Hungary issued a 1020 pengo note in 1946. A 1021 pengo note was designed, but never issued. Scroll down in the link for photos.
James Dyson had 5,126 failures before he came up with his first good vacuum cleaner.
Hyperinflation is pretty interesting stuff.
Here’s a video about Germany’s experience: according to this, the price of your restaurant meal could go up between the time you ordered it and the time it arrived. So you had to negotiate the price in advance
And Zimbabwe? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78-BlZXm7wAWD40=Water Displacement, 40th try.
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That is surprising and cool.
Peter Wessel Zapffe was a Norwegian philosopher who believed that human existence was so inherently tragic that humanity would be better off by going extinct.
He lived to be 90 years old.
Did I already mention that the commandant of the US Army Armor School in Brigadier General Admiral?
Looking for a new house I found out that many people won’t buy a house with a steep driveway. Especially people with kids, they are worried the kids will end up in the street and get hit by a car. That might happen if they are on a bike/trike or even just falling down.
Just learned a trick of the trade for film: If it’s cold enough to see your breath but you don’t want it to show, put an ice cube in your mouth. It apparently works.
Ti West shares this on the commentary track for The Sacrament, where they did it for one of the outdoor scenes.
My uncle used to have a house with a steep driveway. My cousin, my brother, and I used to shoot down it on bikes, roller skates, and skateboards. At the bottom, we’d fly across the road and crash in the neighbor’s yard. Whee!
also people don’t like unusual interior wall colors in a house for sale. That’s easily fixable with new paint for pretty low cost. People don’t want to repaint which is something I don’t mind.
People don’t like the colors you picked. Flat white walls sell houses, they provide a buyer a blank canvas to imagine what they can make the house look like.
George Harrison had the Chiffons/“He’s So Fine.” Vanilla Ice had Queen/“Under Pressure.” Eric Carmen had Rachmaninoff/“Symphony No 2 Mvt 3.” Sort of.
Many years ago, when vinyl was still king, I was delighted to discover the album in a cheap bin. I was even more delighted to hear (for the first time) the full version. The radio edit skipped the piano solo in the middle, which you can pick up at about 2:46.
If you were a kid in the late 1980s and early 1990s, you likely remember the Carmen Sandiego educational game series. I knew about “Where in the World…”, “Where in the USA…”, “Where in Europe…” and “Where in Time…”, but I just learned today that there was also a “Where in North Dakota is Carmen Sandiego?” game. When I saw it on Wikipedia at first I thought it had to be a joke or vandalism, but it seems to be legit. It was developed specifically for North Dakota schools as a sort of pilot program to determine if there was a market for state/region specific versions of the game.
Kentucky and Missouri are the only two states that border each other that you cannot travel by road (and/or bridge) without passing through another state.
Unless you swim across the Mississippi River (or take a ferry, or fly), you have to pass through another state to travel from KY to MO (or vice versa).
How about Michigan to Illinois? They share a border in Lake Michigan, but you can’t get from one to the other by land without passing though Indiana (or Wisconsin )(or Ohio or Minnesota - if you’re taking a longer route).
Are you talking about the Kentucky Bend?
It’s more interesting than that- Stephen Morrison was Commander of the U.S. naval forces in the Gulf of Tonkin during the Gulf of Tonkin Incident of August 1964, which is considered by many to have begun our involvement in the Vietnam War.
I recently saw a documentary about the war (PBS I think) and during the Tonkin segment there are several photos taken during the shooting confrontation showing him in action on a radio/phone. Wearing helmet and combat jacket of some sort, IIRC.
Sort of true, sort of false. According to google maps some of the western side of the river is actually part of Kentucky. You could drive on many roads that include a Missouri/Kentucky border on that side of the river.
But you’re right that if you’re traveling and enter Kentucky from the East (like from New England) you can’t drive straight into Missouri without first crossing another state, probably Illinois, because there is no road passage across the river along the border.