Odd factoids

[Ming the Merciless]

Anatomically speaking, scrotums were found at the back of the upper deck on Victorian buses.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Upstairs Downstairs was the Victorian Tinder

 

[Drago]

Lumber is rhe dating app for gay tree surgeons.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I Got Timber is the no nonsense rival app.

 

[Drago]

Nonsense was invented as a serious alternative to party politics.

 

[Seevio]

... Although it was later integrated.

 

[Drago]

Elizabeth I integrated the 'small boat problem' by sending Francis Drake out to sink them. Drake was later executed for letting a boat get ashore st Dover, and all commoners in England are descender from those 50 French men.

 

[bruce1530]

Francis Drake's naval career was remarkably successful. The main reason behind this success was because he really was a duck - any time his ship was sunk by enemy fire, he could simply swim to safety.

 

[Drago]

Up until 1982, all doctors, or quacks, had to be ducks by law.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

50% of the population of Aylesbury were doctors at the time.

 

[bruce1530]

American doctors are known as “quacks” because they have large bills

 

[Drago]

It is traditional in America to eat a traditional three course Sunday roast dinner for breakfast every day.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Jaguar released their mk1 steam engine powered milk float as competition for the model T ford in 2019. It had taken a century to perfect. Unfortunately the world had moved on.

 

[Drago]

Steam engines were invented by Sir Clive Sinclair as an environmentally sound alternative to the petrol engine.

Sadly this came to nought when it was realised that these engines actually burned petrol to make the steam.

Meanwhile, Ford bought up all the patents to clean coal technology in order to protect their petrol engine division.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Originally Ford had a concept for a Petrel car but soon realised it wouldn’t fly.