Odd factoids

[classic33]

Stanley Dock, Liverpool, doubles as the docks in Brooklyn, New York, in "Captain America, The First Avenger".

, Liverpool, added in edit.

 

[Drago]

Contrary to the popularly held belief, avalanches can not be triggered by noise. The US did experiments in the 1950s to see if it would be possible to weaponise avalanches. Even flying jet aircraft over key areas at high speed and low altitude, which created a significant over pressure of several PSI, failed to trigger a single avalanche.

 

[cisamcgu]

St Georges hall in Liverpool was the world's first air-conditioned building - which is strange given that the temperature never gets above "damp and morbid" there for 47/50ths of the year.

 

[cisamcgu]

Canada Dock, in Liverpool again, was the most heavily bombed place in the UK during the second world war. It is thought that Hitler particularly disliked the Canadian Prime minister because his name was Lyon King, but was unable to get his bombers to fly all the way to bomb Canada, so resorted to bombing the dock instead. Hitler always disliked animated films

 

[classic33]

In 95% of avalanche incidents, the VICTIM triggers the avalanche.

 

[gaijintendo]

In 5% of avalanches, snow is to blame.

 

[raleighnut]

View: https://youtu.be/Jq2OUAa_mdA

 

[gaijintendo]

View: https://youtu.be/Jq2OUAa_mdA

And despite this show of might, the war never ends.

 

[Dave7]

Apart from their sickly brand of wholesome middle of the road pop, the Bachelors will be remembered for inventing Cup-A-Soup.

Just you remember.....for every drop of rain that falls a baby cries.
Or a flower grows...or something.

 

[Drago]

For every flower that falls a baby cries?

 

[bruce1530]

The marble-clad foyer and stairwell of the City Chambers in Glasgow is often used in films to represent other opulent buildings, including the Kremlin (“An Englishman Abroad”) and the Vatican (“Heavenly Pursuits”).

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Milton Keynes has 124 roundabouts

 

[Profpointy]

Milton Keynes has 124 roundabouts

as does Hemel Hempstead - but in Hemel they're all in the same place !

 

[classic33]

as does Hemel Hempstead - but in Hemel they're all in the same place !

Home of the earliest recorded crop circle.

The Mowing Devil Crop Circle, 1678

The tale tells of a farmer who, refusing to pay the price demanded by a labourer to mow his field, swore that he would rather that the Devil mowed it instead. That night his field appeared to be in flame. The next morning, the field was found to be perfectly mowed.

 

[Dave7]

The very first crop circle was actually made by Paddy McTavish who was half Irish half scots.
It was going to be crop square but he was so drunk at the time that he could only walk round in circles.