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Groucho's Fact Hunt

….the phrase in a tragedy at sea, ‘women and children first’ is called The Birkenhead Drill.

In the early 1850s the BritishArmy were involved in an incursion in Cape Colony, S Africa. A ship called The Birkenhead was sent to deliver men and supplies but disaster struck on 25th Feb 1852 off the African coast. With about 630 on board, including women and children the ship hit rocks and was doomed. The women and children were all saved in the 3 lifeboats, the soldiers were left to jump into the sea with great loss of life;

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The mural in the second photo is painted on a great pub called Gallaghers which used to have a barbers shop inside. Haircut and a pint!
 
So much interesting factual information and about things I never knew. I'm going to bore the ass of my mates in the pub!

And about the paper and halving it apparently it's nigh impossible as a human being to actually fold and halve a piece of paper without mechanical assistance more than 4-7 times and that is dependent on the thickness and density of the paper eg. very thin paper/cardboard v toilet tissue.

I've tried the latter but my finger still goes through 🫣
yes, the impracticality of folding a piece of paper the number of times I mentioned, effects a 'thought experiment' rather than a 'in real life' situation. A piece of A4 paper folded in half 42 times attains a 'height' that would reach the Moon (400,000km)...but a width that is subatomic in size. Having said that, a piece of paper sized half of Brazil's surface area (i.e 4million square kilometres), if folded 42 times, would have a final width of 1 metre.
 



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