| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” 21:12 - Dec 17 with 97032 views | colinallcars |
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. |  | | |  |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 19:32 - Sep 11 with 906 views | NewBee |
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/ |  | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 19:56 - Sep 11 with 851 views | 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. |  |
| "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 756 views | colinallcars |
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. | | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 08:23 - Sep 12 with 575 views | hubble |
| 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. |  |
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| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 08:39 - Sep 12 with 548 views | Orthodox_Hoop |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 15:55 - Sep 11 by Mick_S |
Right. I’ve decided to boycott Porsche from now on. |
Wait until you hear about Volkswagen, BMW, Adidas, Puma and Hugo Boss. |  | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 08:43 - Sep 12 with 543 views | hubble |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 08:39 - Sep 12 by Orthodox_Hoop |
Wait until you hear about Volkswagen, BMW, Adidas, Puma and Hugo Boss. |
Perhaps more pertinently, also Ford, Coca-Cola and IBM all supplied the Nazi regime...
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| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 08:48 - Sep 12 with 537 views | colinallcars |
| 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. | | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 09:47 - Sep 12 with 470 views | Orthodox_Hoop |
The first ever film shown inside the White House was the totally not controversial Birth of a Nation. | | | |
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| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” (n/t) on 14:15 - Sep 12 with 264 views | jamesisaburyfan |
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| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 14:40 - Sep 12 with 227 views | joe90 |
| 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! [Post edited 11 Sep 15:45]
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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. |  | | |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 14:49 - Sep 12 with 204 views | jamesisaburyfan |
| How about a few “not a lot of people know thats” on 11:18 - Sep 11 by R_from_afar |
Corrour railway station, in the Scottish Highlands, is not in an actual settlement.
When the line was being built, the laird's permission had to be sought to run it across his land.
He agreed, on the proviso that they built a station for him.
There it sits to this day. You can get off there, you can go to the station cafe and you can stay in a converted station building but that's about it. |
You can recreate the “It’s s*ite being Scottish!” scene in Trainspotting too. | | | |
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