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Post up facts and things that hardly anyone knows...... (for entertainment purposes only. NO need to fact check)

If your Television went off air every-night with the Star Spangled Banner, you grew up in a great era.
 
Photon440 said:
Stanley Kubrick made up the fictitious device 'C.R.M. 114 DISCRIMINATOR' for the movie Dr. Strangelove in the B-52 weapons station.
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He also used the CRM114 in other movies: on an escape pod in 2001 - A Space Odyssey, a drug given to Alex in A Clockwork Orange (Serum 114), and in Eyes Wide Shut, as a mortuary location.

Also, when Marty McFly was blown backwards from the giant speaker in Back To The Future, it was powered by a CRM-114 Amplifier.

CRM-114 was printed on the side of the Lunar Max Prison in Men In Black III.

In 'Fun With Dick And Jane', they sent McAllister a CRM-114 deposit form.
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And "A113" .......

A113 (sometimes A-113 or A1-13) is an inside joke that originated with alumni of the California Institute of the Arts, such as John Lasseter, Tim Burton, and Brad Bird. The classroom where these students learned graphic design was identified as Room A113.

A113 first appeared in media when Bird used it for a license plate number in the “Family Dog” episode of Amazing Stories. Since then, it has shown up in many different movies, television shows, and other media, including every Pixar film.

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I heard that Stan Lee had a cousin named Ugg.
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For nearly 70 years, just about every car had a points-based ignition system. This design was invented by Charles F. Kettering, and first appeared on the 1910 Cadillac. Kettering was a co-founder of Delco and held 186 patents...
 
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Deep in a New Zealand swamp, scientists discovered an ancient kauri tree that had been entombed for more than 40,000 years—its trunk preserved like a wooden time capsule. But this wasn’t just any prehistoric tree. Its rings revealed something extraordinary: it had lived through the Laschamp Excursion, a rare moment when Earth’s magnetic poles reversed. More alarming, however, was the period just before the flip—known as the Adams Event—when the planet’s magnetic field all but vanished, exposing the Earth to an onslaught of cosmic radiation.

With Earth’s magnetic shield weakened to as little as 0–6% of its normal strength, solar and cosmic radiation surged in, triggering global climate chaos. Ice sheets expanded dramatically, storm systems rerouted, and once-verdant lands like parts of Australia were swallowed by desert. Some researchers believe the event contributed to the extinction of the Neanderthals and forced early humans into caves for protection—where they began creating the earliest known symbolic art. These dramatic shifts suggest the Adams Event wasn’t just a magnetic anomaly—it was a turning point in human history.

Now, the ancient kauri stands as both relic and warning. Its rings carry the silent testimony of a world on the edge, a reminder that our magnetic field is not permanent. If such a collapse were to happen today, the consequences could be dire—satellite failure, communication breakdowns, grid collapses, and rapid shifts in climate. This tree, long dead, still speaks—whispering across the ages about the fragility of the invisible forces that shield our modern world.
 
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Deep in a New Zealand swamp, scientists discovered an ancient kauri tree that had been entombed for more than 40,000 years—its trunk preserved like a wooden time capsule. But this wasn’t just any prehistoric tree. Its rings revealed something extraordinary: it had lived through the Laschamp Excursion, a rare moment when Earth’s magnetic poles reversed. More alarming, however, was the period just before the flip—known as the Adams Event—when the planet’s magnetic field all but vanished, exposing the Earth to an onslaught of cosmic radiation.

With Earth’s magnetic shield weakened to as little as 0–6% of its normal strength, solar and cosmic radiation surged in, triggering global climate chaos. Ice sheets expanded dramatically, storm systems rerouted, and once-verdant lands like parts of Australia were swallowed by desert. Some researchers believe the event contributed to the extinction of the Neanderthals and forced early humans into caves for protection—where they began creating the earliest known symbolic art. These dramatic shifts suggest the Adams Event wasn’t just a magnetic anomaly—it was a turning point in human history.

Now, the ancient kauri stands as both relic and warning. Its rings carry the silent testimony of a world on the edge, a reminder that our magnetic field is not permanent. If such a collapse were to happen today, the consequences could be dire—satellite failure, communication breakdowns, grid collapses, and rapid shifts in climate. This tree, long dead, still speaks—whispering across the ages about the fragility of the invisible forces that shield our modern world.
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Does it make good firewood?
 
Photon440 said:
Does it make good firewood?
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The Kauri tree and those living are protected here. That particular tree will likely end up in a museum...... or as a canoe for the 13%'ers who'll claim they own it because their grandparents planted it as a seedling. :rolleyes:

The only Kauri wood you can use here now is reclaimed planks and boards recovered from older buildings that have been renovated of demolished. Cutting a Kauri tree nowadays will get you a spell in the Klink. I have worked in houses with Kauri and other natives like Rimu....and they are hard as the hobs of hell to drill through.
 
kiwigtx said:
The Kauri tree and those living are protected here. That particular tree will likely end up in a museum...... or as a canoe for the 13%'ers who'll claim they own it because their grandparents planted it as a seedling. :rolleyes:

The only Kauri wood you can use here now is reclaimed planks and boards recovered from older buildings that have been renovated of demolished. Cutting a Kauri tree nowadays will get you a spell in the Klink. I have worked in houses with Kauri and other natives like Rimu....and they are hard as the hobs of hell to drill through.
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Kauri pronounced as "Cow-ree" and Rimu as "Ree-moo" :lol: ...p.s... I'm not a Mour-ree.
 
Over 5,000 bodies have been recovered at the base of Niagara Falls since 1850, with most being victims of accidents, suicides, or failed stunts. While many have gone over the falls, only a small number have survived the plunge, with only 16 recorded survivors, all from Horseshoe Falls. Annie Edson Taylor was an American schoolteacher who, on her 63rd birthday, October 24, 1901, became the first person to survive a trip over Niagara Falls in a barrel. Her motives were financial, but she never made much money from her adventure. She died penniless and her funeral was paid for by public donations. Following the death of one daredevil in 1951, stunting at Niagara Falls has been illegal…

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a bottle of water at the store is $1.50... $2.00 at the Gym...$4.00 at the airport & $5-$7 at a water park.....
 
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a bottle of water at the store is $1.50... $2.00 at the Gym...$4.00 at the airport & $5-$7 at a water park.....
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AND four bucks for a 24 pack of 1 liter water bottles at the grocery store.
 
I heard this story from another geologist about tv station going off the air. As a kid he lived in a small western Kansas town. Programing would go off and a camera would atomatically pan weather instruments back and forth all night. They got the bright idea to do a crazy prank. They cut some pictures out of their brother's Playboy, went to the broadcast tower outside of town. The drilled the door lock open, ready to tape these pictures over the instruments. They found out the gauge faces were tiny. So they went back home, cut out smaller pictures and got the job done. Everyone was talking about it the next day. The most entertaining part was hard this geologist was laughing while he told this story,
 
The most incredible Jaguar to be featured in a Bond movie though is the Jaguar C-X75 Concept. Another 7 of these beautiful vehicles were built specifically Spectre, but the C-X75 never got to see production, from it’s unveiling in 2010 to the film usage in 2015. No gadgets were needed for the C-X75, as it was used exclusively for one chase seen, between Mr. Hinx and James Bond, on the streets of Rome: the power of the with 778 horsepower through four YASA electric motors meant the C-X75 had more than enough to catch anyone. Sadly, after having caught Bond, Bond ended up setting fire to the C-X75 in the film, quickly ending its legacy in the films.

James Bond Jaguar C-X75


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Lucille Ball Helped Get “Star Trek” on TV​

As the first female head of a major Hollywood studio — Desilu Productions, which Lucille Ball formed with then-husband Desi Arnaz but took over by herself after their divorce in 1960 — Ball helped produce some of the most influential television shows of all time. She was particularly instrumental in getting Star Trek on the air. There was apparently some trepidation by Desilu board members when it came to the budget of the ambitious series, leaving Ball to personally finance not one but two pilots of the science fiction mainstay. One studio accountant, Edwin “Ed” Holly, even claimed: “If it were not for Lucy, there would be no Star Trek today.”
 

Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds” Was Partly Based on a True Story​

With apologies to anyone who already found The Birds terrifying while under the impression that it was wholly fictional: Alfred Hitchcock’s avian thriller was partly based on a true story. Said event took place on California’s Monterey Bay in August 1961, when “thousands of crazed seabirds” called sooty shearwaters were seen regurgitating anchovies and flying into objects before dying on the streets. The Master of Suspense happened to live in the area, and called the Santa Cruz Sentinel — which had reported on the strange goings-on in its August 18 edition — for more information. Long after his movie was released two years later, the bizarre event remained shrouded in mystery: What would inspire birds to act this way, and were they as malicious as they seemed in Hitchcock’s movie?

The truth ended up being both straightforward and a little sad. The scientific consensus is now that the birds were poisoned by toxic algae found in a type of plankton called Pseudo-nitzschia. The birds weren’t attacking anyone; they were disoriented and barely in control of their actions. That explanation is absent from Hitchcock’s thriller, which also drew inspiration from Daphne du Maurier’s short story of the same name. (Hitchcock’s Rebecca was a du Maurier adaptation, too.) A resounding success, The Birds is widely considered one of Hitchcock’s greatest works, alongside Psycho, Vertigo, Rear Window, and North by Northwest.
 
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