Really TRUE odd factoids

[Beebo]

The lead guitarist of Spinal Tap is the 5th Baron Haden-Guest of Great Saling.
He’s also married to Jamie Lee Curtis.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

In 1867 Fanny Adams from Alton was cruelly murdered and partly dismembered. At that time the process of tinning meat for the Navy was still in its infancy and the rumour spread that parts of young Fanny were tinned for consumption by the navy in the Victualling factory at Gosport. Tins of meat quickly became known as tins of Sweet Fanny Adams.

 

[Chris S]

You can now buy sweaty kebab flavour Pringles

 

[Beebo]

You can now buy sweaty kebab flavour Pringles

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I’ve tried them and they taste good.
Not really like a kebab, more curry flavour but they are nice.
Only limited edition.

 

[Dave7]

Charging Thunder* was a member of the Blackfoot tribe. He came to Salford aged 26 during the show’s 1903 tour, and stayed on. He was believed to have been the only native American living in the Northwest until his death aged 52 in 1929. With him were Josephine, a sharp-shooting cowgirl with the circus, and their daughter Bessie. The family stayed in the area after Bessie caught diphtheria.

He changed his name to George Edward Williams and moved to Thomas Street in Gorton, Manchester.


*One of the first Pony Express riders in America

Charging Thunder had a daughter called massive thunder. She married a Comanche called Big Chief Fartalot. One of their ancestors was called @Drago
This may not actually be genuine.

 

[Chris S]

Rastafarianism is recognized as a religion by the British armed forces.

 

[Dave7]

In 1867 Fanny Adams from Alton was cruelly murdered and partly dismembered. At that time the process of tinning meat for the Navy was still in its infancy and the rumour spread that parts of young Fanny were tinned for consumption by the navy in the Victualling factory at Gosport. Tins of meat quickly became known as tins of Sweet Fanny Adams.

The man found guilty of murdering her was Frederck Baker and he was hanged Christmas eve 1867

 

[Chris S]

Kellogg sounds like 'ceiliog', the Welsh word for cockerel. There is a cockerel on Kellogg's cornflakes packets in the colours of the Welsh flag.

 

[Blue Hills]

This is as I understand it, so posted in good faith.
Myself and accy were almost born in the same house.
Only a last minute planetary swerve/twist of fate prevented this.

 

[Dave7]

This is as I understand it, so posted in good faith.
Myself and accy were almost born in the same house.
Only a last minute planetary swerve/twist of fate prevented this.

When you say "almost born in the same house" do you mean accy wasn't actually born ie he was hatched??

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

This is as I understand it, so posted in good faith.
Myself and accy were almost born in the same house.
Only a last minute planetary swerve/twist of fate prevented this.

Wow - saved by a swerve. Accy that is

 

[nickyboy]

There is only one Lake in the Lake District

 

[Darius_Jedburgh]

There is only one Lake in the Lake District

Can you name it?
I can, and once won a bottle of whisky by doing so.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

There is only one Lake in the Lake District

There is more than one Lake District though

 

[Darius_Jedburgh]

There's only one English Lake District.