 

[classic33]

It's a little known fact that Irish chat show host Graham Norton invented the motorbike.

The idea came to him in church. When he came up with the Norton "Kneeler".

 

[classic33]

The first motor boat race in the world (The Harmsworth Cup) was held in Cork in 1903.

Dorothy Levitt driving a Napier powered, steel hulled, boat at 19.53 mph was the first winner.

 

[Racing roadkill]

A Dutch bike company named Vanmoof prints televisions on their shipping boxes and this has reduced damages by 70-80%.

 

[Racing roadkill]

Immediately after Winston Churchill's 'We shall fight them on the beaches' speech during World War 2, he told a colleague, "And we’ll fight them with the butt ends of broken beer bottles because that's bloody well all we've got!"

 

[Racing roadkill]

Arctic foxes don't start shivering until the temperature reaches -94 °F / -70 °C

 

[Drago]

Foxes Glacier Mints contained both real fox and real glacier until the Glacier Liberation Front burned down their warehouse in 1988.

 

[Dave7]

The fox that sat on the Foxe's mint in the tv advert belonged to a farmer from Devon.
He succesfully sued ITV for using it in the advert without his permission.

 

[classic33]

Each Glacier Mint contains:
Calories from Fat 0.
Calories 120. 0%
Total Fat 0g. 0%
Saturated Fat.
0% Cholesterol.
0% Sodium 0mg.
10% Total Carbohydrates.
0% Dietary Fiber.

 

[Dave7]

Each Glacier Mint contains:
Calories from Fat 0.
Calories 120. 0%
Total Fat 0g. 0%
Saturated Fat.
0% Cholesterol.
0% Sodium 0mg.
10% Total Carbohydrates.
0% Dietary Fiber.

Is that with or without the fox ?

 

[classic33]

Is that with or without the fox ?

There's little fat on the fox. The bear on the other hand...

 

[colly]

Bertie Basset was not in fact the jolly confectionary japester we all thought he was.

He is the subject of one of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore's
sketches.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9_kTOgjT3E