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True ones please. Samuel Goldwyn of Metro Goldwyn Mayer films is offically named Samuel Goldfish. When he emigrated to the US from Poland, his actual name was Schmuel Goldfisz. The immigration officail misheard it as Samuel Goldfish which he remained for some years. Notta Lotta People Know That.
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How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 19:32 - Sep 11 with 5185 views
Meanwhile, when you order a steak "extra rare", that red liquid on your plate isn't actually blood, for all the blood from the animal will have been drained off at slaughter.
"Instead, what you’re looking at is a combination of water, which makes up about 75 per cent of meat, and a protein found in muscle tissue called myoglobin. If that name sounds familiar, it’s probably because it sounds a bit like hemoglobin, the protein that transports oxygen in blood. Yes, there’s that word again, but myoglobin isn’t blood (honest!) – instead, its job is to transport oxygen through muscle. Myoglobin looks like blood on your plate because, like hemoglobin, the iron in myoglobin turns red when it is exposed to oxygen. That’s why muscle tissue is red. Most mammals have plenty of myoglobin in their tissue, which is why meat that comes from mammals – including beef, lamb and pork – is known as ‘red meat’, and meat that comes from animals with low levels of myoglobin (like most poultry) or no myoglobin at all (like some sea life) is known as ‘white meat’." https://steakschool.com/learn/red-liquid-steak-plate-not-blood/
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How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 19:56 - Sep 11 with 5143 views
One of my favourite rock and roll stories concerns Krautrock supergroup Cosmic Jokers. In a nutshell, a crafty producer invites a gaggle of talented musicians to a series of lavish acid parties. Without telling said musicians, he surreptitiously turns their jams into an LP and releases it!
More below, taken from independent music review website Allmusic.com
One day in 1974, Manuel Göttsching, guitarist for the legendary Krautrock band Ash Ra Tempel, walked into a Berlin record store and heard some wildly cosmic guitar sounds blasting from the speakers. He was shocked to discover that he was listening to a new Krautrock supergroup, and that he in fact was the guitarist. The Cosmic Jokers were the greatest Krautrock supergroup that never was, a cosmic joke even on most of the musicians who played on the sessions, unbeknownst they were members of this new "group." Over several months in early 1973, producer Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser organized several wild acid parties at Dieter Dierks' sound studio, where the musicians played in exchange for a small fee and all the hallucinogens they could ingest. These musicians included Göttsching and Klaus Schulze of Ash Ra Tempel, Jurgen Dollase and Harald Grosskopf of Wallenstein, and Dierks himself. They had all been part of the Cosmic Couriers, a loose group that had musically backed Kaiser-produced records by Swiss artist/poet Sergius Golowin, gypsy Tarot-reader Walter Wegmuller, and even acid guru Timothy Leary the year before.
From these 1973 sessions, the Cosmic Jokers were born, as Kaiser and Dierks edited and mixed the material and slapped it out on vinyl on Kaiser's Kosmiche Musik label without the other musicians knowing anything about it until the records appeared in stores, even as their pictures were posted prominently on the covers.
"Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1."
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How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 21:48 - Sep 11 with 5048 views
The saying “sleep tight” comes from Victorian times when homeless people or dossers as they were unkindly called would pay a penny to sleep slumped over a rope going from one wall to the opposite. The tighter the rope, the more comfortable.
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How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 08:23 - Sep 12 with 4862 views
How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 19:26 - Sep 11 by NewBee
Probably reasonably well known, but BSA, famous for its motorbikes, was originally Birmingham Small Arms, dating from 1861 in the Gun Quarter (who knew that B'ham had one of those?). Anyhow: "BSA was a major British industrial combine, a group of businesses manufacturing military and sporting firearms; bicycles; motorcycles; cars; buses and bodies; steel; iron castings; hand, power, and machine tools; coal cleaning and handling plants; sintered metals; and hard chrome process."
Anyhow, went to hell after WWII, with various businesses sold off or gone bust, HMG nationalised the remnants in 1973, soon after disappearing completely.
I had a BSA air rifle as a lad, and I absolutely loved their motorbikes, the 650 Gold Star being my favourite.
The BSA brand was recently acquired by an Indian company and they're now resurrected and manufactured there. The classic Royal Enfield motorbike has also been manufactured in India for years. For most of the era of the Indian Enfield they were pretty poor, being based solidly on the original with almost no modernisation. However they have massively improved in recent years and are now rather tasty machines. Interestingly, Royal Enfield also started life as a small arms manufacturer, supplying the government's Royal Small Arms factory, based in.... Enfield. And I guess not a lot of people know that.
How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 08:23 - Sep 12 by hubble
I had a BSA air rifle as a lad, and I absolutely loved their motorbikes, the 650 Gold Star being my favourite.
The BSA brand was recently acquired by an Indian company and they're now resurrected and manufactured there. The classic Royal Enfield motorbike has also been manufactured in India for years. For most of the era of the Indian Enfield they were pretty poor, being based solidly on the original with almost no modernisation. However they have massively improved in recent years and are now rather tasty machines. Interestingly, Royal Enfield also started life as a small arms manufacturer, supplying the government's Royal Small Arms factory, based in.... Enfield. And I guess not a lot of people know that.
I had a BSA….Bloody Sore Arse I used to call it.
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How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 09:47 - Sep 12 with 4757 views
How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 15:43 - Sep 11 by Orthodox_Hoop
Not only did Ferdinand Porsche make tractors, he also helped design tanks for the Wehrmacht in WW2. I believe he was also an an honorary officer of the SS!
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He also designed the VW Beetle. I also didn't know that VW was started by the Nazi, but only turned into an international brand that we know today after WW2, after the factory came under British control.
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How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 14:49 - Sep 12 with 4496 views
When asking people if they have a favourable or unfavourable view of politicians, YouGov include a test example of a made-up name.
Usually around 85-90% of correspondents will say "Don't Know" about the non-existent politician but 10-15% have an opinion about someone who doesn't exist, and it's generally about net 10% negative.
Worth remembering when you see a player getting pelters on social media (or if it's happening to you I suppose) that getting on for 10% of British people are instinctively negative about absolutely bloody anyone, even if that person has literally done nothing.
Also that around 90% of people aren't but don't appear in the stats because they are too sensible to shout the odds about something they don't know or care about.
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How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 16:51 - Sep 17 with 3137 views
How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 08:43 - Sep 12 by hubble
Perhaps more pertinently, also Ford, Coca-Cola and IBM all supplied the Nazi regime...
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Fanta originated in Germany as a Coca-Cola alternative in 1941 due to the American trade embargo of Nazi Germany which affected the availability of ingredients [for Coca-Cola Deutschland]. Fanta soon dominated the German market with three million cases sold in 1943. The current formulation of Fanta, with orange flavor, was developed in Italy in 1955.
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How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 09:00 - Sep 18 with 2906 views
How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 16:51 - Sep 17 by NewBee
Fanta originated in Germany as a Coca-Cola alternative in 1941 due to the American trade embargo of Nazi Germany which affected the availability of ingredients [for Coca-Cola Deutschland]. Fanta soon dominated the German market with three million cases sold in 1943. The current formulation of Fanta, with orange flavor, was developed in Italy in 1955.
How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 19:56 - Sep 11 by R_from_afar
One of my favourite rock and roll stories concerns Krautrock supergroup Cosmic Jokers. In a nutshell, a crafty producer invites a gaggle of talented musicians to a series of lavish acid parties. Without telling said musicians, he surreptitiously turns their jams into an LP and releases it!
More below, taken from independent music review website Allmusic.com
One day in 1974, Manuel Göttsching, guitarist for the legendary Krautrock band Ash Ra Tempel, walked into a Berlin record store and heard some wildly cosmic guitar sounds blasting from the speakers. He was shocked to discover that he was listening to a new Krautrock supergroup, and that he in fact was the guitarist. The Cosmic Jokers were the greatest Krautrock supergroup that never was, a cosmic joke even on most of the musicians who played on the sessions, unbeknownst they were members of this new "group." Over several months in early 1973, producer Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser organized several wild acid parties at Dieter Dierks' sound studio, where the musicians played in exchange for a small fee and all the hallucinogens they could ingest. These musicians included Göttsching and Klaus Schulze of Ash Ra Tempel, Jurgen Dollase and Harald Grosskopf of Wallenstein, and Dierks himself. They had all been part of the Cosmic Couriers, a loose group that had musically backed Kaiser-produced records by Swiss artist/poet Sergius Golowin, gypsy Tarot-reader Walter Wegmuller, and even acid guru Timothy Leary the year before.
From these 1973 sessions, the Cosmic Jokers were born, as Kaiser and Dierks edited and mixed the material and slapped it out on vinyl on Kaiser's Kosmiche Musik label without the other musicians knowing anything about it until the records appeared in stores, even as their pictures were posted prominently on the covers.
Manuel Gottsching's soundtrack E2-E4 also provided the backing track for the classic house/electro track 'Sueno Latino' that was stolen and replicated by Detroit legend Derek May. Original -
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How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 07:48 - Sep 19 with 2418 views
How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 07:28 - Sep 19 by 100percent
Manuel Gottsching's soundtrack E2-E4 also provided the backing track for the classic house/electro track 'Sueno Latino' that was stolen and replicated by Detroit legend Derek May. Original -
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Göttsching would later say the cover design of the 1984 LP was heavily influenced by a QPR programme 15 years earlier from 1969. “It was” said Gõttching, “the finest football programme the world has ever seen”
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How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 10:44 - Sep 19 with 2260 views
How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 14:49 - Sep 12 by jamesisaburyfan
You can recreate the “It’s s*ite being Scottish!” scene in Trainspotting too.
It’s also the starting point for a number of excellent hikes. While staying in Fort William we trained it to Corrour station and climbed Stob Coire Easain. Then trained out again from Roybridge ( the next stop up the line but about 10 miles away). The scenery is magnificent.
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How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 14:48 - Sep 19 with 2073 views
Victorian pubs sold pints of gin and quarts of ale. When someone was orf dahn the rub-a-dub they would be told to “mind your Ps and Qs” However the original saying derived from P and Q looking similar when written in longhand.
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How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 14:50 - Sep 20 with 1641 views
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