Really TRUE odd factoids
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OP
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Max Gottschalk, a german, crossed from Russia to the United States without using a boat. Or a plane for that matter.
The first documented person to do this in modern times.
1913.
He used a dog sled team across the Bering Straight.
The first documented person to do this in modern times.
1913.
He used a dog sled team across the Bering Straight.
roley poley
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If you stretched all the people in the world of childbearing age in a long line, head to toe, there would be no need for the pill
OP
OP
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Wrong thread.
classic33
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Fernando Alonso was the Airbus flight-test director when the A380 made it's maiden flight.
https://www.flightglobal.com/airbus-reveals-a380-debut-crew/58255.article
https://www.flightglobal.com/airbus-reveals-a380-debut-crew/58255.article
Beebo
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He’s a busy boy. He was winning the F1 championship in 2005 too. 😀
Darius_Jedburgh
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The first undisputed person to reach the North Pole didn't do so until 1966.
Wally Herbert. Cook and Peary both claimed it early in the 20th century, but
nobody believes them.
Wally Herbert. Cook and Peary both claimed it early in the 20th century, but
nobody believes them.
swee'pea99
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As Dorothy Parker once said: "If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised"
Chris S
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Wasn't he the first person to walk there? Other people had got there before him.
Darius_Jedburgh
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I thought he was the first to get there by any means. Yes he did walk there.
The Italians flew over it in an airship before the First War. Didn't a sub - Russian or US break though the ice to the surface? But that would be afterwards.
Peary and Cook claimed to have got there but their accounts don't stand up to scrutiny and they had a reputation as liars in other events.
I'm willing to be corrected
The Italians flew over it in an airship before the First War. Didn't a sub - Russian or US break though the ice to the surface? But that would be afterwards.
Peary and Cook claimed to have got there but their accounts don't stand up to scrutiny and they had a reputation as liars in other events.
I'm willing to be corrected
Nigeyy
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- Massachusetts, USA
Percentages are "reversible".
12% of 25 can (at least for me) be more easily solved by thinking of it as 25% of 12. Or 9% of 50 is more easily done if it is 50% of 9.
12% of 25 can (at least for me) be more easily solved by thinking of it as 25% of 12. Or 9% of 50 is more easily done if it is 50% of 9.
swee'pea99
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I'll be 60 soon, and that has never occurred to me. D'oh. Top tip - thanks!
classic33
Leg End Member
*On the 6th April 1969, the year after American Ralph Plaisted and three companions arrived on snowmobiles.
https://www.sciencefocus.com/planet-earth/who-really-discovered-the-north-pole/
Darius_Jedburgh
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Thank you. I had it in my mind that Wally Herbert reached the Pole the same year England won the World Cup.
Time does strange things to memory!
Time does strange things to memory!
