At 10:25 A.M. on September 9, 1949, Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 108 took off from L’Ancienne Lorette airport outside Quebec City and headed northeast along the St. Lawrence River. The Douglas DC-3, with 23 passengers and crew aboard, was on a scheduled run between Montreal and the pulp-and-paper hub of Baie-Comeau in the northeastern… Read More »
In my early twenties, I loved the night shift. It was great to be able to sleep all day and stay up all night, plus the added bonus of there being less traffic during commutes and no lines at Starbucks. Roughly 20% of the full-time workforce in the United States is involved in some form… Read More »
We’ve all been there. You go to the office, and when you meet with your coworker—it’s usually the same ones—they start complaining about everything: the higher management, the whole company, and even non-work-related topics, such as sports, family, government, and more. The worst part is that you feel like your coworker expects you to sympathize… Read More »
In 2013, an angler won £800 in a fishing completion with a 13lb Bass, he then sold it to a fishmonger. However he had stolen it from a local aquarium, another competitor recognized it, and tipped off the police. He was arrested and admitted to theft and fraud. The post 25 Kickass Random Facts List… Read More »
18 years after the EU ordered us to remove Crown symbol from our pint glasses, Boris brings them back for Jubilee. Mail on Sunday, 29 May 2022 . A Mail on Sunday front page article claims that the crown symbol on pint glasses will be reintroduced by the government to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee,… Read More »
When life hits you hard, you feel frustrated, lost and miserable. This is normal. When things don’t go as planned, we start to experience a lack of control, and that is truly depressing. It affects how we behave; it prevents us from being happy, and we feel stressed out as a result of all the… Read More »
A post on Facebook with a screenshot of a tweet says: “If the estimated £1 billion being spent on the jubilee was divided amongst the 26 million households in the UK, it would mean a windfall for each household of £38,000. Now that would be something to celebrate. Abolish the monarchy now.” The maths in… Read More »
A Facebook post falsely claims that the Queen was found guilty in a missing children case. The post states that a whistleblower was “incarcerated” for “daring to ask superiors about Queen Elizabeth’s outstanding arrest warrant”, which was supposedly issued in 2013 by the International Common Law Court of Justice in Brussels and led to the… Read More »
