Tell us an interesting random fact you stumbled across (Part 2)

In my práctica experience that would be: LA CASA DE ÉL… And never heard SU CASA DE Él…
But then again… Spanish use differs a lot by country…

E. G.
GUAGUA in cuba means Bus, wheras in chile it means baby… And dont get me started on the dangers of Pico here

Several countries separated by a common language…

…and random Capitalization.

We live in Ohio. Our gravel driveway is very long, and has a nasty hairpin turn & hill. After a snow, I pray the temperature plunges into the teens, or less. Because I have observed that, the lower the temperature, the more traction the tires have. The driveway is most dangerous when the temperature is up around 25 °F to 35 °F.

As of last year, Zak Starkey has been playing drums for the Who twice as long as Keith Moon and Ron Wood has been playing with the Rolling Stones seven times as long as Brian Jones.

So Steve Jordan will have to play with Stones until he’s 123 to equal Charlie Watts’ tenure.

Seems doable. (Steve has played with Keith Richards’ side band since the mid 80s though.)

If Jordan has the constitution of Keith, sure.

Undead don’t have a constitution score.

Never mind

Tablet with spanish screen keyboard, freaking out in english and throwing wrenches into things

That explains it. I find it funny, and I did hardly mention the accents!
I have found that many tablets can be pre-set to several languages and you can flip easily between them by, for instance, swiping the blank key left or right.

Steve Jordan was the original drummer in the Blues Brothers. He was also the drummer for “the world’s most dangerous band”, David Letterman’s house band when he was on NBC.

As Charlie Watts was dying, he told his bandmates that Steve Jordan was the only drummer that could take over for him. I saw them at Mile High last summer. OMG I wish I could move like Jagger and he’s 20 years older than I am.

Brazil has a program where prisoners can get time shaved off of their sentences by reading books and writing reports on them. I like this idea. I hope it’s restricted to nonviolent offenders, though.

“My report is on OJ Simpson’s ‘(If) I Did It.’ I found this book informative and instructive…”

I liked Paul Brickhill’s The Great Escape. It was even better than Pat Reid’s The Colditz Story or Eric Roberts’ The Wooden Horse. Many excellent ideas, clearly presented in an easy-to follow form. I’m going to read Stephen King’s Different Seasons next.

When you’re done with those, I would recommend Papillon, followed by The Count of Monte Cristo.

The life and career of Harry Houdini is always popular.

Indeed, I just “read” (on audiobook) William Kalush and Larry Sloman’s The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America’s First Superhero. Lots in there on breaking out of prison cells. Only some of it requires collaborators.

At its peak, the US Railway Post Offices provided 30,000 with jobs. Some (if not all) on board trains were armed. Every day, 10,000 huge sacks of mail passed through Union Station in Washington DC.