The story of the enormous goldfish is yet another example of why people shouldn’t just free pets in the wild when they’re non-native species. Really either find someone else to adopt the pet or just kill it.
Today I learned that during WWII, bomber crews and fighter pilots would take up ammo cans filled with cream/canned milk (and other ingredients) and the vibration of the plane and the cold at altitude would churn it into ice cream.
How about the Ike jacket and the hachimaki, at least in the West?
Delighted (and surprised) to be able to fill a gap in your musical knowledge.
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It’s horrible, but places that raise chickens that can use their bodies are more susceptible to this condition, which happens when over-muscled chickens use their bodies. The solution, apart from breading chickens which have less muscle, is to keep the chickens quiet, relaxed, and unstressed.
An equivalent condition in humans was called ‘marching gangrene’, when soldiers were forced to march long periods, causing swollen leg muscles.
Suppose you find a perfect condition Ford Model-T in your grandparent’s barn. How much would you guess it’s worth? A million? Five million? Nope, between $17,600 - $24,200. About half the $40K average price of cars coming off the production line today.
I knew, but I’ve been involved in stage lighting since the early 1970s. 
This was true until sometime in the 1980s, by which time carbon arcs had mostly been replaced by more reliable and simpler xenon lamps (as mentioned in the wiki @Treppenwitz linked to).
Carbon arcs were also used in movie projectors from the 1920s (perhaps earlier) into the '50s or '60s. This very powerful and somewhat unpredictable ignition source, combined with the explosively flammable nitrate film stock that was ubiquitous until “safety film” was invented in the late 1940s, made projection booths extremely dangerous places in which to work. (If not stored properly, deteriorating nitrate prints could form puddles of nitroglycerin!)
Projection booths built before the late 1950s were required to have an asbestos safety curtain on their front wall that the projecionist was expected to drop (often by cutting a rope with an axe) at the first sign of a fire.
At first that may be surprising, but wait: supply and demand.
With 15 million sold, it stood eighth on the top-ten list of most sold cars of all time, as of 2012.[15]
If one percent are still out there, that’s 150,000 to choose from.
Best-selling car of all time?
Hint 1:
It isn’t American
Hint 2:
It isn’t German (sorry, not the Beetle).
Got your answer?
The Toyota Corolla. 44 million sold, as of 2016, almost three times the number of Model T’s. Toyota Corolla - Wikipedia
At my ancestors school in Lansing Michigan, the projection booth hung out the back of the theater. When the film caught fire, the projectionist pushed the projector sideways out of the window, pulled the fire alarm, and called the school office. This would have been only a few years after the Kerns Hotel fire - Wikipedia. The fire department, receiving fire alarms from both ends of the school (office and theater), formed the belief that the entire school in between was on fire, and moved every appliance in the city. Other trucks from further out moved in to cover the area. While the kids were forming up outside, trucks arrived and rolled out the hoses from the moving trucks, and a ladder truck arrived and pushed a ladder through a second-story window to form a rescue route. The film burned out on the ground.
How about aviator sunglasses?
If you go to a hotrod show, you probably won’t see any Model T cars. But you’ll see lots of Model A cars.
I once heard there are more Model A cars currently in existence than were originally built. I am assuming this is due to kits.
There are several museums that offer classes on how to drive a Model T.
Learn to Drive a Model T Ford…operated with 3 foot pedals (No Gas Pedal!), one hand lever, and two hand controls on the steering wheel!
Secure a seat behind the wheel of an AUTHENTIC Model T Ford, built between 1908 and 1927 — right out of the Museum’s fleet of vintage vehicles — and drive 3 miles on paved roads within our historic campus with an experienced and enthusiastic instructor.
I believe The Henry Ford museum complex in Dearborn, MI, offered them, too, but Covid seems to have put the kibosh on them for a while. I thought I had heard that their cars were not original, but had been newly made just for the classes! (I could be mistaken about that.)
I saw them in use until at least the mid-1970s, and probably later
Thank you for this! I had not been fully aware of this “demon” before.
I had heard of the “Noon Witch” which wikipedia tells me is the same thing, thanks to the Dvorak tone poem of that name. The wikipedia article (different from your link) tells of the sad tale that inspired the music.
That’s very cool!
In a thread in Cafe Society on “TV Shows Only You Remember,” someone mentioned Remember WENN, a series about a radio station in the 1930s and 1940s, and which was one of AMC’s first forays into creating its own programming. In doing some reading about the show, I learned that it was created and written by a guy named Rupert Holmes, who is probably best-known for writing and singing “Escape (The Pina Colada Song).”
A man found over 150 bowling balls under his porch when doing renovations
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/14/us/bowling-balls-found-under-home-trnd/index.html
Wait until he finds out the hard way that the bowling balls were making up the majority of the foundation.
This would make one heckuvan episode of those shows my wife watches on HGTV.
Now he needs one of these:
