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

This is Markie Post , holding a post
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Kern Dog said:
The first fatal plane crash occurred on September 17, 1908, and it involved the Wright brothers. A Wright Flyer crashed during a military demonstration flight at Fort Myer, Virginia. The right propeller of the plane came in contact with a guy wire, causing the plane to crash from an altitude of somewhere around 65 feet. The crash killed the passenger, U.S. Army Lt. Thomas E. Selfridge, and seriously injured the pilot, Orville Wright. Selfridge became the first person to die in an airplane crash and the first active-duty member of the U.S. military to die in an airplane crash while on duty. He was also the first Army officer to solo in a powered aircraft. Wright suffered a broken leg, several broken ribs, and an injured hip. He spent seven weeks in the Army hospital...

The Wright brothers, by the way, had promised their father that they would never fly an airplane at the same time for fear that they would both die in the same crash. Incidentally, neither died in a plane crash. Wilbur died in 1912 at age 45 from typhoid fever, and Wilbur died in 1948 at 76 from a heart attack...
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I think you meant that it was Orville who died in 1948.
Here he is, sitting in the cockpit of a Lockheed Constellation in 1944.
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The Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow was originally intended to be called Rolls-Royce Silver Mist, but was replaced with Silver Shadow at the last minute due to Mist meaning "manure" or "crap" in German.
 
The Grand Canyon mid-air collision occurred in the western United States on June 30, 1956, when a United Airlines Douglas DC-7 struck a Trans World Airlines Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation over Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. The first plane fell into the canyon while the other slammed into a rock face. All 128 on board both airplanes perished, making it the first commercial airline incident to exceed one hundred fatalities. The airplanes had departed Los Angeles International Airport minutes apart from each other and headed for Chicago and Kansas City, respectively. The collision took place in uncontrolled airspace, where it was the pilots' responsibility to maintain separation ("see and be seen"). This highlighted the antiquated state of air traffic control, which became the focus of major aviation reforms and the passing of the FAA act in 1958.
 
On 5 August 1888, 39-year-old Bertha Benz drove from Mannheim to Pforzheim with her sons Richard and Eugen, thirteen and fifteen years old respectively, in a Model III, without telling her husband and without permission of the authorities, thus becoming the first person to drive an automobile a significant distance.

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Bertha Ringer, c. 1871, prior to her marriage to Carl Benz
 
Lee Iacocca attended Albert Einstein's lectures as a graduate student at Princeton.

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Albert Einstein never learned to drive. He thought it too complicated and in any case he preferred walking.
 
Canada’s three territories, Yukon, Northwest, and Nunavut make up approximately half of its land mass yet have a total population of around 120,000. They also have the highest crime rates, by far.
The largest city, the capital of The Northwest Territories has a population of around 20,000.
 
Sahara said:
Canada’s three territories, Yukon, Northwest, and Nunavut make up approximately half of its land mass yet have a total population of around 120,000. They also have the highest crime rates, by far.
The largest city, the capital of The Northwest Territories has a population of around 20,000.
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Your tagline is hilarious...thanks. :rofl:

I'd be interested in finding out the top 5 crimes in those areas...... drunkenness, seal clubbing, poaching, invasion of trap lines....???
 
kiwigtx said:
Your tagline is hilarious...thanks. :rofl:

I'd be interested in finding out the top 5 crimes in those areas...... drunkenness, seal clubbing, poaching, invasion of trap lines....???
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I'll try, DUI, meth dealing, theft, beating up RCMP, house invasion,,
 
Our murder rate is off the chart, and we by far lead in domestic and spousal assault. Violent crimes in general. Lots of people ask why I go to Mexico; I go to Mexico because it’s far safer.
Meth hasn’t really caught on here but opiates and crack, along with alcohol are destroying the small communities. I used to laugh at my sister who worked in education in the south. She would have perhaps five kids total with fetal alcohol syndrome. Here it’s not uncommon for a third of the kids in a class to have it. It’s the norths dark little secret.
 
Sahara said:
Our murder rate is off the chart, and we by far lead in domestic and spousal assault. Violent crimes in general. Lots of people ask why I go to Mexico; I go to Mexico because it’s far safer.
Meth hasn’t really caught on here but opiates and crack, along with alcohol are destroying the small communities. I used to laugh at my sister who worked in education in the south. She would have perhaps five kids total with fetal alcohol syndrome. Here it’s not uncommon for a third of the kids in a class to have it. It’s the norths dark little secret.
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I guess the long harsh winters are not as much fun as us southerners think. :(
 
Darkness. The darkness messes up a lot of people. Plus, when it’s pitch black outside twenty four hours a day and forty below there’s not much else to do but get loaded and beat the wife. Hay River isn’t so bad in that while the sun doesn’t necessarily come up, we at least get light for four or five hours a day.
 
I live in a nice, middle class cul-de-sac. About forty people, mostly but not all retired. No low income or welfare houses. The boy on the corner got beaten and froze to death in a botched crack deal. Four doors down from him the teenage girl got raped and stabbed sixty times by her ex. My back fence neighbour got shot while I was waiting for wife to get home for supper. I never heard the shot, fifty feet out my back door. Wife was late for supper because she was working on him. They patched him up so that he could get stabbed a few weeks later, but survived. Then in October they found his dead body in Alberta.
There is little random crime here, but there is a lot of crime.
Although all three of us work at the hospital, wife and daughter are front line. In thirty five years wife has seen stuff that gives you nightmares. Daughter, who is just getting into it once pointed out “Ya know dad, I’ve seen more sodomized homeless people then you have.”
She’s only twenty four.
But I’m dragging the thread way off topic. I will get back on track.
 
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