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New Home

A man named Göran Kropp from Sweden rode his bicycle to Nepal, climbed Mount Everest alone without Sherpas or bottled oxygen, then cycled back to Sweden again.

New Home

Suzanne Somers was fired from ‘Three’s Company’ for asking for equal pay with her male co-star, John Ritter, who was earning five times her salary.

AlejGuzman68

New Home wrote: »

Suzanne Somers was fired from ‘Three’s Company’ for asking for equal pay with her male co-star, John Ritter, who was earning five times her salary.

But Janet and Jack were funnier and had a better chemistry, IMO.

New Home

That's how they wrote the characters, Janet was not scripted as being the ditzy blonde. Christmas Snow, seriously?!

Anyway, FIVE times the salary? Chemistry or no chemistry, that's despicable.

Capt'n Midnight

New Home wrote: »

That's how they wrote the characters, Janet was not scripted as being the ditzy blonde. Christmas Snow, seriously?!

Anyway, FIVE times the salary? Chemistry or no chemistry, that's despicable.

They didn't write the characters because it was a copy of Man About the House of which George and Mildred was a spin off, which itself was copied in the US as The Ropers.

New Home

Ah yes, who could forget Yootha Joyce.

New Home

This sea slug, which looks like a leaf, can go without eating for 9 months, because it can photosynthesize just like a plant while basking in the sun.

Gloomtastic!

New Home wrote: »

That's how they wrote the characters, Janet was not scripted as being the ditzy blonde. Christmas Snow, seriously?!

Anyway, FIVE times the salary? Chemistry or no chemistry, that's despicable.

John McEnroe and Martina Navratilova commentators at Wimbledon. I think one earned £500k, the other £50k. Shocking!

New Home

Mozart has sold more CDs in 2016 than Beyoncé.

https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7597586/giant-mozart-225-box-set-2016s-biggest-selling-cd-release

Also, I want.

Capt'n Midnight

New Home

AlejGuzman68

New Home wrote: »

Any pics of the inside? I would love to see how he made it work,lol.

New Home

Well, for one thing, I'm pretty sure you're only allowed to walk sideways, and you can only sleep on your sides. Think Egyptian hieroglyphs.

Kat1170

New Home wrote: »

Well, for one thing, I'm pretty sure you're only allowed to walk sideways, and you can only sleep on your sides. Think Egyptian hieroglyphs.

The Bangles rented it for a few years

LostinBlanch

When Montenegro gained independence from Yugoslavia, it's Internet domain changed from .yu to .me.

cdeb

And it took the Deutschmark as its currency.

silliussoddius

New Home wrote: »

Mozart has sold more CDs in 2016 than Beyoncé.

https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7597586/giant-mozart-225-box-set-2016s-biggest-selling-cd-release

Also, I want.

Wait until Kanye West finds out.

its_steve116

"Maniac 2000" reached #137 in the UK.

silliussoddius

its_steve116 wrote: »

"Maniac 2000" reached #137 in the UK.

It deserved to.

its_steve116

silliussoddius wrote: »

It deserved to.

Can't tell if you mean that in a good or bad way.

Capt'n Midnight

Lockheed Martin managed to reduce the total number of identified problems with its F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter by two in 2020 – though 871 deficiencies remain.

The White Feather

There was once an incident where bits of meat rained down from the sky. It happened in Kentucky, USA in 1876.

It was called the Kentucky Meat Shower and was supposed to be seen by very reliable people.

The theories that fit best was that it was from Vultures who dropped the meat. Some thought it was lamb or deer but a piece was supposed to be identified to be from the lung of either a horse or human infant!!!! :eek:

Wikipedia page here

Scientific American article

Kat1170

There are 96 bags of human waste on the moon.

mikhail

The White Feather wrote: »

Some thought it was lamb or deer but a piece was supposed to be identified to be from the lung of either a horse or human infant!!!! :eek:

Colour me sceptical that those two things look alike.

New Home

secondrowgal

Cuckoo clocks were invented in Germany, not Switzerland.

Tempura was invented in Portugal and brought to Japan by monks.

humberklog

Panko was in invented by the Japanese during WW2.

It's made by passing an electrical current through a baking tin so no oven - therefore you don't get any crust and the bread becomes brittle all the way through.

"Pan" is the word for bread in Japanese and come from the Portiugese word "Pao" and "Kanji" is Japanese for Crumbs.

Pankanji- Panko

KevRossi

The President of Chad, Idriss Deby died on the battlefield this week, leading his troops in a war.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/20/chad-president-idriss-deby-dies-military-says

The last known European head of state to die in battle was Charles XII of Sweden who died in 1718 over 300 years ago. While a number of heads of state have been killed in assassinations or bombings, very few have died in actual battle over the past 300 years. Salvador Allende died defending his presidential palace from Pinochet's forces in a coup in 1973, but that's about as near as it gets in the past century at least.

Evade

humberklog wrote: »

Panko was in invented by the Japanese during WW2.

It's made by passing an electrical current through a baking tin so no oven - therefore you don't get any crust and the bread becomes brittle all the way through.

"Pan" is the word for bread in Japanese and come from the Portiugese word "Pao" and "Kanji" is Japanese for Crumbs.

Pankanji- Panko

Ko* is Japanese for flour/meal/powder/dust. Kanji* are Japanese characters derived from Chinese.

*They could potentially mean a lot of things depending on the context and pitch in spoken Japanese or the kanji in written Japanese.

cdeb

The Georgian word for "I peel it" is vprtskvni

Good luck pronouncing that after no pints

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_O'Brien_(politician)

Is a member of the opposition in the Indian Upper House.

BaZmO*

Every “c” in Pacific Ocean is pronounced differently

Mollyb60

https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

Lets you see how you'd fare with various different types of nuclear bombs. The difference between the normal nuclear weapons and the hydrogen bombs in terms of damage/radiation radius is scary.
Very interesting website but one of the main things that the author of the site was trying to get across was that nuclear bombs aren't the end of the world necessarily so there's no need to be fatalistic about them. It'd be devastating and horrible but it wouldn't kill everyone.

cdeb

Ever watch the film Threads? It kind of suggested those who died immediately would be the lucky ones.

Evade

Something to consider is the list of presets seems to be based individual warheads but in a Cold War East vs West scenario each missile would have had multiple warheads and there would have been multiple missiles.

After a quick google the UK government believed the Soviet Union had over 100 targets in the UK alone.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/05/uk-government-top-secret-list-probable-nuclear-targets-1970s

London was expected to be devastated by two to four bombs of up to five megatons each exploding over the city. Glasgow, Birmingham and Manchester were each said to be in line for one or two "airbursts" of up to five megatons. That's 333 times more powerful than the 15-kiloton US nuclear bomb that flattened the Japanese city of Hiroshima in August 1945, killing 140,000 people.

cdeb

Yep, that's exactly the scenario described in Threads alright. So a double whammy of more, and more powerful, nukes. Not nice!

Eamonn bulfin,the man who raised the irish republic flag over the GPO in 1916 was born in argentina and deported back after being arrested

cdeb

Santa Claus was declared bankrupt in 2015 - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/santa-claus-bankrupt-10465461.html

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KevRossi

Susanna Hoffs of The Bangles, recorded Eternal Flame in the nude. She continued to record most of her work after this in the nude.

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/may/03/vocals-nude-bangles-eternal-flame-susanna-hoffs-how-we-made

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSoOFn3wQV4

Realt Dearg Sec

KevRossi wrote: »

Susanna Hoffs of The Bangles, recorded Eternal Flame in the nude. She continued to record most of her work after this in the nude.

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/may/03/vocals-nude-bangles-eternal-flame-susanna-hoffs-how-we-made

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSoOFn3wQV4

Oh but when I'm teaching online it's "inappropriate" and "traumatizing".

Capt'n Midnight

Human Sacrifice will be illegal in Uganda as soon as the president signs the new law.

retalivity

"Barberskum" is the Norwegian and Danish translation for shaving foam.

This nugget of info was brought to you by the bottle of Lidl shaving foam from my shower earlier.

Professor Moriarty

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Human Sacrifice will be illegal in Uganda as soon as the president signs the new law.

Must book a flight for tomorrow.

retalivity

The world's first underwater roundabout opened in the Faroe Islands in December 2020.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-55195390

cdeb

John Harvey Kellogg is best known for being the name on your box of Corn Flakes in the morning.

He also had some...interesting views on a few topics. He wrote a book called Plain Facts about Sexual Life and, while on honeymoon, he and his wife updated the text to bring it from 356 pages to 512 pages. A decent feat considering it's thought the marriage was never actually consummated in 41 years. A later edition proposed ways to prevent masturbation -

In females, the author has found the application of pure carbolic acid (phenol) to the clitoris an excellent means of allaying the abnormal excitement.

a method of treatment [to prevent masturbation] ... and we have employed it with entire satisfaction. It consists in the application of one or more silver sutures in such a way as to prevent erection. The prepuce, or foreskin, is drawn forward over the glans, and the needle to which the wire is attached is passed through from one side to the other. After drawing the wire through, the ends are twisted together, and cut off close. It is now impossible for an erection to occur, and the slight irritation thus produced acts as a most powerful means of overcoming the disposition to resort to the practice

He was anti-sex, anti-alcohol and anti-smoking - and lived to 91...

silliussoddius

Snap, crackle and no pop

Captain_Crash

cdeb wrote: »

He was anti-sex, anti-alcohol and anti-smoking

He was also sh*te craic at a party!!

Professor Moriarty

Captain_Crash wrote: »

He was also sh*te craic at a party!!

Dunno. With that wire tying the top of his penis, if you dropped a viagra into his lemonade, he'd be great craic altogether.

Sleepy

cdeb wrote: »

He was anti-sex, anti-alcohol and anti-smoking - and lived to 91...

And was only miserable for the last 75 of those years...