OT random interesting facts.

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I love hearing funny little facts such as :

Being on off the wagon when abstaining from or drinking alcohol comes from condemned prisoners on the way to Tyburn to be executed. They could stop at Inns for a few pints while on the road and when they’d supped up they were put back on the wagon.


LB abbreviated for pound as a unit of weight comes from Libra. The scales.

Anymore favourites?

Don’t Google, just share random ones you have heard.

Should be titled "Random interesting theories" rather than facts. There are several, theories, for example, about the origins of on/off the wagon, other than the one above.