Useless Facts

The type of riffle Simo Häyhä used is called pystykorva in Finland.

It is a nickname. It means spitz, a dog that keeps it's ears up.

That nickname comes from the front sight. (Hope you get what I mean.)

 

Even wild mice (and other animals) like to run in wheels.

 

That's a bit like the tabloid heading: Man Dies On Day Off.

 

https://newrepublic.com/article/129828/getting-clean-tudor-way

Interesting article pointing out that if done properly and with enough sense of attentiveness Tudor hygene could be more or less as effective in keeping yourself presentable. Although of course without any precise notion of bacteria the medical side would definitely have been less healthy but it's important not to exaggerate the difference there either.
The article doesn't mention this but they would also have washed their hair at least once a week with water and lye soap in late medieval and early modern times, and after the black plague awareness of the necessity of (begrudging) bathing was enough that some wealthy people like Elizabeth I had hot scrub-down baths once a month which is hardly nothing.

 

Winter storm in Baltic Sea has had 41.6m/s. (150km/h)

Ferry boats are having troubles. They must tape bottles to the shelfs.

EDIT:

I forgot that most of you don't know anything about these ferries.

They are quite big. Here is an example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Silja_Serenade

This is very old, almost 30 years.

203 meters long, 13 decks, 31.5m wide. Can handle 2 841 passengers. (Not so much in winter time.) Can take 450 cars. Can cruise at 23 knots (43km/h = 26mph) Four Wärtsilä diesels, combined 32 500kW (=43 600hp). Very, very agile.

Ice class 1 A Super. I means that it does not need ice breakers to assist it - practically never. It can operate with no difficulties with ice more than one meter.

EDIT2:

Waves have been about 8 meters. Biggest waves have been counted to be maybe 14 meters. (This is by the model, not metered.)

Baltic Sea is shallow. That makes waves more steep and shorter. It is a bit like long and gentle waves getting deeper and shorter near shore.

 

When ships, wind, spring or something else breaks a lot of ice, it starts to move.

When it moves, it gets packed.

If and when 1/7 of it is higher than water and 6/7 of it is below the surface, you can make very good estimations of the thickness of pack ice just by looking at it.

If the "wall" of pack ice is more than 2m, the total amount of pack ice is about 10-12 meters. If it gets frozen, it is too much for even 1 A Super class ships and you need real ice breakers to assist 1 A Super -ships.

Usually these "walls" are 0.5 - 2 meters. It does not look much, but most of it is underwater.

Thickest metered in Baltic Sea has been 31.5 meters deep including 3.5 meters above sea level. This is nowhere near that. But even in this picture you must think underwater to understand what is going on.

https://holotna.pic.fi/kuvat/Säppi/100324_620H.jpg

 

Imagine a huge clock.

Put yourself to it's center.

Imagine that it is so huge, that numbers 3 and 9 are in the horizon.

Circle is 360°. Your imaginary clock has 12 numbers. It makes 30° per number.

It has 60 minutes. It makes 6° per minute.

The highest point that sun reaches where I live is about 6° now.

Imagine this:

Twilight starts when sun is at the level of 44 minutes. Sun rises when it reaches the height of 45 minutes (= 9 a'clock). The highest point sun reaches is about 46 minutes.

That is our day in Finland where I live just now. (Except that clouds block the sunlight.)

People in south part of Greenland, in Whitehorse Canada, in Anchorage Alaska, in Petroskoi and Jakutsk Russia... are having the same kind of sunny days just now.

 

Tarmac is short for tarmacadam, or tarred macadam. Macadam being the official name of the type of road made of crushed gravel, named after John Loudon McAdam, it's inventor.

 

Sorry, but Snopes says no.

 

I reject your reality, and substitute my own.

 

Yeah, this. ^

 

Hmm. Expensive cartridges. Now, when I watch John Wick, I will be thinking about all the barrels of booze he could buy for the bullets he shoots.

 

You wouldn't sink into lava, it's molten rock and has a much higher density than the human body. You'd just sauté for a while, praying that the fumes would kill you quicker.

 

It's possible you'd actually skitter around the surface of the lava due to the Leidenfrost Effect.

 

Would the poor guy in Temple of Doom really have caught fire?

 

Been there, short days but the summers are great. My veggies blew up huge in Alaska. Only bad part, so did the mosquitoes!!

 

The temperature of lava when it is first ejected from a volcanic vent can vary between 700 and 1,200 degrees C (1,300 to 2,200 F). Flash point of the human body is around 3,000 F. Clothing would ignite around 500-600 so I doubt you would suffer long before your lung seared and you passed out.

 

In TNT the bio-mesh full-body suits people wear have layers that would snip their schnorkels! If they could even land!

 

These flew in squadrons and were the size of house flies. At times they could actually shade the sun.

 

Where are the dragon-flies when we need em!

 

Old guy I used to fish with would tell the same joke over and over. How do you kill a mosquito in the north? With a shotgun. Aim for the landing lights and they'll crash on landing.

 

Magnatars are the second worst thing to get caught in their gravity by.