The Random Factoid thread:

[Kharn]

I am starting this to collate all the little odd facts you learn or find interesting, for example:

You know the footpaths in grass where people cut off corners, or even if there is a pathway they wall across the grass?
A bit like this:

There is a name for that behaviour and the people who do it, Meanderthals.

Also:

James Cammeron said the original star in mind to play the Terminator would not work, as he could not picture that person as a killer, that person "O J Simpson"

 

[Kharn]

During WW1, the Germans objected the use of the Winchester 1897 Shotgun. However Modified shotguns where used by all sides during the first world war in a unofficial capacity and with rather nasty home made loads (Rat poison mixed with broken glass and bit's of barbed wire where common) to this day it is the only objection of using a shotgun in international conflicts.

 

[Kharn]

Spencer Perceval was the only English Prime minister to have been assassinated.

Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be executed in England used a Smith an Wesson Victory revolver stolen from the British Army at the end of the second world war. This is one of the most controversial decisions in English Legal history.

The Term Rule of Thumb is one of spouse abuse, in English law a man was allowed to beat his with with a stick as long as it was not wider than his own thumb.