When people travel over to the United Kingdom, it can often be daunting with the wide variety of slang that is used to determine the different cities. Most people that live in the country will often not name a city by its standard name, and instead, use a slang term to describe where they are…… Read More »
The Prime Minister has made the same false claim about employment for the ninth time in Parliament, despite being warned by official bodies. During Prime Minister’s Questions on 20 April, Boris Johnson said there are “more people in work than there were before the pandemic.” This is false. The latest figures show there were 32.5… Read More »
We asked our regular contributors through e-mail What’s your all time favorite video game? We got many interesting responses. Here are some of them. We have just copied and pasted their responses, not editing them in any way. 1. Roller coaster tycoon. It’s one of those few games that I can be playing and get…… Read More »
An infographic posted on Instagram claims to show different ways of calculating the Covid-19 death toll in the UK up to December 2021. The figures are broadly correct but give a misleading impression without additional context. The infographic appears to endorse the idea that only around 6,000 people had truly died of Covid-19 in the… Read More »
Several posts on Facebook claim that Infosys, an IT firm founded by the Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s wife’s father, is registered in Rwanda. They also claim the UK outsources “many of its immigration processes” to the firm. The implication is that this is connected to the government’s recent announcement about relocating some migrants who travel to… Read More »
We’ve seen a number of Facebook posts with a list of claims about pensioners, telling people to “print this off, send it to a Rishi SUNAK and demand payment [sic]”. The 600-word long viral essay makes a number of claims, including some dodgy calculations that claim to show that if you earn £15,000 a year,… Read More »
In 1940, an insurance agent sold an $800K policy on the Tacoma Narrows Bridge and secretly pocketed the premium, believing the new bridge to be indestructible. The bridge collapsed spectacularly 4 months after opening, and the agent was jailed for fraud. The post In 1940, an insurance agent sold… appeared first on Crazy Facts. Source
