Interesting random facts.

[icehog3]

One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do.
Two can be as bad as one, it's the loneliest number since the number one.

[Shemp Howard]

The human head weighs 8 lbs.

[shark]

Ice is a mineral, with its own unique crystalline structure.

[shark]

An object at rest will weigh less than an object in motion, just as an object at 68 degrees Fahrenheit will weigh less than the same object heated to 150 degrees Fahrenheit.

[Adriftpanda]

Try saying "Sixth Sick Sheik's Sixth Sheep's Sick" - It is one of the hardest sentences to pronounce in the English language.

[bsslack]

There was no "Battle of Bunker Hill" there was however a skirmish near "Breeds Hill" where the British were dealt a nasty blow. To this day textbooks persist in the teaching of the incident incorrectly. There's even a Bunker Hill Memorial. In the fine print of the memorial there is mention of Breeds Hill.



Cheers!



slack

[KillerCelt]

D-day was not intended to occur on June 6th. Poor weather delayed the original assault.

[Lumpold]

Originally Posted by KillerCelt

D-day was not intended to occur on June 6th. Poor weather delayed the original assault.

And that poor weather is still playing havoc with the British railways and postal system.

[bsslack]

The "Midnight Ride of Paul Revere" is total BS. He road a tiny distance and got credit for the whole thing. A Civil Servant named Bissell, Rode the long and dangerous road and got little or no credit. Bissell's Family were even Libeled by Revere's when They asserted the Facts in Public. Revere was an Ass.


"Washington Slept Here" was a tongue in cheek slam because of His well earned reputation for accepting Female Hospitality as He traveled. He wasn't called "The Father of Our Country" for nuthin.


Not slamming anybody, but the truth as We believe, many times is not the actual Truth as it occured.





Cheers!



slack

[Lumpold]

The day after the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japanese trains were still running from the town. Many people used them to escape the devastation wrecked town. Hundreds of people boarded one particular train, unknowingly jumping from the frying pan in to the fire. The train they boarded was headed to Nagasaki.

In 2009, Tsutomu Yamaguchi was officially recognised by the Japanese Government as double Hibakushu. He had been in Hiroshima on the 6th, 3km from the epicentre of the bomb, and on business, when Little Boy landed, and then returned home to Nagasaki the day after, on the aforementioned train, only to be home when Fat Boy was dropped two days later. He died in 2010 from stomach cancer, at the age of 93.

[M1903A1]

Originally Posted by Lumpold

The day after the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japanese trains were still running from the town. Many people used them to escape the devastation wrecked town. Hundreds of people boarded one particular train, unknowingly jumping from the frying pan in to the fire. The train they boarded was headed to Nagasaki.

In 2009, Tsutomu Yamaguchi was officially recognised by the Japanese Government as double Hibakushu. He had been in Hiroshima on the 6th, 3km from the epicentre of the bomb, and on business, when Little Boy landed, and then returned home to Nagasaki the day after, on the aforementioned train, only to be home when Fat Boy was dropped two days later. He died in 2010 from stomach cancer, at the age of 93.

Is he the one who was describing the Hiroshima blast to his family just as the Nagasaki bomb went off? I've read that guy's story.

[KillerCelt]

Originally Posted by bsslack

The "Midnight Ride of Paul Revere" is total BS. He road a tiny distance and got credit for the whole thing. A Civil Servant named Bissell, Rode the long and dangerous road and got little or no credit. Bissell's Family were even Libeled by Revere's when They asserted the Facts in Public. Revere was an Ass.

However, we cannot ignore the fact that Revere voluntarily put himself in harms way and at extreme risk by being rowed across the Charles River and right by the Somerset. While the "Midnight Ride of Paul Revere" is a huge fallacy, it is important to remember that Revere did not tell the story nor ask for the glory that Longfellow chose to craft. Revere did help spread the word of the incoming British regulars and many other riders joined as they came into contact with Revere (as many as 40 others). Part of the reason Revere rode a "tiny distance" was because he was captured by British officers. I think this is an example of history where the real story actually makes him seem even more of a hero than Longfellow's fiction. But, just my