Odd factoids

[Tim Hall]

Harry Hill is the son of Benny Hill.

Are you sure? There's only one way to settle it.

 

[smutchin]

It's true. And his mum was Dollis Hill, doncha know.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

When Twister was invented, critics called it sex in a box

 

[Blue Hills]

In december 1941 nicaragua declared war on bulgaria, hungary and rumania.

I have no idea what this meant in practice.

 

[Drago]

The Welsh alphabet contains only the letters L, G and L.

 

[classic33]

Your body gives off enough heat in 30 minutes to bring half a gallon of water to a boil.

Your body has enough iron in it to make a nail 3 inches long.(But there's nothing to hit it with.)

 

[ClichéGuevara]

Paracas in Peru was the origin of the native American feathered head dress, and they originally used live chickens. The change to just feathers occurred as the practice of elongating the human skull to make it fit the chickens bum was found to cause health problems.

 

[classic33]

The South Yorkshire town of Doncaster was signed over to Scotland in 1136 by King Stephen of England as part of the Treaty of Durham.

 

[Drago]

Alastair Stewart, presenter of many a Death Kill Police Road Madness Brutality programme is well known for solemnly shaking his head in disgust at the antics of criminals on the road.

What he fails to mention is that he is himself a convicted drink driver, and could quite easily have been a star of one of the videos himself.

In fact, he has twice been convicted of this.

Therefore, he is the most hypocritical man in the history of hypocrisy.

 

[ClichéGuevara]

To prove a point, Jonathon Timpson of West Bromwich lived for fourteen years eating only eggs, but had to stop when he started growing feathers out of his back.

 

[Drago]

Ernest Whipplewhite of Nottingham, was in 1952 disqualified from a fart competition for s*****g.

 

[ClichéGuevara]

After engineers investigated why it hadn't toppled when it passed 5.44 degrees, they discovered that the leaning tower of pisa is actually plumb straight. The visual effect is due to the only place available to take a photograph actually being on a slope and nobody had noticed.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Seeing a falling carrot is a portent of bad luck.

 

[Fonze]

With cousin Jonah ..

 

[Fonze]

And aunty Faith ..