Groucho's Fact Hunt

[Ashtonian]

So what's mist?

Just the forming of the water droplets which is why it is less dense. Google has a better explanation of it like. But basically yeah, fog is for all intents and purposes a cloud at ground level.

 

[Philw]

Just the forming of the water droplets which is why it is less dense. Google has a better explanation of it like. But basically yeah, fog is for all intents and purposes a cloud at ground level.

I thought Cloud was just water that had evaporated and reformed once it got up to the cooler air?? Confused!

 

[Ashtonian]

I thought Cloud was just water that had evaporated and reformed once it got up to the cooler air?? Confused!

kind of yeah, and fog is that happening at this low a level rather than up there, hence why we rarely get fog this low down.

Blew my mind as well mate, really didnt think of it that way.

 

[Whistlin' Dixie]

Yang Kyoungjong (March 3, 1920 – April 7, 1992) was a Korean soldier who fought in the Imperial Japanese Army, theSoviet Red Army, and later the German Wehrmacht during World War II.[1][2][3][4]

In 1938, at the age of 18, Yang was in Manchuria when he was conscripted into the Kwantung Army of the Imperial Japanese Army to fight against the Soviet Union. At the time Korea was ruled by Japan. During the Battles of Khalkhin Gol, he was captured by the Soviet Red Army and sent to a labour camp. Because of the manpower shortages faced by the Soviets in its fight against Nazi Germany, in 1942 he was pressed into fighting in the Red Army along with thousands of other prisoners, and was sent to the European eastern front.[1][3]

In 1943, he was captured by Wehrmacht soldiers in Ukraine during the Third Battle of Kharkov, and was then pressed into fighting for Germany. Yang was sent to Occupied France to serve in a battalion of Soviet prisoners of war known as an "Eastern Battalion", located on the Cotentin peninsula in Normandy, close to Utah Beach. After the D-Day landings in northern France by the Allied forces, Yang was captured by paratroopers of the United States Army in June 1944. The Americans initially believed him to be a Japanese in German uniform; at the time, Lieutenant Robert Brewer of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, reported that his regiment had captured four Asians in German uniform after the Utah Beach landings, and that initially no one was able to communicate with them. Yang was sent to a prison camp in Britainand later transferred to a camp in the United States. After he was released at the end of the war, he settled in Illinois where he lived until his death in 1992

 

[Ashtonian]

Yang Kyoungjong (March 3, 1920 – April 7, 1992) was a Korean soldier who fought in the Imperial Japanese Army, theSoviet Red Army, and later the German Wehrmacht during World War II.[1][2][3][4]

In 1938, at the age of 18, Yang was in Manchuria when he was conscripted into the Kwantung Army of the Imperial Japanese Army to fight against the Soviet Union. At the time Korea was ruled by Japan. During the Battles of Khalkhin Gol, he was captured by the Soviet Red Army and sent to a labour camp. Because of the manpower shortages faced by the Soviets in its fight against Nazi Germany, in 1942 he was pressed into fighting in the Red Army along with thousands of other prisoners, and was sent to the European eastern front.[1][3]

In 1943, he was captured by Wehrmacht soldiers in Ukraine during the Third Battle of Kharkov, and was then pressed into fighting for Germany. Yang was sent to Occupied France to serve in a battalion of Soviet prisoners of war known as an "Eastern Battalion", located on the Cotentin peninsula in Normandy, close to Utah Beach. After the D-Day landings in northern France by the Allied forces, Yang was captured by paratroopers of the United States Army in June 1944. The Americans initially believed him to be a Japanese in German uniform; at the time, Lieutenant Robert Brewer of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, reported that his regiment had captured four Asians in German uniform after the Utah Beach landings, and that initially no one was able to communicate with them. Yang was sent to a prison camp in Britainand later transferred to a camp in the United States. After he was released at the end of the war, he settled in Illinois where he lived until his death in 1992

lol wow, some few years he had then.

 

[Whistlin' Dixie]

lol wow, some few years he had then.

Lucky he didn't go back to Korea; could've happened again a few years later..

 

[The Cowboy]

Yang Kyoungjong (March 3, 1920 – April 7, 1992) was a Korean soldier who fought in the Imperial Japanese Army, theSoviet Red Army, and later the German Wehrmacht during World War II.[1][2][3][4]

In 1938, at the age of 18, Yang was in Manchuria when he was conscripted into the Kwantung Army of the Imperial Japanese Army to fight against the Soviet Union. At the time Korea was ruled by Japan. During the Battles of Khalkhin Gol, he was captured by the Soviet Red Army and sent to a labour camp. Because of the manpower shortages faced by the Soviets in its fight against Nazi Germany, in 1942 he was pressed into fighting in the Red Army along with thousands of other prisoners, and was sent to the European eastern front.[1][3]

In 1943, he was captured by Wehrmacht soldiers in Ukraine during the Third Battle of Kharkov, and was then pressed into fighting for Germany. Yang was sent to Occupied France to serve in a battalion of Soviet prisoners of war known as an "Eastern Battalion", located on the Cotentin peninsula in Normandy, close to Utah Beach. After the D-Day landings in northern France by the Allied forces, Yang was captured by paratroopers of the United States Army in June 1944. The Americans initially believed him to be a Japanese in German uniform; at the time, Lieutenant Robert Brewer of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, reported that his regiment had captured four Asians in German uniform after the Utah Beach landings, and that initially no one was able to communicate with them. Yang was sent to a prison camp in Britainand later transferred to a camp in the United States. After he was released at the end of the war, he settled in Illinois where he lived until his death in 1992

Crappest soldier ever! Fancy getting caught 3 times, what a plonker!

 

[SailorBlue]

Cat facts;
A cheetah is the only big cat that cannot retract it's claws fully . It is also the only big cat that cannot roar

The Siberian tiger is the largest cat in the world

A black panther is not a separate species but is a leopard or jaguar with black pigmentation on its coat.

 

[Tramps_mate]

No mate, you are getting full 'credit' for that article. And isn't the messenger normally shot?

 

[summerisle]

Enid Blyton liked to play nude tennis.

 

[DualityNSNO]

I read somewhere that cats in the wild used to never meow unless for mating/territorial aggression, but when they were domesticated they learned that they can get our attention that way and started doing it, and now it's so far down their "line", so to say, that it's more or less passed on.

I can't really prove that in any scientific way as I saw it god knows how long though.

Also I know it kind of makes no sense, but then again, neither do cats.

 

[Huyton Layne]

Snuffy from Sesame Street used to be invisible to all but Big Bird and no one believed he existed as he was his imaginary friend. In the 80s he became visible as they didn't want abused kids thinking no one would believe them if they told the truth about the abuse.

 

[Tramps_mate]

I read somewhere that cats in the wild used to never meow unless for mating/territorial aggression, but when they were domesticated they learned that they can get our attention that way and started doing it, and now it's so far down their "line", so to say, that it's more or less passed on.

I can't really prove that in any scientific way as I saw it god knows how long though.

Also I know it kind of makes no sense, but then again, neither do cats.

It's true. Cats only meow because we meow at them first..

 

[Black Belt Jones]

Not a fact, but thought this may be appreciated by the fact hunt cognoscenti - a clue from the guardian cryptic last month:

Wears out wingers from Everton — Bill with disheartened Blues (9)

A lot of subtext in that clue - reckon the setter (tramp) has to be a blue.

 

[Ashtonian]

Not a fact, but thought this may be appreciated by the fact hunt cognoscenti - a clue from the guardian cryptic last month:

Wears out wingers from Everton — Bill with disheartened Blues (9)

A lot of subtext in that clue - reckon the setter (tramp) has to be a blue.

enfeebles?