The recent opening of the Ripley's Believe It Or Not! attraction in Piccadilly Circus, complete with five floors of baffling, barely related artefacts culminating in a killer spinny walkway thing, suggests that casual knowledge is becoming big business. In order to compete in this bold new marketplace, I'm going to have to raise my game. So for my latest post, ladies and gentlemen, I have assembled a bevy of actually quite interesting things, which I shall deliver with no small quantity of giddy hyperbole...
Davina McCall used to be a drug addict. Can you believe that?! She seems so clean-cut! Apart from the weird late-night game shows she used to do. You heard it here first!
High heels were invented in the Middle Ages, and were designed for horse riders, to keep their feet in the stirrups. Coo! Who'd have thought? The one article restraining the natural domination of women all over the world, and it was invented to stop people falling off horses. Madness.
Look over here! Traditional Bolognese sauce should contain pork, beef and chicken. That's mental.
A polydactyl is the name given to a creature with excessive fingers or toes. Doesn't sound that interesting? Well, check this out! Eww.
Phoenix Nights star and poor comedian Dave Spikey is vegetarian. But he's Northern! And slightly overweight and middle-aged. It doesn't seem possible! What's more - he really likes broccoli. What is this guy on?!
Brides before the 20th century used to wear blue rather than white. Can you even conceive of such a spectacle?
Behold the world's largest manufacturer of automobiles - at 3 miles high and over 2 years long, it's Japanese car maker Toyota! Weren't expecting that, were you?!
The Super Bowl, the single most widely enjoyed sporting event on the planet, was named after a toy called a Super Ball. A name that conjures image of titanic sporting struggle like no other was name after a mere ball - albeit a super one. My world is collapsing!
You can't buy a return bus ticket with cash on a London bus. We're not safe from this topsy-turvy madness out in the streets. Run for cover - it's factageddon.
Liberia in West Africa was founded by slaves returning from the U.S., hence the flag's similarity to the Star Spangled Banner. Is Spangled even a word? I don't know what to believe any more!!!
The Chinese had invented a form of gun in the 13th century, a full 600 years before Colt, Smith, Wesson and the like. Rip up your history books. They are now worthless. Do it!
And finally...
Fibre doesn't help to keep your bowel movements regular. In fact, it will probably make it worse. DID I JUST BLOW YOUR MINDS?!
And much like the fine institution I have aped so childishly, I have no more facts for you, and will now jettison you all into the cold London night air. Until next time...
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