Really TRUE odd factoids

[Joey Shabadoo]

So 99% fatality rate on a plane. Not good at all.

Only if it crashes I presume?

 

[classic33]

In 1885 one of the first electric tramways in the world was opened in Blackpool, and at its height had more miles of tramway than Venice has canals or Pompey has creditors, sadly only the seafront line remains today.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Only if it crashes I presume?

Not according to Classic

 

[classic33]

Not according to Classic

Survey by TIME, not me!

 

[classic33]

Only one out of every 11 million people will be in a plane crash in their lifetime. Dying in a plane crash is so unlikely that you’re far more likely to:

Be born with an extra finger or toe (1 in 500)
Get killed by a meteorite (1 in 700,000)
Drown in your bathtub (1 in 840,000)
Be murdered (1 in 18,000)

If you’re flying commercial – which most people do – you’re even less likely to be killed in an airplane accident than someone who is traveling in a private plane.

 

[Blue Hills]

""According to her(Bridget Hitler) so-called memoirs, in 1912 he was visited by his younger half-brother Adolf who got off a train at Lime Street Station before spending the best part of five months spending his time wandering around the docks and so on, not learning any English and eventually going back to Vienna in April 1913."

http://south.greyfalcon.us/liverpool.htm

more research needed classic - i note that you say "so-called" memoirs.
There's a book in it for you if you can back it up.
Not saying not true, just not really substantiated - i read again about the story somewhere recently.

edit - just read that well written link fully (did you?) - see all the stuff by respected historian Ian Kershaw. (been a book of his on my shelves for years I should read)
His detailed researches don't back up the story at all - in fact quite the opposite.

 

[Blue Hills]

No. It's totally true and a proven fact.

"totally true and proven fact" is a strong phrase.
please provide sources.
it is a great story of course, been doing the rounds for years.
may be true may not be.
I'd love to see the evidence - not being sarky.

 

[classic33]

more research needed classic - i note that you say "so-called" memoirs.
There's a book in it for you if you can back it up.
Not saying not true, just not really substantiated - i read again about the story somewhere recently.

edit - just read that well written link fully (did you?) - see all the stuff by respected historian Ian Kershaw. (been a book of his on my shelves for years I should read)
His detailed researches don't back up the story at all - in fact quite the opposite.

Everything rests on those memoirs, of which there are apparently two copies. One handwritten, the other typed and stopping mid sentence.
http://historyofliverpool.com/hitler-living-liverpool/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/legacies/myths_legends/england/liverpool/user_1_article_3.shtml

https://www.irishpost.com/news/brid...e-story-adolf-hitlers-irish-sister-law-155025


Odd that when Bridget's & Alois son joined up/enlisted in the US Navy the recruiting Sergeant was George Hess

 

[Chris S]

The DJ John Peel can be seen in the footage of Lee Harvey Oswald's assassination.

 

[Chris S]

The novel 'Absolute Beginners' was written in the 1950s. In it the narrator meets a left-wing trade unionist called 'Ron Todd' in a jazz club.
In 1985 a real-life trade unionist called 'Ron Todd' became general secretary of the TGWU.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

The DJ John Peel can be seen in the footage of Lee Harvey Oswald's assassination.

Oswald sent a demo tape to John Peel with the title “I shot the president but I did not shoot his deputy”. But the demo tape wasn’t rediscovered for another 30 years. It’s rumoured Bob Marley had heard the demo and came up with a copy in 1973.

 

[classic33]

On the 1st September 1878, Emma Nutt became the world’s first female telephone operator, working for Alexander Graham Bell’s company in Boston.

 

[Blue Hills]

Oswald sent a demo tape to John Peel with the title “I shot the president but I did not shoot his deputy”. But the demo tape wasn’t rediscovered for another 30 years. It’s rumoured Bob Marley had heard the demo and came up with a copy in 1973.

Wrong thread.
See the other one.

 

[Chris S]

Sodium ferrocyanide is used as an anti-caking agent in commercially produced salt. It can react with acid, such as vinegar, to produce hydrogen cyanide gas which is highly toxic.

 

[classic33]

The Tour de France is more popular than the American Super Bowl And The Summer Olympics.

• 
  21 day Tour de France race (3.5 billion viewers).
  Super Bowl (114.4 million viewers).
  Winter Olympics (500 million viewers).
  Italy’s cycling Grand Tour (775 million viewers).
  The summer Olympic games (2 billion viewers).
  FIFA World Cup (3.2 billion viewers).