Odd factoids

[Chris S]

The villain in the next Bond movie will be based on Elon Musk.

 

[Drago]

Elon Musk will be playing Jeff Bezos in the biopic of the Amazon billionaire's life.

 

[Chris S]

There's a pub in Wolverhampton named after a segregationist governor of Alabama.

 

[Chris S]

And another one is named after a Loyalist paramilitary.

 

[Drago]

Loyalist paramilitaries get their names through being loyal to their parachutes.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Caribbean pirates were an early collective experimenting in free love, hence the flag's name, the "Jolly Roger"

 

[Chris S]

Peppa Pig was created by Picasso.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Preppa Pig lives 100m underground in a former nuclear missile silo in Nebraska

 

[Bonefish Blues]

There are only 7 people in the world who can spell Carrybeyan correctly.

 

[bruce1530]

The area of the US now known as "Nebraska" was named in honour of Bruce Springsteen's album, released in 1982. Before then, that area the US was known as "The Empty Bit Above Kansas".

 

[Drago]

Bruce Springsteen is named after his Grandfather, Robert the Bruce,

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Bruce Springsteen is named after his Grandfather, Robert the Bruce,

Robert the Bruce, aka "Bob the Bruic" was later known as "Bob the Builder"

 

[Drago]

Bob the Builder was a complete fraud. His real name was Dave.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Dave de Bilder founded the Bilderberg group and now secretly runs the global economy from beneath a Pacific volcano.

 

[Chris S]

Ireland looks like a koala bear looking back at the Isle of Man.