Really TRUE odd factoids

[matticus]

magnetic North Pole is a South Pole

This is a cool science fact!

(but don't forget it wasn't always thus ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_magnetic_pole#Geomagnetic_reversal )

 

[Chris S]

The Who's 'Live at Leeds' album could easily have been 'Live at Hull' if John Entwistle's bass had recorded.

 

[simongt]

Wrong thread.

Eh - ?

 

[Chris S]

Certainly up to and including WW2, all British Army officers up to the rank of Lt. Col. had to be proficient riders of motor cycles.

Eh - ?

If it was true then how could somebody reach or exceed the rank of Lt. Col. without being a proficient rider of a motor cycle? Progression through the officer ranks was linear.

 

[simongt]

On the simple basis that if you started as a 2nd. Lieutenant, it was obligatory, so rising through the h'officer ranks to Lt. Col., job done.
So if you won a commission as an other ranks / NCO and had a stellar rise straight to Lt. Col., you'd probably skip the requirement - !
Also such powerful h'officers as Lt. Col.s had dispatch riders to do the mundane stuff for them - !

 

[Chris S]

On the simple basis that if you started as a 2nd. Lieutenant, it was obligatory, so rising through the h'officer ranks to Lt. Col., job done.
So if you won a commission as an other ranks / NCO and had a stellar rise straight to Lt. Col., you'd probably skip the requirement - !
Also such powerful h'officers as Lt. Col.s had dispatch riders to do the mundane stuff for them - !

NCOs weren't promoted straight to Lt. Colonel. Do you have any idea how high that is?

 

[simongt]

Do you have any idea how high that is?

Oh yes; can communicate with God - !

 

[Chris S]

'Strictly Come Dancing' use about 57 litres of fake tan per series.

 

[Chris S]

 

[Beebo]

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It must also be the longest ring road?

 

[classic33]

The first cyclist to ride his bicycle around the world was Fred A. Birchmore. He pedaled for 25,000 miles and traveled other 15,000 miles by boat.
He wore out 7 sets of tires.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

If all the cannons of all the armies at the Battle of Waterloo were lumped together with the guns from the two fleets at Trafalgar, just 7 per cent of the total would be contributed by the land forces. Victory alone carried armaments equivalent to 67 per cent of the Duke of Wellington’s artillery in 1815.

 

[Chris S]

Louis Armstrong could speak fluent Yiddish.

 

[classic33]

John F. Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln were both killed on a Friday by a man with three names, Lee Harvey Oswald and John Wilkes Booth.

Lincoln was shot in Box 7 in Ford's Theatre, Kennedy was shot in a Ford Lincoln which was the 7th car in his motorcade.

 

[Chris S]

Retailers would be perfectly within their rights to demand payment in Pokemon cards if they chose to do so.
https://blogs.uwe.ac.uk/bristol-law-school/dont-worry-if-stores-arent-accepting-cash/