Odd factoids

[HMS_Dave]

During the great toilet paper shortage of 1132, Burning peasants was the only effective way the nobility could wipe their backsides.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Barbara Castle was not actually a medieval building.

But she did invent chess, complete with her eponymous signature move.

 

[Drago]

The game chess was named after the Benny and Bjorn penned musical, not the other way around.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Benny Hill and Bjorn Borg came up with the lyrics for Ernie (fastest milkman in the west) whilst inventing the game of tennis.


View: https://youtu.be/Rwa0vaR7slQ

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Chessington World of Adventures is the world's only chess based theme park.

 

[Drago]

Theme parks were invented as places fans could go to hear the EastEnders theme tune endlessly played.

 

[HMS_Dave]

The film Coneheads was originally supposed to be a TV series set in London called EastEnders but was dropped due to the fear that people would think it was a factual documentary.

 

[Grant Fondo]

Barbara Castle switched to the conservative party in 1975, then after taking on the identity of a younger female MP a few months later, became Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990.

 

[Drago]

Barbara Castle had an affair with Cyril Smith, and in 1931 their illegitimate sonnwas born. Arthur Shoppingcentre went on to cause havoc with both the British landscape and society itself.

 

[PeteXXX]

After her affair with Cyril Smith, her career went flat. As did she..

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Barnards Castle is

An opticians that first opened in 952 during the Great War of the Glasses. This was a war between the upper and lower glasses.

 

[srj10]

The Impressionist painters got their name because they do impressions whilst painting. Claude Monet does a vicious impression of Tony Blair.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

The Impressionist painters got their name because they do impressions whilst painting. Claude Monet does a vicious impression of Tony Blair.

Immortalised in the Abba song, of course, because it was so amusing.

Monet Monet Monet, must be funny...

 

[Drago]

Benny and Bjorn of ABBA were actually cross dressing women, real names Bennyella and Bjornetta. The beards, however, were real.

 

[srj10]

Immortalised in the Abba song, of course, because it was so amusing.

Monet Monet Monet, must be funny...

A big favourite of Tom Cruise as well who is always demanding show me the Monet.