Official Cool Fun Fact Thread....

[Embraer]

heard something at work today that kind of blew me away. i came home and checked it out to see if it's real, and it is...


2 GRANDCHILDREN of the 10th President of the US are still alive. (John Tyler). Apparently the president had like 15 kids...some very late in life, with a much younger wife....and one of those kids had children very late in life, as well. as a result...two living grandsons of a president who was in office 15 years before Abraham Lincoln. pretty crazy, huh?

[romad]

Lincoln die in a bed and room Booth used often.

Robert Lincoln was seeing Booth's girl friend.

[romad]

48/2(9+3)=2

[cairns]

Here's one most people don't know:

The First World War was in its last hours, millions of soldiers on both sides were dead and those who fought on knew the end was near, as did English Private Henry Tandey who served with the Duke of Wellington's Regiment.

In September of 1918, on the French battlefield of Marcoing, he won the Victoria Cross for bravery, one of many medals the 27 year old would win during the 'war to end all wars.' As the battle of Marcoing raged, Allied and German forces engaged in bitter hand to hand combat. The defining moment for Private Tandey and world history came when a wounded German limped directly into his line of fire.

"I took aim but couldn't shoot a wounded man," said Tandey, "so I let him go." Years later he discovered he had spared an Austrian Corporal named Adolf Hitler.

Hitler himself never forgot that pivotal moment or the man who had spared him. On becoming German Chancellor in 1933, he ordered his staff to track down Tandey's service records. They also managed to obtain a print of an Italian painting showing Tandey carrying a wounded Allied soldier on his back, which Hitler hung with pride on the wall at his mountain top retreat at Berchtesgaden. He showed the print to British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain during his historic visit in 1938 and explained its special significance.

The Führer seized that occasion to have his personal gratitude relayed to Tandey, which Chamberlain conveyed via telephone on his return to London from that most fateful trip.

Henry Tandey left military service before the start of World War II and worked as a security guard in Coventry. His "good deed" haunted him for the rest of his life, especially as Nazi bombers destroyed Coventry in 1940 and London burned day and night during the Blitz.

"If only I had known what he would turn out to be. When I saw all the people, woman and children, he had killed and wounded I was sorry to God I let him go," he said before his death in 1977 at age 86.

[stomachmonkey]

Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music.

[Embraer]

The current official Hawaiian alphabet consists of 13 letters

[pete3799]

If your planning on moving to VT. keep these laws in mind.

Doves must not be kept in a freezer.

It is illegal to tie a giraffe to a telephone pole.

It is obligatory for everyone to take at least one bath each week, this should be done on a Saturday night.

Cars are forbidden from backfiring.

Women must obtain written permission from their husbands if they wish to wear false teeth.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by romad

48/2(9+3)=2

Hahahah. Awesome!

[Rick Lee]

Originally Posted by turbocarrera

- The Fender factory makes around 90,000 strings per day - enough to circle the world.

Uh, no. Might be missing a few zeros in that one. 90k strings are about 51 miles long.

[jorian]

racecar spelled backwards = racecar

Read that right here the other day.

[Hawkeye's-911T]

^^^Bring on the palindromes!!!! This may consitute a thread hijack - if so, my apologies

[looneybin]

a wet bird doesn't fly at night

[scottmandue]

Originally Posted by pete3799

If your planning on moving to VT. keep these laws in mind.

It is illegal to tie a giraffe to a telephone pole.

Well, dammit... I'm not moving to VT then!!!!

[M.D. Holloway]

You get 8 more with 77...

[RWebb]

Originally Posted by romad

48/2(9+3)=2

very funny!

[MBAtarga]

Originally Posted by Hawkeye's-911T

^^^Bring on the palindromes!!!! This may consitute a thread hijack - if so, my apologies

A man, a plan, Panama! (Teddy Roosevelt)

[M.D. Holloway]

The song Panama by Van Halen is about a car...

[Buckterrier]

Oral sex is illegal in Massachusetts.

[stomachmonkey]

Birds have belly buttons.

[Red88Carrera]

Manhole covers are round so they can't fall into the hole. Any other shape would be able to fall through.