Odd factoids

[Drago]

Tom Cruise is not fitted with cruise control. One must drive him manually at all times.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Top Gun was about drugs. The phrase “I feel the need for speed” had a different meaning entirely. The drugs were delivered by fast jets, but in one scene a pilot can barely land on the air craft carrier deck as he’s been sampling the product.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

@Drago Liked driving Tom Cruise, but he didn’t realise the gear lever knob he was holding wasn’t what it seemed.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

If you were to stack 5 Tom Cruises' on top of each other, they would still only reach your waist

 

[Drago]

The Church of Scientology was founded by Stephen Hawking for a bet.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Stephen Hawking, together with Brian Cox formed the band Big Bang in the 1980s. It was a pop voice synth band.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Stephen Hawking, together with Brian Cox formed the band Big Bang in the 1980s. It was a pop voice synth band.

Brian Cox is obsessed with water, he talks about nothing else

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Due to a misunderstanding and misprint HS2 has become the H2O project bringing high speed water to every corner of the country. The resulting flooding is causing much chaos.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Ming has never heard of a tap

 

[Drago]

Early male tap dangers used to dance with taps on their feet, while the females used the die.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

This is also how the name 'Riverdance' was coined

 

[Ming the Merciless]

@Mad Doug Biker Used to be a hot tap dancer, till he fell off into the bath, his injuries forcing him to retire.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Jackson Pollock, the supposed abstract expressionist painter, was no such thing.

The works of art were in fact done by the family pet dog, "Sardine", a labrador cross, whose real identity was cunningly disguised by choosing a different fish to credit with his output.

The breed "Labradoodle" was, of course, named in honour of his canine doodling.

 

[Drago]

Jackson Pollock had 3 bo**ocks. As a result it went off with the force of a fire hose and several call girls were seriously injured.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

"Trigonometry", the study of angles, was named after the three gonads possessed by its founder, nicknamed Euclit, who as "his" name suggests, was also the proud owner of both male and female genitals.

The prudish Victorians naturally referred to "him" as Euclid, and the truth of the ancient Greek intersex intellectual hero(ine) was thus buried forever.