Post up facts and things that hardly anyone knows...... (for entertainment purposes only. NO need to fact check)

[Kern Dog]

I think they wrecked about 34 cars during the Dukes of Hazards series.

The lowest estimate that was given was 224. The highest estimate was over 400.
34 cars ?

 

[Kern Dog]

At an estimated 310 decibels, the eruption of Krakatoa is the loudest sound ever recorded in human history. In fact, Krakatoa was so loud that for those in close proximity, the sound of the eruption wasn’t a sound at all. That’s because at 194 decibels, acoustic vibration transforms into a shock wave of a sonic boom, and the Krakatoa shock wave was so massive, it circled Earth four times before finally dissipating. Weather stations around the world experienced spikes in pressure every 34 hours — approximately how long it takes for sound to circumnavigate the globe. The Krakatoa eruption was one of the most powerful in history, due to a buildup of pressure in the magma chamber. It delivered the equivalent force of a 200-megaton bomb — four times as powerful as the largest-ever thermonuclear explosion, Tsar Bomba, detonated by Russia in 1961, which produced the loudest human-made sound in history...

 

[Kern Dog]

The naval periscope was a French invention. A French inventor, Edme Hippolyte Marie-Davy, created the first periscope for naval use in 1854...
Speaking of periscopes, this is 1915, and the Australian military's most significant military undertaking, the Gallipoli Campaign. It was a costly and ultimately unsuccessful operation against the Ottoman Turks. The landing at Anzac Cove on April 25, 1915, marked the beginning of a grueling eight-month campaign. Australian soldiers faced heavy casualties, including over 8,000 killed and 18,000 wounded, as they struggled to make headway on the peninsula...

 

[Unkle Krusty]

ANZAC, has NZ, in the letters. So let us not forget that Australian and New Zealand soldiers were there.
Churchill was the brains behind the disaster. 25 April.
I got this from my memory banks. Did not look it up.

 

[kiwigtx]

ANZAC, has NZ, in the letters. So let us not forget that Australian and New Zealand soldiers were there.
Churchill was the brains behind the disaster. 25 April.
I got this from my memory banks. Did not look it up.

The entire Gallipoli landings were a British F**kup.....from beginning to end. It's a wonder any Kiwis or Aussies survived that battle.

It must have been like shooting ducks in a Petting Zoo for the Turks.

 

[kiwigtx]

The naval periscope was a French invention. A French inventor, Edme Hippolyte Marie-Davy, created the first periscope for naval use in 1854...
Speaking of periscopes, this is 1915, and the Australian military's most significant military undertaking, the Gallipoli Campaign. It was a costly and ultimately unsuccessful operation against the Ottoman Turks. The landing at Anzac Cove on April 25, 1915, marked the beginning of a grueling eight-month campaign. Australian soldiers faced heavy casualties, including over 8,000 killed and 18,000 wounded, as they struggled to make headway on the peninsula...

@Unkle Krusty is correct - there was a large NZ presence there also.....seems everyone forgets that.

 

[33 IMP]

The british were kind enough to use battleships in the very early months of the war, to shell Ottoman positions, kill off some gun crews, and prove to the Ottomans how UNPREPARED they were, and how hopeless their gun positions were......,and then did nothing about it.
The Germans who became allied with the ottomans helped refine the defenses, provided guns, changed from one row of mines, to eleven rows, etc.
Overnight , during the first (actually second, if you count the one in 1914) naval bombardment, one hero ottoman minelayer laid 26 mines in an area the British had sweped earlier that day.
Next day, that tiny little minefield sank three French and English battleships, one of them in three minutes.
That loss was tiny, compared to the land campaign losses.

 

[Pops1967GTX]

BREAKING:
The CEO of IKEA was just elected Prime Minister of Sweden.The first thing he'll do is to assemble his cabinet.

 

[Unkle Krusty]

In WW2, NZ provided 21% of its population to the war effort. Second only to England.

 

[Photon440]

In WW2, NZ provided 21% of its population to the war effort. Second only to England.

That's impressive. Canada had a population of 11.5 million at the time and had 1.1 million in the war effort, so 10%.

 

[Photon440]

John Cage's musical composition "Organ²/ASLSP (As Slow as Possible)" was taken to heart in Germany, where it has been playing on an organ since 2001. Being played as slow as possible means that it takes months and sometimes years for a note or chord to change. The eight page piece is expected to finish after 639 years of playing.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smar...a-639-year-long-song-change-chords-180983750/

 

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[Unkle Krusty]

That's impressive. Canada had a population of 11.5 million at the time and had 1.1 million in the war effort, so 10%.

My Unkle won the war in Burma. He said so.
Same Unkle walked to the pub with his bicycle. He took the bike so he could ride home. He was often too cross eyed to walk.

 

[Kern Dog]

The treadwheel crane, or walking wheel crane, is one of the most fascinating examples of ancient and medieval engineering, powered entirely by human effort. Workers would walk inside a giant wheel, much like a hamster wheel, using their movement to generate the power needed to lift heavy loads through a pulley and rope system. First developed in Ancient Rome around the 1st century AD, it played an essential role in the construction of large-scale projects like temples and aqueducts.
During the medieval period, particularly from the 12th to the 19th centuries, the treadwheel crane saw widespread use. It became a common fixture at harbor docks, castle construction sites, and cathedrals across Europe. Major port cities such as Gdańsk, Strasbourg, and Bruges relied heavily on these cranes to load and unload ships. Some treadwheel cranes were even built into tall stone towers or sturdy timber frames, serving not only as functional tools but also as significant architectural features.
With the rise of steam-powered machinery in the 19th century, the treadwheel crane gradually fell out of use. Despite no longer being practical for modern construction, many of these cranes have been preserved as historical landmarks, standing as enduring symbols of human innovation and the sheer physical labor that powered early construction and commerce.

 

[1STMP]

The first item scanned with a barcode was a pack of Wrigley's chewing gum on June 26, 1974, at a Marsh supermarket in Troy, Ohio. This marked the beginning of the barcode's use in retail, which has since become almost universal.

 

[Kern Dog]

Adding cheese to hamburgers became popular in the 1920s. There are several competing claims as to who created the first cheeseburger. Some dude named Lionel Sternberger is generally reputed to have introduced the cheeseburger in 1924 at the age of 16. He was working as a fry cook at his dad's Pasadena, California, sandwich shop named The Rite Spot, when he experimentally dropped a slab of American cheese on a sizzling hamburger. An early example of the cheeseburger appearing on a menu is a 1928 menu for the Los Angeles restaurant named O'Dell's, which listed a cheeseburger smothered with chili for 25 cents…

Other restaurants also claim to have invented the cheeseburger. For example, Kaelin's Restaurant in Louisville, Kentucky, said it invented the cheeseburger in 1934. GTFO. One year later, a trademark for the name "cheeseburger" was awarded to Louis Ballast of the Humpty Dumpty Drive-In in Denver, Colorado. According to Steak 'n Shake archives, the restaurant's founder, Gus Belt, applied for a trademark on the word in the 1930s. Trademark applications don’t mean you’re the actual inventor…!

 

[Photon440]

I remember being in a restaurant in Maui, checking out the burger menu. They had about thirty varieties, almost all of them had cheese. I finally found one that didn't list any cheese, I think it had a pineapple ring and teriyaki sauce. So I ordered it, and the waitress asked "do you want cheese on that"?

I guess the cheeseburger has taken over as the standard burger now.

 

[71RRHI]

I remember being in a restaurant in Maui, checking out the burger menu. They had about thirty varieties, almost all of them had cheese. I finally found one that didn't list any cheese, I think it had a pineapple ring and teriyaki sauce. So I ordered it, and the waitress asked "do you want cheese on that"?

I guess the cheeseburger has taken over as the standard burger now.

I'm guessing you were at Teddy's bigger burger. I'm not a big fan, I think they over cook their burgers.

 

[1STMP]

I'm guessing you were at Teddy's bigger burger. I'm not a big fan, I think they over cook their burgers.

Never could tolerate White Castle
myself. Most I knew partied all night
and made White Castle their last stop
before hesding home to pass out.