Really TRUE odd factoids

[classic33]

In 1896 the then president of New Yorks City’s Board of Police Commissioners, Theodore Roosevelt, called for heavy fines ($1 to $5*) and up to ten days in jail for throwing peels on the sidewalk.

*$31.14 to $155.70 today.

 

[Chris S]

Herman Goering was on his way to join the Masons when he met a beautiful woman in a hotel lobby and decided to chat her up instead.
If he had joined the Masons then he wouldn't have been eligible to join the Nazi Party and gone on to commit mass murder.

 

[Blue Hills]

Herman Goering was on his way to join the Masons when he met a beautiful woman in a hotel lobby and decided to chat her up instead.
If he had joined the Masons then he wouldn't have been eligible to join the Nazi Party and gone on to commit mass murder.

interesting chris, though can't help but wonder/speculate that as a vain climber he would have ditched the masons in favour of the Nazis - better uniforms, more gongs.

 

[Durango Bay]

It's a great story, isn't it? The best bit was that the ruskies checked with NASA that there was no risk of the two missions colliding; thus becoming the first proper international co-operation in space 👍

Why is this not a well known fact?

 

[classic33]

It is a well known fact that the average person in London will be caught on at least one of the capitals 500,000 cameras 300 times in any one day.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

There was no actual Billie Jean - it was a term given by Michael Jackson to represent crazy groupie women who hooked up with his brothers then claimed their children were their's.

 

[Blue Hills]

Why is this not a well known fact?

to be honest, as I was around at the time, though young, I have a memory lodged at the back of my mind that I remember it from the time.

 

[Darius_Jedburgh]

to be honest, as I was around at the time, though young, I have a memory lodged at the back of my mind that I remember it from the time.

Yup. I remember it as well. The story was swamped by the greater news of Armstrong and Aldrin.

 

[Dave7]

If you walk up Snowdon using eg the miners track.......then walk down, again using the miners track.... the distances are almost the same. Amazing.

 

[Blue Hills]

If you walk up Snowdon using eg the miners track.......then walk down, again using the miners track.... the distances are almost the same. Amazing.

lost me there dave.

 

[Dave7]

lost me there dave.

That's cos your not technical like what is how I am.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

About 2000 Americans go to hospital each year with injuries caused by catching their penis in their trouser zip.

 

[Dave7]

About 2000 Americans go to hospital each year with injuries caused by catching their penis in their trouser zip.

That is surely a load of bollocks

 

[classic33]

The first person killed in the 1916 Easter Rising was a policeman on duty at the Cork Hill entrance to the upper yard of Dublin Castle.

Constable James O’Brien, born in Kilfergus, Co Limerick, in 1868, became the first "British casualty". The person who shot him, Sean Connolly would later be the first, of those in the uprising, to be killed.

 

[classic33]

Disneyland, California, was built in the early 1950s, opening in 1955.

Anxious to be on site as much as possible, Walt built an apartment for his family above the 'Fire Department' on Main Street. A lamp in the window signalled to staff that he was in residence, and this is now always alight in his honour.