Author Topic: Hilarious, dumb, or very unknown facts! (Read 21718 times)

Firelight · « **Reply #100 on:** March 25, 2017, 12:05:58 am »

My Chihuahua was secretly a hellhound

Rocket T. Coyote · « **Reply #101 on:** March 26, 2017, 12:10:04 am »

The Republic XF-91 Thunderceptor was the first service type aircraft to exceed the speed of sound in level flight.

Varg the wanderer · « **Reply #102 on:** March 28, 2017, 07:18:37 pm »

"OoRah" Of the USMC originated from Marines making fun of Navy submariners. The noise was used aboard the submarine to signal a dive.

Rocket T. Coyote · « **Reply #103 on:** March 28, 2017, 11:48:57 pm »

Nylon is named for New York and London, the two cities where it was discovered at about the same time.

Rocket T. Coyote · « **Reply #104 on:** June 20, 2017, 12:08:35 am »

Of the handful of WW2-era Martin JRM "Mars" flying ships that were made, most still exist and were converted to water bombers for fighting forest fires.

Rocket T. Coyote · « **Reply #105 on:** August 05, 2017, 11:41:56 pm »

Prickly Pear Cacti are native to Western Michigan. I encountered some while recovering a model rocket last weekend at NARAM 59.

Rocket T. Coyote · « **Reply #106 on:** September 24, 2017, 12:55:29 am »

A vixen may be helped by a sister in raising the litter. Vixens have also been known to adopt orphan kits.

Rocket T. Coyote · « **Reply #107 on:** October 12, 2017, 09:33:35 pm »

Kaiser Wilhelm established a colony of raccoons in Germany before the First World War.

Rocket T. Coyote · « **Reply #108 on:** February 24, 2018, 12:13:46 pm »

During WW2, a coyote named Jeep flew five combat missions in a P-47D Thunderbolt in the ETO. He was killed by his namesake and was buried with full military honors.

Rocket T. Coyote · « **Reply #109 on:** March 10, 2018, 09:38:40 pm »

Poland's Olympic Gold Medalist in Individual Saber Fencing of the 1968 Summer Games in Mexico City--Jerzy Pawlowski--was also a double agent for both the CIA and Polish Intelligence. He survived two assassination attempts by the KGB.

Varg the wanderer · « **Reply #110 on:** April 08, 2018, 08:20:19 pm »

Quote from: Rocket T. Coyote on February 24, 2018, 12:13:46 pm

During WW2, a coyote named Jeep flew five combat missions in a P-47D Thunderbolt in the ETO. He was killed by his namesake and was buried with full military honors.

Seriously?!

Rocket T. Coyote · « **Reply #111 on:** April 21, 2018, 09:21:34 am »

Quote from: Varg the wanderer on April 08, 2018, 08:20:19 pm

Quote from: Rocket T. Coyote on February 24, 2018, 12:13:46 pm
During WW2, a coyote named Jeep flew five combat missions in a P-47D Thunderbolt in the ETO. He was killed by his namesake and was buried with full military honors.

Seriously?!

Look up Wild Bill Crump on YouTube. There's also a children's story book based on the story, written by Sharon Chickering Moller and published in Traverse City, MI.

Jade Sinapu · « **Reply #112 on:** May 16, 2018, 06:21:53 pm »

Jellyfish "Turritopsis" is thought to possibly live forever under correct circumstances.

Rocket T. Coyote · « **Reply #113 on:** June 02, 2018, 09:30:04 pm »

The locals in Mackinaw City, Michigan refer to the tourists as fudgies.

Rocket T. Coyote · « **Reply #114 on:** September 11, 2018, 09:39:35 pm »

Wojtek was a Syrian brown bear presented as a cub to a Polish Scottish Artillery unit during WW2. He learned to drink milk from a vodka bottle and smoke cigarettes. He also drank beer and ate cigarettes. Wojtek loved to wrestle with the men in his unit. He could take commands in Polish and could salute. So he could travel with the unit, Wojtek was given a service record and rank. One day, during the Battle of Monte Cassino, while his handler was scouting for targets, the bear broke loose and helped the men carry crates of artillery shells to the line. As a result, Wojtek was featured on the unit patch--a bear carrying an artillery shell.

Wojtek survived the war and lived into his twenties at the Edinburough Zoo. Today a bronze statue of the soldier bear stands in tribute to his service.

Rocket T. Coyote · « **Reply #115 on:** October 01, 2018, 01:07:43 pm »

Neil Armstrong once expressed a desire to pilot a Spitfire. He was only permitted to sit in one however.

Rocket T. Coyote · « **Reply #116 on:** October 14, 2018, 12:54:58 pm »

Neil Armstrong actually appears in a company brochure for the Dornier Skyservant STOL transport plane. The photo shows him seated in the pilot's seat of a Do 28.

Rocket T. Coyote · « **Reply #117 on:** October 17, 2018, 12:03:21 am »

A green glass long neck Mountain Dew bottle appears in a swimming pool scene in the movie First Man.

Michen_S · « **Reply #118 on:** October 19, 2018, 02:24:27 pm »

The Dutch village Spijkernisse now has a "Silly Walk" crossing in honour of the Monty Python's Flying Circus. It is actually not the first "Silly Walk" crossing in the world, the only other known one was located in Norway's Ørje.

Rocket T. Coyote · « **Reply #119 on:** October 21, 2018, 01:17:55 am »

Quote from: Rocket T. Coyote on March 10, 2018, 09:38:40 pm

Poland's Olympic Gold Medalist in Individual Saber Fencing of the 1968 Summer Games in Mexico City--Jerzy Pawlowski--was also a double agent for both the CIA and Polish Intelligence. He survived two assassination attempts by the KGB.

This historic figure is a shirt-tail relation of mine btw.

Rocket T. Coyote · « **Reply #120 on:** October 28, 2018, 12:51:47 pm »

Next year's Team America Rocketry Challenge (TARC) will have Apollo 11-themed requirements. Among other things, the rocket will be required to carry three "astronaut" eggs in a separate capsule along with a digital altimeter and achieve an altitude of 856 feet (Apollo 11 landed at 0856) on an 80 N-second motor. A cash prize for the rocket most closely resembling a Saturn V.

Jade Sinapu · « **Reply #121 on:** October 28, 2018, 01:23:36 pm »

Electronic grade silicon must be at least is 99.9999999% pure. Also referred to as nine-nines or 9N, this level of purity means that only one in a billion atoms is allowed to be something other than silicon.
-Elizabeth Pavel, Ph.D.-

Solar cells are 98.5% usually at a max. The cost to go higher in purity is asymptotic.

Rocket T. Coyote · « **Reply #122 on:** October 30, 2018, 03:41:21 pm »

In 1936, Russia built a computer that ran on water.

Rocket T. Coyote · « **Reply #123 on:** January 20, 2019, 12:31:53 am »

One isn't supposed to fire 5.56mm NATO ammunition in firearms designed to chamber .223 Remington, though it does occur. Firearms designed to chamber both cartridges are now labelled ".223 Wylde".

FarFar · « **Reply #124 on:** January 20, 2019, 08:25:09 am »

In their lifetime, the average person will swallow 6 spiders while sleeping.
Not sure about the average fur.