We’ve probably all complained about the over-exuberance of TSA officials at the airport, but as annoying as they can be, there are reasons why invasive, elbow-deep body cavity searches exist. Here are 10 of the best. 10) Arr, Me Booty! Chennai, India: S. M. Thajdeen, a 46-year-old traveler booked on a Sri Lankan Airlines flight…… Read More »
Here are 25 Interesting Facts About Mail. 1-5 Interesting Facts About Mail 1. The UK Royal Mail ran an underground railway network in London of driverless trains from 1927 until 2003 to move mail between sorting offices. – Source 2. Up until 1915 it was legal to mail a baby by US Mail. In 1914,…… Read More »
In Britain, as in the rest of Europe, 80-90% of those hospitalised with covid are unvaccinated. The Economist, 16 October 2021. On 16 October, the Economist published an article claiming that most Covid-19 patients in British and European hospitals are unvaccinated. We’ve not checked the European data, but this is no longer true in Britain,… Read More »
A post on Facebook claims it shows a picture of an electric vehicle charging point, newly installed by Lancashire County Council, which is powered by a diesel generator. The post says drivers can use this charging point to fully charge a Tesla Model S “using a mere 9 gallons of commercial grade diesel”. The post… Read More »
A Facebook post claims that you can donate old LEGO bricks to a service that will wash, sort and donate the bricks to charities that work with children. The post, from a UK Facebook account, also claims the “LEGO Replay” service offers free shipping to anyone who wishes to donate. However, it is currently only… Read More »
A post on Facebook tells the story of a supposed conversation between former prime minister Sir Winston Churchill and his wife Clementine Churchill. In the anecdote, shared more than 1,700 times, Mrs Churchill tells her husband that she had been speaking with a street sweeper who had been “madly in love” with her many years… Read More »
A post on Facebook shows a picture of a young girl in distress alongside an image of a woman. It claims the young girl was a Palestinian called Sarah whose house was “demolished by the Israeli occupation” in 2003, and has grown up to be the woman pictured, a lecturer at a Canadian university. This… Read More »
A post on Facebook claims: “There are only TWO projects in history that have cost more than the Track & Trace app: the ISS (£72bn) and the entire US road network (£82bn). “So there we we [sic] have it: at £37 billion, the third most expensive thing we’ve ever spaffed money on is a broken… Read More »
An Instagram post claims that a vaccinated pilot died during a flight causing an “emergency landing and uproar in the aviation industry”. While the screenshot used on Instagram doesn’t specify the airline involved, the article the image comes from gives more detail. It claims the pilot worked for the US company Delta Airlines—something the airline… Read More »
We’ve all done it before. You have an important task to do, but you can’t bring yourself to do it until the last night. Eventually, the deadline comes, and you complete the task, but you’ve wasted a lot of time and caused yourself much-unneeded anxiety in the process. Procrastination seems harmless at first, but when… Read More »
A post on Facebook with over 700 comments says: “the Mayor of London has cancelled New Year’s Eve celebrations in London……and will not allow fireworks. Yet is it true that he will allow celebrations of Divali [sic], including fireworks?” It’s true that the Mayor’s office recently announced that the New Year fireworks display usually held… Read More »