Really TRUE odd factoids

[Chris S]

The British challenger tank has tea making facilities!

and most British prison cells, despite the fact that prisoners use kettles of boiling water to commit assaults.

 

[Beebo]

The British challenger tank has tea making facilities!

Isn’t it just a handy supply of hot water mainly so soldiers can eat their dehydrated food rations.
The tea making is a nice side issue.

 

[FishFright]

and most British prison cells, despite the fact that prisoners use kettles of boiling water to commit assaults.

To deprive a British person their liberty in response to a crime is fair enough but to deprive them of a cup of tea would be despicable.

 

[Seevio]

Isn’t it just a handy supply of hot water mainly so soldiering can eat their dehydrated food rations.
The tea making is a nice side issue.

Surely it's the other was around for the English military?

 

[markemark]

My kettle came with a free Challenger tank. Did cost me £4m though.

 

[Dave7]

The Sunflower, 2 facts about it.
A. It is the only flower to have the word "flower" in the name. BUT........
B. It is not actually a flower. The head you see is actually a multitude of tiny individual flowers.

 

[T4tomo]

The Sunflower, 2 facts about it.
A. It is the only flower to have the word "flower" in the name. BUT........
B. It is not actually a flower. The head you see is actually a multitude of tiny individual flowers.

cornflower?

 

[KnittyNorah]

cornflower?

cauliflower? gillyflower? wallflower? coneflower? windflower? mayflower? safflower?

 

[Dave7]

Is silly season over ??
A proper flower with the word "flower" in.

My get out of gaol card is the I quote an 'expert' on R2

 

[T4tomo]

Is silly season over ??
A proper flower with the word "flower" in.

My get out of gaol card is the I quote an 'expert' on R2

no you are still talking utter balderdash, as was your so call expert...

more impressive and maths related facts:

• The individual flowers in the sunflower heads are orientated at the perfect angle (which is the most efficient way to pack them into a circle)
• and thus form interconnected clock and anti-clockwise spirals.
• The number of flowers in each spiral are consecutive Fibonacci numbers.

 

[Dave7]

no you are still talking utter balderdash, as was your so call expert...

more impressive and maths related facts:

• The individual flowers in the sunflower heads are orientated at the perfect angle (which is the most efficient way to pack them into a circle)
• and thus form interconnected clock and anti-clockwise spirals.
• The number of flowers in each spiral are consecutive Fibonacci numbers.

And you knew all that without looking it up?? I am most impressed.

 

[Alex321]

Is silly season over ??
A proper flower with the word "flower" in.

My get out of gaol card is the I quote an 'expert' on R2

Well there are two others in this list
https://horticulture.co.uk/popular-flowers/

And cornflower (referenced above) isn't even in that list, because it isn't that commonly cultivated. But it is very definitely a proper flower.

I suspect the R2 "expert" wasn't actually an expert in horticulture.

 

[T4tomo]

The person who is the last in line in the succession to the throne is a German hospital therapist called Karin Vogel, who lives in Rostock.
Although almost 5000 people would need to die for her to inherit the throne.

 

[ClichéGuevara]

Is silly season over ??
A proper flower with the word "flower" in.

My get out of gaol card is the I quote an 'expert' on R2

Now I'm really confused, given your initial post said it wasn't a flower anyway.

 

[colly]

The person who is the last in line in the succession to the throne is a German hospital therapist called Karin Vogel, who lives in Rostock.
Although almost 5000 people would need to die for her to inherit the throne.

To quote Dudley Moore.

'If 42,789,675 people died......
I'd be queen.'