Bizarre Fact of the Day

chillidoggy · August 2014

Cone-laying lorries are known as "Queens".

Hertz32 · August 2014

@chillidoggy 's username is derived from an unforunate incident involving his wife, a can of pepperspray and a wild traffic cone.

mike_l · August 2014

Hootsmon isn't actually Scottish, he pretends to be, as he really lives in Margate........

breakstuff · August 2014

I reckon Hootsmon could actually be the new Dr Who.Seemingly Scottish,speaks in incomprehensible riddles.

He's certainly not of this planet.

Saturday evenings will never be the same again.

Hertz32 · August 2014

Where Hertz32 comes from...
My father used to fly the Nimrod, meaning he also had to go to airshows to talk to the public about the aircraft.
He'd try and convince the general public he was swedish by putting on an accent and wearing a fake name badge with the name Hertz Svan-Rental on it and try and see how long he could go before they clocked

mike_l · August 2014

@Hertz32 My dad was a Nimrod pilot for a fair while too....

jpfamps · August 2014

George Foreman was the 3rd person approached to endorse the "lean, mean grilling machine".

HAL9000 · August 2014

A souq is a Middle Eastern marketplace. Oops sorry, that's a bazaar fact.

chillidoggy · August 2014

No matter how carefully you calculate the length of time it takes to do a job, it will always take twice as long as you first thought.

boogieman · August 2014

Arthur Scargill bequeathed his hair to Bruce Forsyth. Upon Bruce's death it will pass on to Prince William.

jd0272 · August 2014

boogieman said:

Arthur Scargill bequeathed his hair to Bruce Forsyth. Upon Bruce's death it will pass on to Prince William.

Not sure HRH is one for waiting......

PolarityMan · August 2014

During the second world war French Troops were mistaken issued compasses with the cardinal points "North", "South", "East" and "Left". Perhaps more strangely a flaw in the manufacturing process meant that the incorrect "West" point was actually affixed to the glass top of the compass so provided you held the compass the normal way round the "Left" point actually did always point left.

freakboy1610 · August 2014

monquixote said:

Eunice Huthart (the scouse one who won Gladiators about 5 times) is godmother to one of Angelina Jolie's children.

Anyone have a weirder fact than that?

I had a long (work related) telephone conversation with Eunice Huthart in about 1998. She was quite pleasant as I recall.
:-c

Kebabkid · June 2018

Not so much bizarre but I didn't know that Peter Frampton played guitar on the track "Grease" from the film.

JAYJO · June 2018

you can spend a fair amount of time reading this thread before you realise it was started in 2014.

Hattigol · June 2018

All crisps have a best before date which falls on a Saturday.
Don't believe me? Check and report back.

Emp_Fab · June 2018

In three-quarters of men tested, ejaculate "is propelled with so little force that he liquid is not carried more than a minute distance beyond the tip of the penis."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ejaculation

It’s ok - you’re normal.

Reverend · June 2018

If you Google my name you'll discover I was New Zealand's answer to David Bowie in the 70s.

RaymondLin · June 2018

In Taiwan it is normal to hire strippers at funerals.

Roysterdoyster · June 2018

Hattigol said:

All crisps have a best before date which falls on a Saturday.
Don't believe me? Check and report back.

At the Tayto crisp factory in Ireland the have a warehouse which holds 22million packets of crisps.....approximately 10 days supplies. True story.

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