Who Knew? Some Fun Facts

[Paco Dennis]

 

[Pink Biz]

 

[MrPants]

Polar Bears aren't actually white. Under their white fur their skin is jet black!

 

[RadishRose]

When everyone was seeing the elderly Soviet dictator Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, they hadn’t any idea that they were seeing a 24-year-old guy from Dagestan.​

The body doubles idea became successful but soon the first body double died in a bomb accident.

Then after they made sure to have multiple body doubles of Stalin.

One of his body doubles was Felix Dadaev — he had a different fate.

He remained silent and concealed the truth even from his family. As the identified body doubles of Joseph Stalin are Rashid and Dadaev. Rashid even portrayed the role of Stalin in a propaganda film.

In 2008, 88-year-old Felix Dadaev got permission from Russian President Vladimir Putin to reveal his identity, he came forward to tell his story by having written a book.

Then after he also appeared in a 2014 documentary on Stalin’s last days on German Television.
https://medium.com/lessons-from-his...-stalins-body-double-felix-dadaev-11840e8400a

 

[Pappy]

 

[Babs2u]

One of the things I love about going to my local Costco that opened in 1989, is that employees stay for years, and many have remained for decades.

It's obvious that they're well treated, because they're helpful, professional, and cheerful.

I think also well paid.

 

[Pappy]

 

[Lewkat]

 

[RadishRose]

 

[Lewkat]

 

[RadishRose]

An Italian Alpino mountain specialist ziplines from one peak to another, c. 1917.

Although ziplines might be seen as an indicative of amusement or military operations, they have been used as easy and cheap transportation method during centuries, specially on mountainous regions, such as China’s Yunnan, where even ziplines were used instead of bridges.

In Australia, for instance, they were used for delivering food, cigarettes or tools without the need of crossing valleys and rivers, something adapted in war times.

 

[RadishRose]

U.S. soldier wearing a Brewster Body Shield, 1917.

The Brewster Body Shield, also and more accurately known as Brewster Body Armor, was the first American body armour to really be useful developed by and for the United States Army in World War I.

Essentially, it consisted of a breastplate with an attached headpiece, both able to stop machine gun bullets at an average speed of 820 m/s. The main problems were its heaviness, which was nearly 28 kg. and its discomfort for soldiers. An adapted armor of 5 kg was later created, which fit close to the body, and was considered more comfortable.

 

[JBR]

U.S. soldier wearing a Brewster Body Shield, 1917.

The Brewster Body Shield, also and more accurately known as Brewster Body Armor, was the first American body armour to really be useful developed by and for the United States Army in World War I.

Essentially, it consisted of a breastplate with an attached headpiece, both able to stop machine gun bullets at an average speed of 820 m/s. The main problems were its heaviness, which was nearly 28 kg. and its discomfort for soldiers. An adapted armor of 5 kg was later created, which fit close to the body, and was considered more comfortable.

I seem to remember there was an Australian outlaw who had designed & fabricated something like this.

 

[JBR]

Wouldn't this depend on whether the point of view was from above one pole or the other?

 

[Pink Biz]

 

[horseless carriage]

During the Victorian era, some doctors and the public believed the speed and vibrations of train travel could cause people to go instantly insane or trigger violent outbursts.
Nowadays, delays and cancellations can do much the same.

 

[Ruthanne]

 

[Paco Dennis]

 

[ChiroDoc]

U.S. soldier wearing a Brewster Body Shield, 1917.

The Brewster Body Shield, also and more accurately known as Brewster Body Armor, was the first American body armour to really be useful developed by and for the United States Army in World War I.

Essentially, it consisted of a breastplate with an attached headpiece, both able to stop machine gun bullets at an average speed of 820 m/s. The main problems were its heaviness, which was nearly 28 kg. and its discomfort for soldiers. An adapted armor of 5 kg was later created, which fit close to the body, and was considered more comfortable.

I'm surprised the guy is carrying a 19th Century rifle. Maybe that was all they had on hand to show while demonstrating the armor.

 

[MrPants]

Canada has more lakes than all other countries on Earth combined, containing a significant portion of the world's freshwater.

 

[RadishRose]

Pope Leo XIV In 1982​

 

[MrPants]

Pope Leo XIV In 1982​

He looks kind of Gangster with that hat, glasses and the burns ... oh those burns

 

[JBR]

I seem to remember there was an Australian outlaw who had designed & fabricated something like this.

This was what I was remembering. Armed-robber Ned Kelly designed bulletproof armor like this for himself and his outlaw gang, in later the days of a sort of war they engaged in, during the 1870s, with the Australian police. Apparently, they used ploughshare steel as the raw material, which they heated in a forge and beat into the needed shapes.

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