Stan Bowes, from Diggle, has uncovered some more interesting and entertaining strange but true facts for us – you just couldn’t make them up.
IN 2009 a couple travelled to Sheffield’s Owlerton Stadium, hoping to win a fortune on the greyhound races.
They took £50,000 cash with them in a plastic carrier bag, having devised a plan to bet on every combination of results for the six races – this would win them the £100,000 jackpot.
The plan did indeed work; except they didn’t allow for the chance of other punters winning. There were two other winners so the jackpot was shared three ways, leaving them out of pocket by almost £17,000.
WHEN LEE Chen-fan jumped from a building to commit suicide in Hong Kong, her fall was broken by a car parked below.
She survived the jump, but the car was destroyed. The owner, Chung Kai-chiu, claimed damages of $3,000, but failed because the car was illegally parked.
Improve your vocabulary
Absquatulate: To leave hurriedly, especially while attempting to do so without anyone noticing.
Muliebrity: Many words in the English language have to do extra service, having two – or sometimes many more – meanings. And some have an almost magical serendipity in their shared meanings – muliebrity is one such as its two meaningsare womanliness and stubbornness.
Apophthegms
A smile is the cheapest way to improve your looks
Opportunities are never lost; someone will take the ones you miss
Those who criticize our generation forget who raised it
