78 Quotes by John LLoyd

In 1917, John D. Rockefeller could have paid off the whole US public debt on his own. Today, Bill Gates’s entire fortune would barely cover two months’ interest.

Under the Wildlife and Countryside Act, it is explicitly illegal in Britain to use a machine gun to kill a hedgehog.

Just like humans, British cows moo in accents specific to their region.

The Roman name for Paris was Lutetia, which translates into English as ‘Slough’.

The name ‘United Nations’ was Franklin D. Roosevelt’s idea. He rushed to tell Winston Churchill, who was towelling himself stark naked in his bathroom.

In March 2014, an Australian python swallowed a chihuahua and found itself chained to a kennel.

Between 1908 and 1965, Winston Churchill drank 42,000 bottles of champagne.

In the 1950s, to allow babies of students at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, to enter the premises, they were re-defined as cats.

Mongolians will never eat a marmot’s armpits because “they contain the soul of a dead hunter.