To me, Brazilian Portuguese and Italian are the most melodious languages. Not a fan of Portuguese Portuguese.
Up until 1840, it was widely accepted that the wall we now call “Hadrian’s Wall” was actually “Severus’s Wall”.
Then a clergyman named John Hodgson who’s ambition was to write the definitive and complete history of Northumberland figured out that no, actually it was built by Hadrian. What to do with this information? It was important, he couldn’t ignore it, he couldn’t conceal it, but! he was writing a history of Northumberland, not the Wall. This was Out of Scope.
What he did was include the evidence in what is probably the longest footnote in history: 173 pages of his 400-page, Volume II Part 3 of the history of Northumberland. In a really teeny font. And he fundamentally destroyed a 1500-year-long belief about British history.
(information learned from a thread on Twitter by John Bull)
Exactly this.
j
At sea level and at 15 °C air has a density of approximately 1.225 kg/m3. So 1 m3 of air weighs 1.225 kg. Now air is 78% N2, 21% O2 and under 1% Ar, other gases are just present in trace amounts and are not relevant here, and that includes 400 ppm for CO2. 400 ppm by weight of 1.225 kg are 0.49 g. You don’t get CO2 from the air, except as a bonus while searching for something else. Usually N2, O2 or Ar.
Nitpick: There is almost no hydrogen at all in the atmosphere, that is not where you obtain H2. According to the Wikipedia article on the Atmosphere of Earth H2 has a concentration of 0.000055%. Would any H2 be present in the atmosphere its buoyancy would be so strong that it would escape Earth in a matter of minutes.
And yes, lack of CO2 is currently a problem, as it is needed for making beer. Among the biggest producers of CO2 are fertiliser plants, and those are closing because energy is too expensive. (That is a very short version of a complex problem, but roughly correct).
Yes, not sure why I mentioned hydrogen. The chart on this page under Cryogenic Distillation Process shows hydrogen is a minute portion of gases separated from air.
Seriously? You are joking, right?
I would never joke on a matter as serious as beer! Cite, first one I found searching “lack of CO2 and beer”.
You’re in the land of Reinheitsgebot, right?
You’ll be just fine.
j
I like Belgian beer too, and that is not ruled by German purity laws. Now I have a dilemma with Leffe blonde: they are supplying Russia with the good stuff! Should I boycott or should I hope they make the Russians so drunk they cannot shoot straight?
But in Germany, yes, we are safe. The CO2 should come from the fermentation. I hope it does!
Stick to Corsendonk or Kwak. You know it makes sense.
j
Kwak has the nicest glasses!
I read the glasses were like this because it was the prefered beer of horse cart drivers, so they did not spill. That was before DUI was a thing! 
Would not say no to a Corsendonk either, but have never found one in Berlin.
It is associated by legend with stagecoach drivers, though was mainly used for drinking feats and special toasts. - per Wiki
Legends must not be true to figure in a thread about interesting random facts, but people, many people, still say it’s true.
(Ah, stagecoach was the word I was looking for in my mind…)
A new Greek-themed restaurant in London’s Mayfair district has advertised for a grape feeder. Yes, as in someone on staff feeding grapes to patrons. Whether or not this is an actual position is currently unknown.
I’d think the first priority would be the hands’ health rather than their looks.
Does she have to be named “Beulah”?
I get that! Good one.
This is completely trivial, but it made me laugh. On Saturday we went to Shoreham, on the South coast, pretty much due south of London. It was market day, and whilst we were browsing the market, a large protest march wound past us - a group whose mission is described thus:
…a grass-roots community group determined to stop Hyde Home & Adur Council’s unjustified & unnecessary plan to fell the last Poplar tree on Brighton Rd, next to the Duke of Wellington pub.
Admirable. But the best bit is the name of the organisation:
If that gag doesn’t work in your territory, I can only apologize. It’s a play on “Popular Front” - a common name for political coalitions.
j
So kegstands (“Chug! Chug!”) have always been with us, I guess. Humanity never changes.
It does go back a ways:
So the millennials didn’t invent drinking. It was the boomers.
(What? Thor was the god of thunder.)