The useless bits of info to see if we can make a million posts thread
|
The useless bits of info to see if we can make a million posts thread
|
30-10-2008, 01:25am
When World War II began, the U.S. government declared platinum as a strategic metal and its use in non-military applications, including jewelry was disallowed. To appease consumers who preferred platinum's white luster, gold was substituted in platinum's absence.
30-10-2008, 01:25am
During World War II, a German U-boat was sunk by a truck. The U-boat in question attacked a convoy in the Atlantic and then rose to see the effect. The merchant ship it sank had material strapped to its deck including a fleet of trucks, one of which was thrown in the air by the explosion, landing on the U-boat and breaking its back.
30-10-2008, 01:26am
In a poll taken during World War II, Americans rated Jews four times less favorably than Germans or Japanese (both whom they were fighting the war against).
30-10-2008, 01:27am
The British Royal family are 100% German in origin; their original name was the House of Saxe-Coberg-Gothe. At the outbreak of World War II, they had to 'de-Germanize' themselves for fear of losing the throne. The name 'Windsor' was substituted, and was taken from one of the monarch's castles. Queen Elizabeth II even had a cousin tried, and found guilty, at Nuremburg for war crimes.
30-10-2008, 01:27am
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
30-10-2008, 01:28am
The approximate cost to make the movie, Titanic, was $200 million, while it would cost about $123 million in today's dollars to build the ship.
30-10-2008, 01:29am
The last photograph of the Titanic was taken by Fr. Brown from Queenstown (now Cobh) pier in County Cork. Fr Brown disembarked at Cobh but was asked to stay on until America. His Jesuit seniors refused him permission and Fr. Brown went on to become a world famous photographer during the Great War and the years following it.
30-10-2008, 01:30am
In the movie of the Titanic, Jack Dawson said that he learned some of his sense of seamanshiip near his home near Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, on Lake Wissota. Trouble is, Lake Wissota was not even there until 1917, five years after the Titanic hit bottom.
30-10-2008, 01:30am
In the movie of the Titanic, Captain Smith is wearing contact lenses. Rose's collection of paintings include very famous pieces that were never on the Titanic (Monet's Water Lilies and Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon). The verses they sing at the worship service weren't added to the hymn until around 1937. Molly Brown wasn't called Molly until after she was rescued. When Rose's picture is being drawn, the artist is left-handed, but they show Jack as being right-handed. (James Cameron drew the picture).
30-10-2008, 01:31am
Two dogs survived the sinking of Titanic, yes that's right, two DOGS survived. They escaped on early lifeboats carrying so few people that no one objected. Miss Margaret Hays of New York brought her Pomeranian with her in lifeboat No. 7, while Henry Sleeper Harper of the publishing family boarded boat No. 3 with his Pekinese, Sun Yat Sen.
30-10-2008, 01:31am
In the movie, a man with a yellow shirt and a black moustache fell off the boat and drowned. Five minutes later the same exact man was seen playing the violin with two other men.
30-10-2008, 01:32am
McDonald's sell more than 1/3 of all the French fries sold in restaurants in the U.S. each year.
30-10-2008, 01:32am
McDonald's restaurants will buy 54,000,000 pounds of fresh apples this year. Two years ago, McDonald's purchased 0 pounds of apples. This is attributed to the shift to more healthy menu options.
|
|
« Next Oldest | Next Newest »
|
Contact Us
