Odd factoids

[Fonze]

Butter someone up .. a phrase to show flattery to someone
Comes from India where people threw balls of clarified butter at religious statues to seek favor ..

 

[Drago]

Barry Humphries is in fact a woman in man drag, played by dame Edna Everage of Australia.

 

[Fonze]

David Dickinson fell into a vat of Cuprinol at the age of 8 .. Tudor mahogany ..

 

[Dave7]

The Kray twins were actually sisters.

I recommend you don't let them hear you say that

 

[Threevok]

Steven Seagal won "Miss Easter Island" four years running

 

[Dirk]

John Travolta dyes his hair.

 

[classic33]

I think the butler did it.

Just one small problem with that. No butler.

 

[jefmcg]

Rats laugh when they get tickled ..
German soldiers were fed cattle steroids methamphetamines during the war to make them aggressive enough to go over the top, trenches.

FTFY

 

[jefmcg]

John Travolta dyes his hair.

No, it was that colour when he bought it.

 

[classic33]

In Illinois in 2008, a woman had to have her dachshund, called Roscoe, put down after the dog gnawed off her big toe while she slept.

Mrs Floyd, 56, woke up too late because nerve damage from diabetes had left her with no feeling in her toes.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

In the 1980s, Pablo Escobar's Medellin Cartel were spending £2,000 a month on rubber bands just to hold all their cash.

 

[jefmcg]

40% of sick days are taken on the day just before or after the weekend.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Life expectancy in the UK is expected to drop for the first time in decades.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

40% of sick days are taken on the day just before or after the weekend.

Monday and Friday represent 40% of the working week if you exclude weekends.

 

[jefmcg]

Monday and Friday represent 40% of the working week if you exclude weekends.

Do we have a "whoosh" emoji? This will have to do in the mean time