I bet you didnt know that

New Home

Only in the US, I presume.

Ted_YNWA

Heard that on QI, one serving is deemed to be 1 tictac. 0.0001g sugar per serving (or whatever weight they are)

Greybottle

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

Heard that on QI, one serving is deemed to be 1 tictac. 0.0001g sugar per serving (or whatever weight they are)

From Tic Tacs own website...

Tic Tac® mints do contain sugar as listed in the ingredient statement. However, since the amount of sugar per serving (1 mint) is less than 0.5 grams, FDA labeling requirements permit the Nutrition Facts to state that there are 0 grams of sugar per serving.

Seems the weight is rounded up or down to the nearest gram so that's how it passes.
https://www.tictacusa.com/en/faq

Ted_YNWA

My phone can't do multiple app's all that well, I was round down as well.

New Home

This is cool and clever!



It's a bit like that story (I don't know if it's true or not) about the Americans spending millions to develop a pen that would write in zero gravity, whereas the Russians used pencils.

Ted_YNWA

Americans did not need to worry about pencil shavings getting into workings of space craft when pencil needed to be sharpened.

Lady Haywire

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

Americans did not need to worry about pencil shavings getting into workings of space craft when pencil needed to be sharpened.

:pac::D

Realt Dearg Sec

New Home wrote: »

This is cool and clever!



It's a bit like that story (I don't know if it's true or not) about the Americans spending million to develop a pen that would write in zero gravity, whereas the Russians used pencils.

Apparently the space pen story is apocryphal. NASA used pencils in space for years but they sometimes break while writing and that's pretty dangerous in micro gravity. But the anti gravity open wasn't developed by NASA but by Fisher pen company, who offered it to NASA for use (developing it didn't cost millions or anything). The Russians also adopted the same pen.

talla10

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

Apparently the space pen story is apocryphal. NASA used pencils in space for years but they sometimes break while writing and that's pretty dangerous in micro gravity. But the anti gravity open wasn't developed by NASA but by Fisher pen company, who offered it to NASA for use (developing it didn't cost millions or anything). The Russians also adopted the same pen.

Sell me this Pen

Irish Wolf

Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars <-- last song played on TOTP









(I didn't read the previous 5k posts )

razorblunt

The Bodyguard was attempted to be made back in the 70's with Diana Ross and Steve McQueen in the lead roles. It was deemed "too controversial" for its time so was put on indefinite hold.
In the 1992 version, Kevin Costner has his hair in a "Steve McQueen cut" as a nod to that.

New Home

New Home

On Aug. 31, 1994, Parks, then 81, was robbed and assaulted in her home in central Detroit. Keith called real estate developer Alfred Taubman, the owner of Riverfront Apartments, about finding a safer home for Parks. Taubman pledged to find the best home available.

When Ilitch read about Keith’s plan and Taubman’s promise in the newspaper, he called the judge and said he would pay for Parks’ housing for as long as necessary. (Parks passed away in 2005 at the age of 92). Keith served as the executor of the trust established for Parks’ housing.

https://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Journal/Issues/2014/02/24/Champions/Ilitch-Rosa-Parks.aspx

dxhound2005

None of the major confectionery companies ever used the word Easter on the packaging of their chocolate eggs. A myth has sprung up in recent years that they were forced to remove it by anti religious protests. But it was never there in the first place.

New Home

I think they did.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

When the author Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a young man living on the Colombian coast, he heard a story of a murder in another town. A groom rejected his bride on their wedding night when he realised she was not a virgin. Her brothers then murdered the man they suspected of taking her virginity. He later fictionalized this in his novel 'Chronicle of a Death Foretold', published in 1981.

But the really odd part is that the real life groom later sued Garcia Marquez for taking his life story. The court case lasted for 17 years but eventually the author won and didn't have to pay out.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/nov/30/gabriel-garcia-marquez-court-victory

retalivity

there are 3 separate airfields within 5 km of each other in Northern Ireland. They are all former RAF bases, and the only one still functioning is Aldergrove, which was turned into Belfast International Airport. One of them had it runway converted into a road, and other areas used for industry while the other is now owned by an engineering company and used for storage. There was a also a flying boat docking station another 2km south at sandy bay.



There were another 2 airfields about 25-30 kms south near lisburn, and 2 others on the other side of Lough Neagh. I believe that all 8 were functioning during WW2, in an area the size of dublin. They were heavily used as entry points for americans coming to europe towards the end of the war.

Fourier

A galaxy has been found, NGC1052-DF2, that is a strong confirmation of the theory of Dark Matter.

The galaxy has none of the bending of light around it that characterises Dark Matter and matches the normal laws of gravity without Dark Matter.

The reason this supports Dark Matter is that if Dark Matter wasn't real, then the anomaly in the rotation of galaxies would be due to our theory of gravity being wrong. However this galaxy obeys our normal theory of gravity and doesn't have the anomaly. Easier to explain the anomaly being absent because Dark Matter is absent, rather than some galaxies obey the normal laws and others don't.

If we find more galaxies like this, Dark Matter will become the more likely explanation by an even larger margin than it currently is.

Capt'n Midnight

^^^^

A Ryanair flight to Derry landed at the wrong airport.

Capt'n Midnight

Fourier wrote: »

A galaxy has been found, NGC1052-DF2
...
The galaxy has none of the bending of light around it that characterises Dark Matter and matches the normal laws of gravity without Dark Matter.

I have high hope for this that we we may find out the difference.



Neutrons are electrically neutral so they might seem a candidate but they only have a half life of ‎881.5 seconds so not that likely to have lasted for billions of years.

theoneeyedman

http://www.iflscience.com/environment/the-greatest-april-fools-day-prank-of-all-time-took-four-years-to-plan-and-involved-a-volcano/

With April Fools day coming, the story (that you probably don't know) of the prank volcano eruption in Alaska back in the 70's.

dxhound2005

The USA is the country with the most volcanoes. And 80% of them are in Alaska.

mzungu

in 1856, Radhanath Sikdar, an Indian surveyor (also a mathematical genius), calculated the peak of Mount Everest to be exactly 29,000 ft. Fearing that nobody would believe that this was the exact height and nothing more than a rounded estimate, it was decided by Andrew Waugh (the British Surveyor General of India ) to publicly declare the height to be 29,002 ft.

Today, Everest is thought to be anywhere from 29,017-29,029ft with the size increase caused by collision between the Indian and Asian land masses.

mzungu

dxhound2005 wrote: »

The USA is the country with the most volcanoes. And 80% of them are in Alaska.

Up to 1857 all those Alaskan volcanoes would have been in Russia!

The US paid Russia $7.2 million for the territory of Alaska. This means that for less than 2 cents an acre, the United States acquired nearly 600,000 square miles.

dxhound2005

They bought Florida from Spain as well.

Capt'n Midnight

For about $300m in today's money the US bought 828,000 square miles from France.

Modern day states Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska; the portion of Minnesota west of the Mississippi River; a large portion of North Dakota; a large portion of South Dakota; the northeastern section of New Mexico; the northern portion of Texas; the area of Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado east of the Continental Divide; Louisiana west of the Mississippi River

retalivity

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

^^^^

A Ryanair flight to Derry landed at the wrong airport.

Yep, and in 1989 a plane bound for aldeegrove landed at one of the others too

Snowfire

Irish Wolf wrote: »

Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars <-- last song played on TOTP









(I didn't read the previous 5k posts )

Video killed the radio star (the buggies) first song played on mtv August 1st 1981.






Neither did I...!

Ted_YNWA

While on the topic of songs, Al Martino- Here in my Heart was the first No1 in the UK Singles chart

Ted_YNWA

Sorry to stray off topic, was watching The Chase last night & question was looking for the common name for 'erithacus rubecula" .

You can say you have appeared on the show Rubes!!