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 2008 a British Airways flight to London hastily returned to Belgrade’s Nikola Tesla airport after passengers, fearing a terrorist attack, thought they could smell poison gas.
The aircraft was contained in an emergency runway procedure area at the airportwhile workers wearing breathing apparatus helped panicking passengers from the plane.
An investigation soon revealed the culprit to be a large container of curry spices in the cargo hold.
FOR MANY years German farm-worker Wolfgang Mueller dreamed of driving his 44 year-old red Massey Fergusson MF35 tractor back to the factory where it was made.
So in 2007, two weeks after retiring, he set off on the 700 mile journey to Coventry,towing a caravan.
After many days on minor roads, through several countries, he eventually reached his destination, only to find the factory had been knocked down years earlier.
Improve your vocabulary
Sequacious: Mindlessly adhering to the thoughts or opinions of others. Not to be confused with fidimplicitary – having implicit faith in the ideas or feelings of others.
Scumbered: Have you ever gone for a walk and stood in something distinctly unpleasant, probably of a canine nature? You’ll be pleased to know English has a word to describe this: scumbered! [That’s not usually the first word that comes to mind at the time!]
Apophthegms
A single fact can spoil a good argument
My life has a superb cast, but I can’t figure out the plot.
Innovation is hard to schedule.
