Interesting facts

[The Pits]

I'm sure you already know, but it was in an external corner section, folded up carefully. It unfolded as it was lowered out of the compartment

 

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The top of the Empire State building was a hook up for airships.

 

[cider_and_toast]

The did manage to dock an airship to it (can't remember if it was once or twice) but it was considered way too dangerous to do regularly.

 

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Mr Bean wasn't shown in Italy until 1997 as Rowan Atkinson liked to take holidays there and didn't want to be recognised.

NORAD track Santa after a Sears Departments store newspaper advert, in 1955, mistakenly published the red phone number to "Call Santa" and the duty officer played along with the phone calls. They have answered children's phone calls and tracked Santa every year since.

https://spyscape.com/article/norads-festival-holiday-tracker-began-with-a-red-military-hotline-and-a-typo#:~:text=After%20all%2C%20only%20Shoup%20and,%E2%80%9CIs%20this%20Santa%20Claus?%22&text=Shoup%2C%20fondly%20remembered%20by%20his,'%E2%80%9D&text=%22The%20brand%20new%20social%20experience,challenges%20across%20different%20game%20zones.&text=The%20woman%20let%20Shoup%20know,'%20%22%20Pamela's%20sister%20Terri%20said.