Odd factoids

[Threevok]

Every minute, the equivalent to 48 football pitches are lost to deforestation

To combat this, some countries are considering reducing the size of football pitches.

 

[Drago]

The Kegworth air crash did not take place at Kegworth.

 

[ClichéGuevara]

Mao Tse-tung's first name was Mickey, but he was unable to use it after a legal battle with Walt Disney.

 

[Dirk]

The iconic Spitfire fighter plane was originally going to be called the 'Shrew'.

 

[ClichéGuevara]

Kim Jong-un was known as Kim Jong-il until he got better.

 

[classic33]

Toenails are made of the same dead skin tissue as fingernails but are two to three times thicker.

 

[ClichéGuevara]

The term 'Welsh' is a compound English word.

It stems from the anti-social habit of locals who assumed all strangers were English and were seen as a rival for the affections of the sexiest sheep that were kept hidden.

A stranger entering a pub, would hear the question 'English?' whispered, and then the response 'well sshh' and the pub would largely go quiet rather than risk revealing the location, apart from a few who would burble incoherently due to the pressure.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Men first started wearing Lycra in the Middle Ages

 

[ClichéGuevara]

Toenails are made of the same dead skin tissue as fingernails but are two to three times thicker.

This statement is still true if 'toenails' is replaced with 'brummies'.




EDIT. No offence to brummies, I had to pick on some group or other.

 

[Threevok]

One popular belief that turns out to be true - is that Rome was not built in a day.

In fact, using the the date that we believe the city was originally founded and the fact that the city has been sacked and rebuilt several times, it is estimated that Rome was built in approximately 1,010,000 days

Of course, had there been any pubs near by, this would have taken a lot longer

 

[classic33]

There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee. Of these, only 26 have been tested.

 

[classic33]

They have square watermelons in Japan… they stack better.

Americans eat 75 acres of pizza a day.

 

[Tim Hall]

Americans eat 75 acres of pizza a day.

Each.

 

[classic33]

Each.

Possibly

 

[Tim Hall]

The volume of a pizza with a radius of z inches and thickness of a inches is given by the formula pizza.