Thread: Trivia and other useless but interesting items

Originally Posted by Saitch

I'd bet that the Triumph Tiger would have a fair number of victims.

Max survived it.

Originally Posted by Saitch;[URL="tel:3235319"

3235319[/URL]]I'd bet that the Triumph Tiger would have a fair number of victims.

As opposed to the Sunbeam?

"Did British mountaineers George Mallory and Andrew Irvine
reach the summit of Mount Everest in 1924 – 29 years before the first documented ascent of the highest mountain on Earth? It's a question that mountaineering enthusiasts worldwide have been asking for decades – so much so that many books have been written about the subject. New Zealand's Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay of Nepal are in the record books for their 1953 feat. But now US mountaineer and filmmaker Jimmy Chin has found a very old mountaineering boot on the Central Rongbuk Glacier below the north face of Everest – with the remains of a foot and a sock on which a label with the inscription "A.C. Irvine" is sewn.
"I think it literally melted out (of the glacier) a week before we found it," Chin told "National Geographic" magazine. So is the 100-year-old mystery of Mallory and Irvine about to be solved? DW tries to answer the key questions."
Mount Everest: The 100-year mystery of Mallory and Irvine – DW – 10/17/2024

Have to say this is my todays favorite trivia

"What clues to the fate of Mallory and Irvine were later discovered?

In 1933, members of another British Everest expedition found Irvine's ice axe at an altitude of 8,460 meters. Individual climbers from Chinese Everest expeditions in 1960 and 1975 and a Japanese expedition in 1995 reported that they had seen a very old corpse on their respective ascents. The altitude information varied between 8,100 and 8,500 meters. The information could not be verified.
On May 1, 1999, American mountaineer Conrad Anker, a member of an international search expedition, found Mallory's body frozen in the rubble at 8,159 meters. Mallory's leg was broken and severe head injuries were visible – clearly the result of a fall. Irvine remained missing. A small Kodak camera with which the two climbers wanted to document their ascent was not found."

Want a rare Series 3? Low milage, one owner:

1978 Land Rover Series III 'Royal Review'

£50,000 - £80,000 GBP

London 2024, Lot 349To be offered on Saturday, 2 November 2024

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From The Dean Kronsbein Collection
Offered Without Reserve

• Prepared specially to be used by Queen Elizabeth II
• Retained in military ownership until 2011
• Restored to a high standard over a three-year period
• Powered by a 2,286-cc petrol engine paired with a manual gearbox

Might even be clean enough to get through quarantine...

Should've bought it last week, maybe sneak in through amongst Charlie's clobber.

There's a romantic in each and every one of us, deeper in some.
I phoned another AULRO member, anticipating him being at his Armstrong Creek domicile, but he was out wooing his fair bride, at the local green waste dump.

How big? Excuse the almost political incredibly funny bit about a HUGE and I mean impossibly huge fine



"A Russian court has fined Google two undecillion roubles - a two followed by 36 zeroes - for restricting Russian state media channels on YouTube.In dollar terms that means the tech giant has been told to pay $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.
Despite being one of the world's wealthiest companies, that is considerably more than the $2 trillion Google is worth.
In fact, it is far greater than the world’s total GDP, which is estimated by the International Monetary Fund to be $110 trillion.
The fine has reached such a gargantuan level because - as state news agency Tass has highlighted - it is rapidly increasing all the time.
According to Tass, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov admitted he "cannot even pronounce this number" but urged "Google management to pay attention.""