Monday – Mustard and cabbage are related, Mustard could have come from a tree for all I knew until today. Yet somehow I think I should have known mustard didnt come from trees. (I learnt what colour Teal was today too, but I have a hunch that I had come accross it before and had just forgotten so this would not have counted).
Tuesday – Bristol City’s biggest home defeat was 8-0 in 1926, but they made a brave attempt at beating that record against Cardiff today but fell 2 goals short
Wednesday – Scoville heat units (SHUs) measure chilli heat, hottest being about 1 million SHUs (Bhut Jolokia chilli)
Thursday – Maria Anne Smith was the person who the Granny Smith was named after – and the Bunty Annual of 1970 thought that every girl would love to know this
Friday – People in the nuclear power industry prefer to use the term “stored” rather than “dumped” when referring to waste that is put in a pond
Saturday – Found an interesting and elegant proof of Ptolemy’s theorem
Sunday – the Isle of Wight railway uses old London Underground trains, and has the oldest trains on any public transport railway in the UK. Also learnt that West Ham United were the last team to come back from being 2-0 down against Manure., Would have been a bit funny if the Arse could have managed it today.