Really TRUE odd factoids

[classic33]

The RMS Titanic's chief baker nonchalantly stepped off the stern of the sinking liner and calmly paddled around until he was rescued at dawn. Experts note that he survived the disaster by getting completely drunk.

 

[classic33]

The rate of heart attacks is higher on a Monday than on any other day of the week.

 

[Andy in Germany]

The RMS Titanic's chief baker nonchalantly stepped off the stern of the sinking liner and calmly paddled around until he was rescued at dawn. Experts note that he survived the disaster by getting completely drunk.

The rate of heart attacks is higher on a Monday than on any other day of the week.

Conclusion: The best way to survive Monday is getting completely drunk.

 

[Petrichorwheels]

The RMS Titanic's chief baker nonchalantly stepped off the stern of the sinking liner and calmly paddled around until he was rescued at dawn. Experts note that he survived the disaster by getting completely drunk.

I had the idea that if you waited until the last minute to hop off a big sinking ship you'd be "sucked" down with it. Not true?

 

[RoMeR]

Conclusion: The best way to survive Monday is getting completely drunk.

Monday Club at Wetherspoons always helps me with that.

 

[colly]

The rate of heart attacks is higher on a Monday than on any other day of the week.

The Boomtown Rats knew that.

 

[mikeIow]

I had the idea that if you waited until the last minute to hop off a big sinking ship you'd be "sucked" down with it. Not true?

Clearly not!!
I imagine if the thing has gone down properly below you, it’s just a sinking weight. Maybe if you were paddling alongside it then the draft could pull you under…..& likely the confusion and unintentional drinking of sea water would cause the issues.
Astonishing story (it’s on wiki).

 

[markemark]

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Assuming space exploration is done in the known 3 dimensions which may not be true for that sort of time period.

 

[Beebo]

Assuming space exploration is done in the known 3 dimensions which may not be true for that sort of time period.

Plus the added complication that earth gets swallowing up by the dying sun in about 5 billion years.

 

[colly]

There stands in Bradford what was once the largest textile mill in England.

Manningham Mills.

27 acres of floor space saw around 11000 men, women and children spinning and weaving some of the finest silks and velvet fabrics ever crafted. When the mill was run under the power of steam it took 1000 tons of coal each week to keep the huge boilers running. The coal being dug from the companies own collieries down near Pontefract.
To cope with the smoke and fumes from the boilers a massive chimney was constructed. The chimney of the mill is 249 feet (76 m) high.
It cost about £10,000 to build, and its total weight has been estimated at 8,100 tons. Unsurprisingly it can be seen from almost all of Bradford.

Samuel Lister called the chimney "Lister's Pride".

In a previous life (late 1970's early 1980's) I visited Manningham Mills a number of times and sad to say it was a forlorn shadow of it's former self. Still trading as Lister's but more than half the place was semi-derelict.

 

[Petrichorwheels]

Karl Marx wrote Abraham Lincoln a letter. An analysis of the American situation apparently. Lincoln almost certainly read it and a reply was sent, though by an aide.

 

[Dave7]

There stands in Bradford what was once the largest textile mill in England.

Manningham Mills.

27 acres of floor space saw around 11000 men, women and children spinning and weaving some of the finest silks and velvet fabrics ever crafted. When the mill was run under the power of steam it took 1000 tons of coal each week to keep the huge boilers running. The coal being dug from the companies own collieries down near Pontefract.
To cope with the smoke and fumes from the boilers a massive chimney was constructed. The chimney of the mill is 249 feet (76 m) high.
It cost about £10,000 to build, and its total weight has been estimated at 8,100 tons. Unsurprisingly it can be seen from almost all of Bradford.

Samuel Lister called the chimney "Lister's Pride".
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In a previous life (late 1970's early 1980's) I visited Manningham Mills a number of times and sad to say it was a forlorn shadow of it's former self. Still trading as Lister's but more than half the place was semi-derelict.

I once read that, in its hay day Bradford had more Rolls Royce cars per head than any other city in the UK

 

[classic33]

It takes more electricity to operate the digital clock on a microwave than it does to heat food in it.
You can “zap” your meal cheaper than you can check the time of day.

 

[Jameshow]

There stands in Bradford what was once the largest textile mill in England.

Manningham Mills.

27 acres of floor space saw around 11000 men, women and children spinning and weaving some of the finest silks and velvet fabrics ever crafted. When the mill was run under the power of steam it took 1000 tons of coal each week to keep the huge boilers running. The coal being dug from the companies own collieries down near Pontefract.
To cope with the smoke and fumes from the boilers a massive chimney was constructed. The chimney of the mill is 249 feet (76 m) high.
It cost about £10,000 to build, and its total weight has been estimated at 8,100 tons. Unsurprisingly it can be seen from almost all of Bradford.

Samuel Lister called the chimney "Lister's Pride".
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In a previous life (late 1970's early 1980's) I visited Manningham Mills a number of times and sad to say it was a forlorn shadow of it's former self. Still trading as Lister's but more than half the place was semi-derelict.

At least it and Salts have been saved unlike many others ie Drummond mill!

 

[Seevio]

It takes more electricity to operate the digital clock on a microwave than it does to heat food in it.
You can “zap” your meal cheaper than you can check the time of day.

Unless there are some unmentioned caveats, this is very, very wrong indeed.