Amazing...but true!

[Svensson]

Erwin Rommel was considered by many to be a military genius. But that doesn't mean we ever had a statue of him in Germany. Probably because he fought for a depraved ideology and no current or previous Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany would have ever dreamt of defending him in public or otherwise.

Amazing... but true!

[Pcdunn]

https://www.cnet.com/news/space-station-astronaut-captures-breathtaking-view-of-the-edge-of-the-earth/

Absolutely amazing and true photo of the Earth, showing its dazzling surface (lit up by electric lights at night) in juxtaposition with the dazzling stars in space.

[caz]

Abe,

(162) JOHN PEEL IN DALLAS (JFK) - YouTube

Radio 1 DJ John Peel (and Jack Ruby for that matter) was famously in the Houston press briefing when Lee Harvey Oswald was announced as the prime suspect in the assassination of JFK.

That - by the way - is not the amazing bit.

The amazing...bit was that he was there reporting for the Liverpool Echo. If he'd not had his head turned by radio and TV, he could have been working with Tony Devereux on the Maybrick scrapbook or even taking down Mike Barrett's confession in 1994 (if the latter hadn't gone to the Daily Post instead). Sliding doors and what have you.

Amazing...bit, true.

Ike

Hi Ike,

I'm pretty sure there's an even more amazing... and true! link between Maybrick's former home and the assassination of JFK.

IIRC, former tenants of Battlecrease House were in the US and on the bus with Lee Harvey Oswald on his journey into the history books.

Love,

Caz
X

[Yabs]

Jack The Hat Mcvitie was actually murdered by Krays for taunting the twins that his biscuits are The Great All Rounder with Wheat at the Heart.

Amazing.. but not true.


The thing that is amazing but true is that the Liverpool echo has always been at the forefront promoting equality between the sexes.

[Iconoclast]

I read today that Lennard Pearce, who played Grandad in Only Fools met and shook hands with Adolf Hitler! Amazing...but true.
Anyone got more nuggets to share? All I ask is they be Amazing...but true.
( Note: for maximum enjoyment of this thread, it's essential to put a mental dramatic pause in Amazing... but true )

Abe,

(162) JOHN PEEL IN DALLAS (JFK) - YouTube

Radio 1 DJ John Peel (and Jack Ruby for that matter) was famously in the Houston press briefing when Lee Harvey Oswald was announced as the prime suspect in the assassination of JFK.

That - by the way - is not the amazing bit.

The amazing...bit was that he was there reporting for the Liverpool Echo. If he'd not had his head turned by radio and TV, he could have been working with Tony Devereux on the Maybrick scrapbook or even taking down Mike Barrett's confession in 1994 (if the latter hadn't gone to the Daily Post instead). Sliding doors and what have you.

Amazing...bit, true.

Ike

[Pcdunn]

https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/04/world/hubble-squabbling-siblings-galaxies-scn/index.html

According to astronomers, the Hubble Telescope has captured a picture of three galaxies in the Lynx constellation locked in a gravitational battle. Amazing... but true!

[Pcdunn]

I can't help suspecting that story as it comes from a dealer in meteorite fragments. And he doesn't tell us exactly WHY the metal objects are "anomalies". Strange.

[String]

Anomalous Metallic Object Discovered Inside a 4.5 Billion-Year-Old Meteorite

https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-science-space/meteorite-0015376

hmmm.

[Abby Normal]

https://www.sciencealert.com/pulses-...-inside-plasma

Physicists at the Lawrence Livermore Lab have discovered that pulses of light inside plasma can go both slower than the standard speed of light-- and faster. This means improved lasers may be possible, perhaps even helping with clean fusion.

fascinating but not sure i understand. while light can be slowed down, such as passing through a medium, it cant cant go faster than the speed of light when traveling through space/medium of any kind.

The only loop hole ive heard of is the possibility of the universe as a whole expanding faster than the speed of light and the quantum affect of entanglement, where a measurement on one entangled particle instantaneously has an affect on the other entangled particle (Einsteins spooky action at a distance). But this is can be possibly explained by a change in one part of a system (the entangled particles) affects the whole system immediately-but no info is actually traveling from one particle to the other at faster than light.

[Pcdunn]

https://www.sciencealert.com/pulses-of-light-can-break-the-universal-speed-limit-and-it-s-been-seen-inside-plasma

Physicists at the Lawrence Livermore Lab have discovered that pulses of light inside plasma can go both slower than the standard speed of light-- and faster. This means improved lasers may be possible, perhaps even helping with clean fusion.

[Pcdunn]

https://www.livescience.com/pregnant-egyptian-mummy-warsaw.html

Another story on the mummy who was a "Mum"...

[Pcdunn]

I guess the moral here is don't believe the book's cover-- or the inscription on the sarcophagus. A mummy of a "male priest" turns out to be that of a pregnant woman, perhaps the first discovered.

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/wor...4wm-story.html

[Svensson]

This fact might be classed as more sad than true but I only found this out around two weeks ago. If you recall before the Good Friday Agreement TV stations would not use the voice of Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams. They showed him talking but his words were always read out by an actor. The actor was Paul Loughran who played Butch Dingle on TV in Emmerdale.

https://www.google.com/search?q=butch+dingle&rlz=1C9BKJA_enGB704GB704&oq=butch+dingle&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l3.4095j1j7&hl=en-GB&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#imgrc=H1QHnQyOJQowTM:

Apologies to non-UK posters on this one.

and who sounded exactly like Gerry Adams anyways..

[Pcdunn]

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/07/science/particle-physics-muon-fermilab-brookhaven.html

This article from the New York Times details something odd physicists have discovered recently: Some the tiniest particles in the universe are no longer behaving in the way they have been observed to behave. This may mean that The Laws of Physics aren't hard and fast. If so, is the Universe stable??

Amazing... but true.

(Hello, all. I have been away for a long time, had a lousy 2020, but have wandered back to the forum. [Waves])

[Sam Flynn]

Maybe more 'quite interesting' than Amazing...but true, but I recently discovered that mobile homes are so called because they were originally produced by a company in the town of Mobile, Alabama, rather than the fact that they are...well, mobile.

Fascinating stuff. I don't think the Mobile company was the original maker, though, because before they were called mobile homes, they were known as "trailer houses"... (not particularly) amazing, but true.