Odd factoids

[classic33]

Introduced following a fire on 10 November 1935 in a house on Wimpole Street in which five women were killed. A neighbour had tried to telephone the fire brigade and was so outraged at being held in a queue by the Welbeck telephone exchange that he wrote a letter to the editor of The Times, which prompted a government inquiry.

So remember, Wimpole Street.

 

[colly]

Wimples come from Wimpole Street. As do Wombles.

However a Wombat/Womble cross wearing a wimple in Wimpole Street is quite rare.

 

[Grant Fondo]

The interstellar cigar shaped object 1l/2017 U1 which astronomers believed was sent by extraterrestrials from a nearby planetary system was in fact just a rock.

 

[Drago]

The interstellar cigar shaped object 1l/2017 U1 which astronomers believed was sent by extraterrestrials from a nearby planetary system was in fact just a rock.

It was The Rock. The 400 metre lomgmobject was one of Dwayne Johnson's mighty poos.

 

[classic33]

The interstellar cigar shaped object 1l/2017 U1 which astronomers believed was sent by extraterrestrials from a nearby planetary system was in fact just a rock.

The senders were experts in camoflage. Therefore all that was seen was a rock like object.

 

[NorthernDave]

The interstellar cigar shaped object 1l/2017 U1 which astronomers believed was sent by extraterrestrials from a nearby planetary system was in fact just a rock.

Further checks revealed it was actually seaside Rock, and when broken in half it was found to say "Blackpool" all the way through the middle.

 

[classic33]

If Yorkshire were an independent country it would have finished an incredible twelfth on the league table in the 2012 Olympics, gaining 7 Golds, 2 Silvers and 3 Bronze. Athletes include Jessica Ennis, who competed in the Heptathlon, boxer Nicola Adams and cyclist Ed Clancy.

In 2016 Yorkshire re-affirmed its Olympic status with a remarkable 14th place on the league table.

 

[Drago]

If Yorkshire were an independent country their athletes would have come firs tin the olympic whippet hurdling event. Ee by gum they would.

 

[classic33]

The world’s longest lasting rainbow was only visible from Sheffield

The record breaking rain bow was visible above the skies of the Steel City for six hours on the 14th March 1994.

 

[classic33]

Sheffield FC was founded in 1857 by members of a cricket club based in Sheffield.

 

[Drago]

Sheffield was invented kn 1851 by drunk memners of a bowls club based in Leeds. It was done for a drunken wager, but backfired badly when they saw what they'd done.

 

[classic33]

Manchester is the only place in the world where you can obtain a degree in ‘Mummy Studies’ –the University of Manchester has facilities to enable the study of ancient Egyptian mummies.

 

[bruce1530]

The University of St Andrews offers degrees in “Mummy’s Boy Studies”.

 

[Drago]

St Andrew was a mummy boy.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

If the infinite universes theory holds true, somewhere there's a CycleChat forum where cycles chat about the number of humans they have and whether putting helmets on your human is a good thing.