Really TRUE odd factoids

[ClichéGuevara]

Arsenal is the only English football team that isn't named after a geographical location.

Good luck finding Port Vale.

 

[Seevio]

Good luck finding Port Vale.

I was lucky.

 

[T4tomo]

Arsenal Port Vale is the only English football team that isn't named after a geographical location.

 

[classic33]

Good luck finding Port Vale.

Arsenal Port Vale is the only English football team that isn't named after a geographical location.

https://www.port-vale.co.uk/history/

 

[T4tomo]

Arsenal is the only Tube Station named *directly after a Football Club.

* i.e. there are football clubs and tube stations that have names in common, both being named after the local area.

 

[DCBassman]

Arsenal is the only Tube Station named *directly after a Football Club.

* i.e. there are football clubs and tube stations that have names in common, both being named after the local area.

Correct, it used to be called Gillespie Road, but after much petitioning to the then LPTB, it was renamed.

 

[T4tomo]

Correct, it used to be called Gillespie Road, but after much petitioning to the then LPTB, it was renamed.

maybe LPTBs predecessor..(both from wiki)

 

[DCBassman]

Ah, right, it had already unifies to a large extent by then.

 

[Chris S]

The Aryans were a Persian tribe who invaded the nortnern Indian sub-continent around 500 BCE. Their descendents still live there.
When neo-Nazis claim to be Aryans they are actually claiming to be Pakistanis.

 

[Andy in Germany]

The Aryans were a Persian tribe who invaded the nortnern Indian sub-continent around 500 BCE. Their descendents still live there.
When neo-Nazis claim to be Aryans they are actually claiming to be Pakistanis.

That's why they stole the Sw*stika. The top brass, especially Himmler, were also greatly interested in Hinduism and sent expeditions to Tibet where they bemused the local people by measuring their facial features to try and prove they were genetically related.

Himmler sent expeditions to find the Holy Grail and Thors Hammer, and was generally so bonkers his boss with the moustache was embarassed. When H*tler is embarrassed by your antics you know you've really stepped off the cliffs of sanity.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

You can sail from the UK to New Zealand in a straight line

 

[HMS_Dave]

Although tin cans were used to store food from the 1770's at their earliest. The humble can opener wasn't patented until 1855 and the first modern type tin opener with a rotating wheel that cuts the edge of the tin wasn't invented until some 100 years after the first tins were used in 1870 and probably not commercially available until some time after.

I wonder how many people lost their digits trying to open tin cans with varying sharp instruments?

 

[T4tomo]

You can sail from the UK to New Zealand in a straight line

Almost, but proved to be incorrect as you'd clip Antarctica
https://blog.geogarage.com/2019/02/amazing-map-proving-you-can-sail-from.html?m=1

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Don't you be coming in here with all that there fancy "facts" and "evidence" nonsense!

 

[PeteXXX]

Although tin cans were used to store food from the 1770's at their earliest. The humble can opener wasn't patented until 1855 and the first modern type tin opener with a rotating wheel that cuts the edge of the tin wasn't invented until some 100 years after the first tins were used in 1870 and probably not commercially available until some time after.

I wonder how many people lost their digits trying to open tin cans with varying sharp instruments?

I can verify one of these facts as I had 4 stitches in my thumb after opening a tin of beans with an axe went wrong 😂