Odd factoids

[classic33]

Fact: This thread is becoming more and more bizzare. So much so I fully expect the appearence of a Mr. Mxyzptlk on Cyclechat.

Member: 54731 you mean.

It's considered to be bad luck to start any voyage on Friday the 13th, in the maritime world.

The 13th of the month is more likely to fall on a Friday than any other day of the week.

 

[bruce1530]

professor Heinz Wolff was not a real wolf

 

[Drago]

Hitler hideout, the Wolf's Lair, was named in honour of Heinz Wolff.

 

[bruce1530]

To ensure food supplies were available for Hitler’s Secret Hideout, one area was allocated to farmyard animals. There was one hen, which became known as “The Wolf’s Layer”

 

[Ming the Merciless]

The Wolf's liar was really a bear and did not live in the Wolf's Lair like she told everyone.

 

[colly]

The Wolf's Lair eventually became clogged with animal fur. Hence the arrival of the phrase : Hair lair. Oft heard in the environs of Knightbridge, rarely in Dewsbury.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

It is possible to swim under Britain

 

[classic33]

It is possible to swim under Britain

It will of course require a large "air tank" or a very long air supply hose.

 

[classic33]

There's a swimming pool perched on the 57th floor of one of the three towers of Marina Bay Sands Hotel.

The SkyPark hosts a 150-metre infinity-edge pool that creates the appearance of floating off into the clouds while swimming.

 

[colly]

There's a swimming pool perched on the 57th floor of one of the three towers of Marina Bay Sands Hotel.

The SkyPark hosts a 150-metre infinity-edge pool that creates the appearance of floating off into the clouds while swimming.

It's a fact that it doesn't do to jump out of the pool on the wrong side.

 

[raleighnut]

It's a fact that it doesn't do to jump out of the pool on the wrong side.

Swimming in hobnail boots is banned too.

 

[Drago]

Hitler's proposed invasion of Britian, Operation Sealion, had to cancelled because Heinz Wolff ate too many sea lions to make the project viable.

 

[Dave7]

Sea Lions actually evolved from real Lions and are therefor closely related to them.
Or was it the other way round

 

[bruce1530]

In 1963, Professor Heinz Wolff had a minor UK hit with the single “Just like Eddie”.

The demo version of this track was recorded many years earlier, in 1944, in the Wolf’s Lair, with Eva Braun on backing vocals.

 

[NorthernDave]

Heinz Wolff had 57 siblings