Really TRUE odd factoids

[Beebo]

A sad statistic i learned last week.

More French civilians were killed by allied bombing during the liberation of France than British civilians were killed by the Germans during the blitz.

They didn’t say why, but I guess it was the lack of proper warnings and air raid shelters?

 

[Andy in Germany]

A sad statistic i learned last week.

More French civilians were killed by allied bombing during the liberation of France than British civilians were killed by the Germans during the blitz.

They didn’t say why, but I guess it was the lack of proper warnings and air raid shelters?

Bombing was rather inaccurate at the time.
There were rather more allied bombers flying over France by that time than the Nazi Germany managed to muster in 1940.
Getting workers into safe locations during a raid would be less of a priority to Nazi overseers.

A fairly in depth (if rather sweary) telling of the story of the Battle of Britain and the allied bombing campaign can be found on the "Lord Hardthrasher" channel on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@HardThrasher

 

[Chris S]

Everything that we eat was once alive, apart from salt.

 

[classic33]

Everything that we eat was once alive, apart from salt.

Not forgetting water.

 

[Chris S]

Strictly speaking you drink that.

 

[Beebo]

Strictly speaking you drink that.

Ice?

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Vinegar?

 

[Alex321]

Vinegar?

Was once grapes (wine vinegar or balsamic vinegar ) or barley (malt vinegar)

 

[matticus]

Everything that we eat was once alive, apart from salt.

Good lord - that's a cracker!

It sounds at first like there must be other similar substances ... but then you find you can't think of any!!!

OH! How about gravel to help digest tough food? Or is that just crows ...

 

[simongt]

Of the approximately 350 species of trees now growing in Britain, only 35 are truly native.

 

[markemark]

Everything that we eat was once alive, apart from salt.

Honey? Cheese? Not sure as they’re from animals but I guess they are processed from their diet which is from organic material.

 

[Punkawallah]

Honey? Cheese? Not sure as they’re from animals but I guess they are processed from their diet which is from organic material.

Flowers, cows.

 

[Dave7]

Of the approximately 350 species of trees now growing in Britain, only 35 are truly native.

Serious question x 2
If they are growing here why are they not native ?
As a small island did not all our trees come from somewhere else ?

 

[Punkawallah]

Serious question x 2
If they are growing here why are they not native ?
As a small island did not all our trees come from somewhere else ?

‘Native to Britain’, we will have a date for the identification on ‘Britain’ as a place. Trees arriving or introduced after that date could be considered ‘non-native’
We only became an island about 5-10,000 years ago. But in a sense, all trees everywhere came from somewhere else.

 

[Andy in Germany]

‘Native to Britain’, we will have a date for the identification on ‘Britain’ as a place. Trees arriving or introduced after that date could be considered ‘non-native’
We only became an island about 5-10,000 years ago. But in a sense, all trees everywhere came from somewhere else.

Bloomin' immigrants. coming over here, taking over our... um... forests.