Things You Learned Today

[tamthebam]

7 hours ago, Thane of Cawdor said:

Seemingly, we've been playing fute-ball for 700 years. You'd think we might have got quite good by now.

The world’s oldest football was discovered during an excavation project at Stirling Castle in the 1970s; it had been lodged in the rafters of the Queen’s Chamber in Stirling Castle during the reconstruction works commissioned by James V, which dates the hoofing of it to the 1540s. The ball, made from cowhide and a pig’s bladder, is prominently displayed at the Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/apr/09/where-tourists-seldom-tread-part-9-crewe-boston-barnstaple-stirling

 

You're offside, your Majesty. 

Not according to James V-AR one is not, peasant

Ok, Sire, I concede

[Hedgecutter]

Tannadice's 'Fair Play Stand' in its current form wasn't actually funded by UEFA for fan behaviour.  They just funded a far cheaper proto-stand, which Utd subsequently rebuilt and couldn't be arsed renaming.

I always thought it seemed a little generous.

Now/then:

[RH33]

On 22/01/2024 at 19:14, Mark Connolly said:

The video for Cher's "If I Could Turn Back Time" wasn't just filmed on any old warship, but on the USS Missouri, the site of the Japanese surrender at the end of WW2.

As a result, numerous veterans and US Navy higher-ups lost their shit at the fact Cher performed on the ship with her arse hanging out. The crew on the ship didn't seem to mind though.

 

Original mankini.

[Venti]

You get 729 layers in puff pastry. 6 turns.

Just buy it IMO.

[DiegoDiego]

One quarter of transplant-quality, donated kidneys in the USA are thrown in the bin.

17% of donor organs in the USA are first offered to patients who are already deceased.

The contractor used to deliver organs in the USA is fifteen times more likely to lose or damage one in transit than an airline is to do the same to a suitcase.

[BFTD]

11 hours ago, DiegoDiego said:

One quarter of transplant-quality, donated kidneys in the USA are thrown in the bin.

17% of donor organs in the USA are first offered to patients who are already deceased.

The contractor used to deliver organs in the USA is fifteen times more likely to lose or damage one in transit than an airline is to do the same to a suitcase.

Reads like somebody involved has contacts in the dog food business.

[hk blues]

18 hours ago, DiegoDiego said:

One quarter of transplant-quality, donated kidneys in the USA are thrown in the bin.

17% of donor organs in the USA are first offered to patients who are already deceased.

The contractor used to deliver organs in the USA is fifteen times more likely to lose or damage one in transit than an airline is to do the same to a suitcase.

Why don't they just stick them in suitcases and on a flight, then?

[DiegoDiego]

When you hear about an army salting the earth, they weren't putting salt in it to stop food from growing, as that would require a ridiculous amount in a time where salt was expensive, but salt was put in the ground in conjunction with the seeds of aggressive weeds which would overpower anything else planted. The salt was there to actually help things grow.

Edited April 13 by DiegoDiego

[Fullerene]

31 minutes ago, DiegoDiego said:

When you hear about an army salting the earth, they weren't putting salt in it to stop food from growing, as that would require a ridiculous amount in a time where salt was expensive, but salt was put in the ground in conjunction with the seeds of aggressive weeds which would overpower anything else planted. The salt was there to actually help things grow.

I recall that when the Dutch reclaimed land from the sea to turn into farmland, they had to flood it with freshwater and drain it again about seventeen times just to remove enough of the salt from the soil.

[Hedgecutter]

37 minutes ago, Fullerene said:

I recall that when the Dutch reclaimed land from the sea to turn into farmland, they had to flood it with freshwater and drain it again about seventeen times just to remove enough of the salt from the soil.

Everybody involved with the 17th sweep: "Dit betere verdomde werk"

 

"This better f***ing work"

[DiegoDiego]

Ernest Hemmingway bought the gun he used to kill himself from Abercrombie & Fitch.

[Sergeant Wilson]

4 hours ago, DiegoDiego said:

Ernest Hemmingway bought the gun he used to kill himself from Abercrombie & Fitch.

I went to his house, but he wasn't in. I suppose that explains why.

[Newbornbairn]

28 minutes ago, Sergeant Wilson said:

I went to his house, but he wasn't in. I suppose that explains why.

I went to his house too. Full of 6 toed Fifer cats. 

[scottsdad]

Madlyn Rhue was Ricardo Montalban's love interest in the Star Trek episode Space Seed.

They also played a married couple in Bonanza

[Melanius Mullarkey]

The 3100km long Yukon River, only has 4 vehicle bridges.

[Tony Ferrino]

5 hours ago, Melanius Mullarkey said:

The 3100km long Yukon River, only has 4 vehicle bridges.

 

[Cosmic Joe]

The Netherlands were one of the last countries to abolish slavery.

Apologies, I'm a few hours late posting this.

[Fullerene]

11 hours ago, Melanius Mullarkey said:

The 3100km long Yukon River, only has 4 vehicle bridges.

Only one bridge joins Eastern Canada with Western Canada.

The Nipigon River Bridge.

[DiegoDiego]

20 hours ago, Melanius Mullarkey said:

The 3100km long Yukon River, only has 4 vehicle bridges.

There are only two over the 4,444km long Amur.

[Fullerene]

2 hours ago, DiegoDiego said:

There are only two over the 4,444km long Amur.

"Re-calculating.  Continue along this road for 3,274 kilometres then across the bridge.  Your destination is on the left."