We had the redwoods in the first part of this thread:
“The Office” brilliantly made use of this in the final episode in the series, when it came out that Dunder Mifflin’s Creed really was the rock band dude “in real life”, a fugitive from the law laying low as an office worker and secretly living at the office.
Norway has a clone of Kitkat bars called Kvikk Lunsj. I started reading the description article and thinking “Isn’t that basically a Kitkat”, and wondering if the article would addtess that it is basically a Kitkat. It did. And Kitkat is only now beginning to be sold in Norway (in a different shape) and Kvikl Lunsj isn’t sold in the rest of the world.
Note that Kvikk Lunsj is the Norwegian translation of “quick lunch”.
I first heard about Kvikk Lunsj in an NPR story on dynamic pricing in supermarkets. We bought a few when we were in Oslo last year and they were indeed very, very similar to Kit Kats.
https://www.npr.org/2024/03/06/1197958433/dynamic-pricing-grocery-supermarkets
A cubic foot of air at sea level weighs a little over an ounce (varying with temperature). While I know that air molecules have mass and therefore weight, I was a little surprised that it was that heavy.
Put into International Units, as Godott intended: a cubic meter (m³) of dry air at a temperature of 15 °C (59 °F for the heathens) and a pressure of 101.330 kPa (International Standard Atmosphere) will have a mass of 1.2250 kg (2.7 pounds).
Og bless you Pardel-Lux
Sometimes a man’s gotta do what really feels good. Aaaahhhh… 
Take a marker and draw a 1 inch X 1 inch square on top of your left shoulder.
Right now, there is a rectangular column of air that “sits” on top of it. The dimensions of this column of air are 1 inch X 1 inch X hundreds of miles. The total weight of this column of air is around 14.7 pounds.
This is true, of course, for any 1 inch X 1 inch square on the surface of your body. And anything else, for that matter.
Fluid dynamics does not work with columns “sitting” on top of things. Draw the same square inch (aargh! - two SI unit kittens died!) around your tummy button and the column will point horizontally (assuming an upright stance and a flat belly) and still the pressure will be the same.
See also Pascal’s barrel.
On September 12, 2015 a high school football game in Pennsylvania ended up with a score of 107-90. One running back had 722 yards on 30 carries. (Article says the record is 754 set back in 1950. A quarterback finished with 741 passing yards. (Article says record is 764 from 2000.)
There is a bar in Studio City called Residuals Tavern where actors can bring in any residual check made out for less than a dollar and redeem it for a free drink.
TIL of The Readjuster Party, a pos-Civil War movement that sought to align working class whites and freed Blacks to overthrow the power of the planter class.
Birth of a Nation spread the bigoted myth of the jumped-up freedmen passing the bottle around the statehouse chamber, while corrupt white carpetbaggers from the North oppressed the vanquished Southerners. The first was dispelled by the biographies of dignified, educated Blacks who tried to enact Democracy until they were abandoned by the GOP in the election of 1876. But less understood was the former Confederates who were willing to put racism aside and focus on classism.
For whatever it’s worth, the bigoted myth didn’t originate with Birth of a Nation. Harper’s Weekly, a pro-Union and pro-Republican magazine based in New York City, contemporarily published a satirical cartoon mocking the unprofessionalism of African-American legislators in South Carolina’s Reconstruction-era legislature.
Today I learned that during Richard Nixon’s trip to the Soviet Union while Vice President, in 1959, secret service agents detected high levels of radiation. Knowing that the rooms were bugged, they responded by complaining loudly. A few hours later, the radiation levels returned to normal.
The Moscow Signals Declassified: Irradiating Richard Nixon | National Security Archive.
Today I learned that the word “skeletal,” pronounced SKEH-lə-təl in the U.S., is pronounced skə-LEE-təl in some parts of the English speaking world.
You mean I drew a square on my shoulder with a marker for nothing?
Good thing I didn’t draw it around my belly button.
Today I finally remembered to look this up. In “Athena” by The Who, they’re saying, “She’s a bomb.” I could never understand Roger because he leaves out all the consonants in his pronunciation.
I always thought he was saying, “she’s a whore.” Oops.