Little known facts

[belamyi]

 

[gsdx]

Just before the first episode of 'WKRP In Cincinnati', Richard Sanders (the actor who portrayed the hilariously-funny Les Nesman) smacked his head and split his forehead open. He was treated for the injury and began shooting with a rather large bandage on his forehead. As the filming progressed, the bandage became smaller. It was reduced once more to a Band-Aid at the end of filming. No mention of the wound was ever made but, for the rest of the series, Richard Sanders wore a Band-Aid on various parts of his body, but always visible for those who looked for it.

 

[Kyanimal]

Alfred Hitchcock appears somewhere in all of his films.

 

[belamyi]

Alfred Hitchcock appears somewhere in all of his films.

Wasn't that MOST of his films.

 

[gsdx]

When viewed from the Earth, the Moon appears almost the same size as Australia appears when viewed from the Moon.

 

[gsdx]

The Christmas song "Do You Hear What I Hear?" is not really about the birth of Jesus but in response to the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 when the world faced nuclear destruction.

 

[Kyanimal]

The Christmas song "Do You Hear What I Hear?" is not really about the birth of Jesus but in response to the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 when the world faced nuclear destruction.

Not actually in response to, but rather in light of. And, yes, it is based on The Nativity.

Do You Hear What I Hear? - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Thank You for the reminder about this Beautiful work!

 

[Kulindahr]

In its original context, a basket case was a soldier who had been so badly injured that he had to be carried from the battlefield in a barrow or basket, usually with the implication that he had lost all four of his limbs.

 

[Kulindahr]

The original meaning of "shell shock" was literal, referring to someone so close to an exploding shell that all or most sensation was lost on the parts of the body facing the shell.

 

[Kulindahr]

The word "strafe" came from the WWI German propaganda phrase "Gott Strafe England!" or “God punish England". It was printed everywhere in Germany, on posters, newspaper advertisements, even postage stamps. Allied troops adopted the word to mean an attack with heavy fire, especially machine guns, and it later became associated with the machine gun fire from airplanes.

 

[belamyi]

Generally assumed or expected to be so, little known as a "fact"...

 

[Araucaria]

Generally assumed or expected to be so, little known as a "fact"...

Probably true everywhere, Barcelona just happened to be the place somebody decided to keep track of the data.

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

I was born on the south side of Chicago.

 

[belamyi]

Probably true everywhere, Barcelona just happened to be the place somebody decided to keep track of the data.

Oh, you mean air quality is everywhere just as (not more or less) trashy as in BCN

 

[Araucaria]

^For the benefit of the other JUBBERS, google translate renders the meme belamyi posted from the original Catalan (not Spanish or Castilian) as "In the metropolitan area of Barcelona, there are more and more serious heart attacks on the days with the highest pollution." Hence my remark about it probably being true everywhere.

 

[belamyi]

^For the benefit of the other JUBBERS...

who would care... for whatever reason.

 

[Kulindahr]

I

I was born on the south side of Chicago.

I flew over south Chicago once. Coming in from Portland, the plane was supposed to land at O'Hare, but half an hour out the captain announced that O'Hare and Midway were in white-out conditions and we were being diverted. A few minutes later he announced that the Chicago-Gary airport was also experiencing whiteout conditions. Indianapolis was stacked too tight due to the diversions from the Chicago area, and we ended up landing at some obscure airport with a barely-large-enough runway that wasn't quite in whiteout conditions -- one of those airports where the plane doesn't connect to a gate but vehicles come out to meet it. The pilot was amazing, landing us at the extreme end of the runway so we'd have enough length to stop. Almost the moment we were on the ground there were emergency vehicles racing along with us, which was kind of exciting until thanks to a crosswind the plane rotated and we were sliding down the runway sideways. Somehow the pilot brought us to a halt just yards from the other end of the runway, and the moment we were stopped they popped the emergency exit slides and started funneling passengers onto them. I happened to be in a seat near a door so along with a few others I got to exit onto a rolling stairway like politicians use to make photo-op exits from planes. At the bottom of the steps there was a bus we went straight into; it held maybe two dozen people and zoomed us over to the terminal building; we got unloaded maybe twenty yards from the terminal and dashed across the gap.

Except for a visit to an experimental school near Gary, Indiana, I think that's the closest I've ever been to Chicago's south side -- and the snow was so bad I couldn't even see the ground as we flew over.

 

[Kulindahr]

^For the benefit of the other JUBBERS, google translate renders the meme belamyi posted from the original Catalan (not Spanish or Castilian) as "In the metropolitan area of Barcelona, there are more and more serious heart attacks on the days with the highest pollution." Hence my remark about it probably being true everywhere.

That makes me think of a visit to Monterrey, Mexico: the air quality was atrocious, so we only stayed long enough to see a few sights. Back then for someone living in Monterrey their whole life life expectancy was pegged at 48. A dozen years later after cleaning up the worst pollution offenders I heard it was up to 54, and most recently I saw it was 68, a bit behind Mexico's overall figure.
Back then the big killer was lung disease, but there were probably more heart attacks on bad days.

 

[pornoboy]

The famous Eiffel Tower in Paris grows on hot summerdays about 15 - 30 cm due to thermal expansion,
also tilts slightly away from the sun,
proportions in the pic are not quite correct...


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[ChristianGianni]