Really TRUE odd factoids

[newfhouse]

To fake the landings, perfectionist Kubrick insisted for realism they shoot on location......

View: https://youtu.be/P6MOnehCOUw

 

[Blue Hills]

Each year an average male of whatever age has a 50 per cent greater chance of dying before his next birthday than an average female of the same age.

(sorry can't remember the source of this but I do recall that it seemed to be an authoritative one)

 

[Blue Hills]

The iconic photograph of Berlin’s fall, of Red Army soldiers planting the Soviet flag atop the roof of the Reichstag, had to be retouched prior to release in order to airbrush out one of the two watches being worn on one of the soldier’s wrists.

A lot of looting (and worse) went on, watches were particularly prized

 

[Beebo]

On 5Live yesterday they had an interview with the current editor of the Beano. He said that during WWII the comic was running anti Nazi stories to such an extent that the Nazi party put the editorial team on a death list.

Well I’ve looked it up and apparently it’s not true. But still very interesting.

https://bearalley.blogspot.com/2010/09/beano-dandy-and-nazi-death-list.html?m=1

 

[Blue Hills]

On 5Live yesterday they had an interview with the current editor of the Beano. He said that during WWII the comic was running anti Nazi stories to such an extent that the Nazi party put the editorial team on a death list.

Well I’ve looked it up and apparently it’s not true. But still very interesting.

https://bearalley.blogspot.com/2010/09/beano-dandy-and-nazi-death-list.html?m=1

One to file under Rochdale Town Hall I think Bebo.

 

[classic33]

Just something to think about the next time you put yours on. If you use one.

3M's N95 mask grew from an early 1960s bra-cup design by Sara Little Turnbull. And like any good design, it's had it's imitations/copies over the years.

 

[Blue Hills]

I knew about the "Winchester geese" (google it folks) but was more than surprised recently to learn that in the 15th century Strasbourg cathedral's bell tower had resident prostitutes working there - they were known as "swallows" apparently.

And in 1608, the Dominican order in Perpignan collected alms from their congregations for the refurbishment of the order's bordello.

More factoids from the same source may be coming.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

"Traditional Chinese Medicine" is not a genuine medical heritage, but was invented by Chinese Communists in the 1950s as a nationalist response to shortages of "Western-style" doctors and medication.

 

[Chris S]

Father's Day is in June. Mother's Day is in March, nine months later.

 

[classic33]

The Irish Government ran into issues when trying to register the harp as a state symbol? This was because under international trademark law the symbol of the harp and the Guinness label, containing a similar harp were so alike.

Eventually, the state and the brewery were able to reach a compromise: the harp on a bottle of Guinness would always face right, while in official use, the harp would always face left.

 

[classic33]

The clock faces on the Liver Building, Liverpool, are the biggest in the country at 25 feet. Big Ben’s are only 23 feet in diameter.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

When Luke Skywalker blew up the Death Star, he ended the lives of 1.7 million Imperial personnel, and 250,000 civilians (mostly contractors, prisoners and catering staff.)

 

[Tribansman]

'was it a car or a cat i saw' and 'do geese see god' are palindromic sentences.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

There are 46.8 million millionaires.

 

[Milkfloat]

There are 46.8 million millionaires.

And there was me thinking I was special.

Which currency are we talking about?