My favourite fact about Bovril is that the name comes Bovine + Vril, where Vril is a word meaning “energy” or a sort of “life force”, taken from a nineteenth century science fiction novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vril )
Bulwer-Lytton is the same guy who gave us the famous opening-sentence cliche “It was a dark and stormy night”!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_was_a_dark_and_stormy_night