TIL that food-service workers, especially those in manufacturing or processing plants, are supposed to use special blue bandages imbedded with tiny metal strips, rather than clear or flesh-colored bandages as most people use. Blue to be seen if the bandage falls off into food, as most food isn’t blue, metal to be detected by metal detectors already used to check packaged food for stray metal bits.
Testing an electronic dictionary with a link to Wikipedia the word “Ruso” (“Russian” in Spanish) it also pointed to a city in North Carolina called Ruso with only a population of 4, got curious and looked for the least populated cities in the US and this article pointed at Ruso, but also to one amazing coincidence:
Up to 2017 there where 2 cities called Bonanza, one in Utah and the other in Colorado. Both have just one official inhabitant.
I guess the mines ran out.
Before Barrry Hansen became Dr. Demento, he was the sound man for the Ash Grove folk music club in LA. He was part of Randy California’s extended family, lived with and was briefly a roadie for the band Spirit in the “big yellow house” in Laurel Canyon.
OMG! That is the FATTEST magician I have seen in my life!
The most populated city in California that does not have a Spanish name is Long Beach.
I had no idea that Fresno is a Spanish name, so learned 2 things from your post. Thanks!
Today via YouTube I learned about
South Korea doesn’t have any highways numbered between 70 and 99. Those numbers are reserved for highways in the North if re-unification ever happens.
Incredible, but true: in 2007 the Royal Canadian Mint produced the world’s first million dollar coin. The 100 kg, 99999 pure gold bullion coin with a $1 million face value was originally conceived as a unique showpiece to promote the Mint’s new line of 99999 pure 1 oz Gold Maple Leaf bullion coins. After several interested buyers came forward, the Mint decided to make a very limited quantity available for sale. To date, five of these majestic gold bullion coins, weighing 3,215 troy ounces each, have been purchased by investors from Canada and abroad.
And it’s worth more now…
In 2010, the Austrian investment firm AvW Invest declared bankruptcy and its assets, including one of the five million-dollar coins, were liquidated. At a Dorotheum auction on June 25 of the same year, the piece was purchased for US$4.02 million by the Spanish gold trading company Oro Direct.
One of those coins was stolen in Berlin several years ago.
Same here only reversed: As a 50’s kid, I loved “Circus Boy.” The first time I saw The Monkees, I was surprised to see an older dark-haired Corky.
Bonus Points if you can name Corky’s “pet” elephant!
A good bar bet to make. Ask which commercial airliner broke the sound barrier in controlled flight and in what year. give them + or minus 5 years.
The first commercial airliner to break the sound barrier in controlled flight was a DC-8.
the date was August 21, 1961. yes, 1961.
For bonus points, name the pilot in the F-104 chase plane seen in the picture in this article. It’s not hard to remember. It was the first person to break the sound barrier. Chuck Yeager.
Peter Twiss OBE, DSC & Bar (23 July 1921 – 31 August 2011) was a British test pilot who holds the World Air Speed Record as the first man to fly a jet aircraft faster than 1,000 mph (1,600 km/h; 870 kn).
This came up in a quiz I watched last night.
If you are on linkedin follow Fermats Library, they put out regular posts on mathematical and scientific trivia.
I cant figure out how to cross post a link here without posting my profile.
In the “Obvious after being told” category. In John Lennon’s In My Life, when he’s talking about his friends and “some are dead and some are living”, the dead friend referred to is Stu Sutcliffe.
Oh, I’d always assumed it referred to Brian Epstein.
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(who, by the way, is referred to in heaven as The Third Beatle)
I know, from first-hand experience, that Japanese often put Tabasco sauce onto pizza. Not before baking it, rather, while it’s still in the box waiting to be eaten after delivery. I was amazed.
I told this to my brother, who attended biz school at Tulane (in NOLA) and he said he too had heard the tale, that Tabasco had been marketed in Japan as…Pizza sauce.
This is so outside our (USA) experience of using Tabasco sauce to be nearly incredible. Imagine putting marshmallow fluff onto a steak. Or chocolate sauce onto a caesar salad.
The trouble is, I can’t find a web citation to corroborate. Has anyone else heard of this?
When “In My Life” was released in 1965, Brian Epstein was still alive. He died in 1967.
Thus fulfilling prophecy.