[M_Six]

Originally Posted by Lady Jane

You could buy a bag of potatoes from a vending machine in Chelsea, UK for 6 pence in 1962.

Back in the 80's, Germany had beer vending machines where you could buy a whole case of bottled beer. It came down the roller ramp in a reusable (and returnable) plastic crate, like the ones folks use to store LPs.

[Lady Jane]

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart...-he-180962434/

[Lady Jane]

A Himalayan Calendar. The outer ring as 12 balls, each corresponding to a month. The next two rings have a tens and ones digit. The tens has three balls for up to the 31st, and the next has nine balls, for 0 to 9. And then four rings for the year, up to 9999.

[floridaorange]

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Currently in London, a photo I took in Nov (speaking of potatoes in the UK)

[M_Six]

Originally Posted by floridaorange

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Currently in London, a photo I took in Nov (speaking of potatoes in the UK)

Don't they call them Jacket Potatoes?

[floridaorange]

Originally Posted by M_Six

Don't they call them Jacket Potatoes?

I really don't know, but recently learned the word "WC" is their term for public restrooms, standing for "Water Closet."

[vreihen16]

Originally Posted by M_Six

Don't they call them Jacket Potatoes?

Personally, I would call them highway robbery for selling a baked potato with chili and cheese for over $13.50 USD.....

[mc-m3]

Before France abolished capital punishment in 1981, executions were still carried out by guillotine, as they had been since the French Revolution.

[Lady Jane]

Originally Posted by mc-m3

Before France abolished capital punishment in 1981, executions were still carried out by guillotine, as they had been since the French Revolution.

The last beheading took place in 1977 just a few years before the abolishment of the death penalty in France. Historical trivia here:


https://www.history.com/news/8-thing...the-guillotine

[3.0L]

Originally Posted by M_Six

Back in the 80's, Germany had beer vending machines where you could buy a whole case of bottled beer. It came down the roller ramp in a reusable (and returnable) plastic crate, like the ones folks use to store LPs.

I was based in Germany from early ‘68 to early ‘69. One day when we were
convoying to an alert area we came across an overturned beer truck. Suds everywhere. It was enough to bring tears to our eyes, but it did smell good.

[3.0L]

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[mc-m3]

During the peak of a total solar eclipse, a rainbow within its path turns red as shorter wavelengths of light, like blue and green, are more easily scattered at totality.

[vreihen16]

Originally Posted by 3.0L

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Ironic that they used Pi to prove which pie is bigger.....

[Artemis]

Venom of fire ants can save an unlucky skydiver's life.

In 1999, skydiver Joan Murray's parachute malfunctioned, causing her to fall 14,500 feet. Her backup parachute opened at 700 feet, but it quickly deflated and she continued to plummet towards the ground at 80mph. Miraculously, Murray survived the ordeal thanks to the fact that she landed directly onto a mound of fire ants. The only possible solution that the doctors have found is that the intense shock of being stung over 200 times by the fire ants released a surge of adrenaline which kept her heart beating.



https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/249203...achute-failed/

[Lady Jane]

[mc-m3]

Rats are prodigious breeders, with one pair having the potential to produce 15,000 descendants in a year.