Odd factoids

[Drago]

The World record breaking mallard was actually diesel powered. Not especially quick for a diesel, it was dressed up to look like a steam engine in order to grab the world record and generate business. Anyone who got wise to the ruse was murdered and burned in the fire box, which was itself real in order to generate the necessary special effects.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

The Mallard was actually fuelled on rendered duck fat, the hottest burning substance known to man.

Much later, the largest human made explosion ever, the 50 megatonne "Tsar Bomba" nuclear test in Novaya Zemlya, promoted by Stalin as a fearsome triumph of Russian technology, was actually catalysed by an unusually high concentration of Eidur duck in the Arctic that year.

 

[Drago]

Stalin abolished the USSR in 1932 because he knew that he would always be a right wing fascist bourgeois capitalist compared to his campaign manager, Jerzi Corbyn.

 

[PeteXXX]

According to the Beatles, Comrade Corben hurt his Back in the USSR

 

[Drago]

The original four members of the Beatles were in fact all VW Beetles, and the name became mis spelled in translation.

John Lennon was a convertible model, and it is rumoured that Brian Epstein once took his roof down.

George Harrison rusted to death at a tragically young age, but Paul and Ringo have endured nut and bolt restorations and are still in use as daily drivers, although Paul did crash and had to pay out a lot of compo when Heather's leg fell off and she lost control.

 

[raleighnut]

The original four members of the Beatles were in fact all VW Beetles, and the name became mis spelled in translation.

John Lennon was a convertible model, and it is rumoured that Brian Epstein once took his roof down.

George Harrison rusted to death at a tragically young age, but Paul and Ringo have endured nut and bolt restorations and are still in use as daily drivers, although Paul did crash and had to pay out a lot of compo when Heather's leg fell off and she lost control.

Macca only got together with Heather Mills so he could park in the disabled spaces at Tesco.

 

[ClichéGuevara]

Thomas Edison stole the patent for the incandescent electric light so he could win a competition for who could collect the most moths.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Heather Mills was conceived in a mill in Stockport, and born in a mill in Accrington. Her full name is Heather Two Mills.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

The electric Mallard tried for the world record distance by train without stopping. Unfortunately the cable only went 300 yards before the plug came out. The train stopped after 568 yards. It holds the record for the shortest distance travelled in a record attempt.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Electric mallards tend to short out upon landing on the pond. Not the best invention it seems.

 

[Tribansman]

Electric mallards tend to short out upon landing on the pond. Not the best invention it seems.

Doubly so as they still rack up an enormous energy bill.

 

[ClichéGuevara]

Due to improvements in diet, horses now generate 1.5 HP on average.

 

[Tribansman]

The potential energy of the vocal chords when someone has lost their voice is measured in Hoarse Power

 

[raleighnut]

That's the torque curve

 

[PeteXXX]

Torque Radio was invented so engineers had a something to listen too on the wireless.