Odd factoids

[classic33]

The pub with the longest name in the UK "The Old Thirteenth Cheshire Astley Volunteer Rifleman Corps Inn" in Stalybridge, Greater Manchester.

 

[classic33]

Classic33 is very good at googling.

Or try the Book of Lists series.

 

[xzenonuk]

people dreamed in black and white untill the advent of colour tv.

 

[Fonze]

The Scottish invented the egg ..

 

[Drago]

The invention of colour TV was delayed for four decades because the engineers couldn't buy a colour licence until 1968.

 

[machew]

ADIDAS was named after the Boy Racer's national anthem - "All Day I Drive Around Stockport"

Nope, it was named after an afternoon bowel movement "After Dinner I did a sh*t"

 

[Drago]

The teenage ADIDAS range stood for All Day I Dream About Sex.

 

[TVC]

The nose is the only edible part of a snowman.

 

[machew]

1 in 13 people have one leg longer than the other, they can easily be spotted as they usually walk in circles

I have both legs longer than the other one

 

[machew]

Tony Christie was celebrated in song as the first man in history to stop and ask for directions

 

[machew]

They're fed beef nuts.

Don't get many of those to the Bull

 

[jefmcg]

Adidas bought the 3 stripes logo from a Finnish company in 1952 for "equivalent of 1600 euros and two bottles of whiskey"

 

[Drago]

Captain Beefheart was famous as the longest surviving bovine heart transplant patient.

 

[NorthernDave]

Pulled pork was invented by celebrated author Phillip Pullman, who also invented the luxury railway carriage.

 

[Profpointy]

Tony Christie was celebrated in song as the first man in history to stop and ask for directions

Brilliant ! That's more than a mere like.