Odd factoids

[Ming the Merciless]

The Ausfahrt is a pit stop on Autobahns; specifically set aside so motorists can let rip in less than 6 seconds whilst they have their wind screens cleaned, as it was determined it’s too dangerous to fahrt and clean your windscreen at 400 km/h

 

[Drago]

Autobahn were invented by Adolf Churchill as Autobarns, or garages for storing ones kubelrover. Of course, only the 6 Lane, 50 mile long driveway was ever built.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

The M1 was built so that people kidnapped and taken to Yorkshire could escape the grim reality of Leeds.

 

[oldwheels]

When huge herds of cattle went south from Scotland to England in the 18th century some of the Scottish drovers took them south for the English merchants. They were accompanied by their working dogs.
At the destination mainly in the east of England the drovers got boats heading north by sea but told the dogs to go home by land as feeding them on the boats would have been a problem. The dogs actually did this and followed a reverse of the route south and got fed and stopped overnight at places they had stopped while herding. The drovers then paid for the dogs being fed on the next trip south and this system was accepted practice

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

There is a 'Dogfart Bridge' in Canada

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Drovers dogs are believed to be some of the oldest herding breeds in Scotland, dating back to the 1200s when they used to drive cattle over long distances, in double decker buses.

 

[ClichéGuevara]

When huge herds of cattle went south from Scotland to England in the 18th century some of the Scottish drovers took them south for the English merchants. They were accompanied by their working dogs.
At the destination mainly in the east of England the drovers got boats heading north by sea but told the dogs to go home by land as feeding them on the boats would have been a problem. The dogs actually did this and followed a reverse of the route south and got fed and stopped overnight at places they had stopped while herding. The drovers then paid for the dogs being fed on the next trip south and this system was accepted practice

It's how Cowdenbeef got its name.

 

[Drago]

Cowdenbeath is twinned with Sheepenlamb.

 

[ClichéGuevara]

The real reason that the drovers didn't take the dogs back on the boats, was due to them buying lambs in England to raise and sell in Scotland. They originally had the dogs with them, but they couldn't stop them killing the produce, hence the phrase "sheeps that pass in the night".

 

[Ming the Merciless]

The Hairy Goat is a popular name for inns along the drover routes.

 

[Drago]

Goatee beards were popular on women until the 1960s, when the women's lib movement encouraged the chick's to shave to be like the men.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Goatee beards were popular on women until the 1960s, when the women's lib movement encouraged the chick's to shave to be like the men.

Likewise, men wore bras up until the '60s', too

 

[Ming the Merciless]

The burning 🔥 man festival celebrates the moment men burnt their bras as an act liberation in the 1960s.

 

[Drago]

Burning men, usually peasants, was a cost effective way for the landed gentry to light their castles.

 

[PeteXXX]

Barbara Castle was not actually a medieval building.