Here's one... In 1923, jockey Frank Hayes won a race at Belmont Park in New York even though he was dead.
Those French chaps were still executing people by guillotine when Star Wars: A New Hope hit theatres.
You're twice as likely to die from a vending machine than you are to be bitten by a shark. Obviously if you're a diver off the coast of Australia this fact isn't actually true. But in general this is the case.
Smaller animals tend to perceive time as if in slow motion. This means that they can observe movement on a longer timescale than bigger creatures, allowing them to escape from larger predators. Insects and small birds, for example, can see more information in one second than a larger animal such as an elephant. The only exception to this rule is Emre Can, who is slow as fck regardless
It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month, which we know today as the "honeymoon.
There are more fake flamingos in the world than real ones. This equation applies to Man Utd 'fans' too.
Handicapped comes from the term cap in hand, which refers to war veteran's with missing limbs begging for money or something like that
In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts... So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them, "Mind your pints and quarts, and settle down." It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's
