Published on 12, July, 2020
I encourage you to reply, but not more than once a day, with a interesting new fact. Let’s stretch this out instead of dumping all the interesting facts out all at once. (Btw feel free to comment on the interesting facts as much and as often as you want)
edit: posting a source for your fact is strongly encouraged.
Stuart Drummond was probably the only elected mayor in the UK to have campaigned successfully as a monkey. He wore a monkey suit throughout the run-up to the election, the mascot of the local football (soccer) team. He was elected in 2002 and held office until 2013 when the people of Hartlepool voted in a referendum to end the elected mayoralty. [Wikipedia]
IIRC the monkey mascot is called Hangus because according to legend, the Hartlepoolians hanged a monkey because they thought it was French... or something. People are so ridiculous.
I know that one..