In the same vein for different speeds, I have the 1968 album by Moby Grape, called 'WOW'. Track A5, entitled "Just Like Gene Autry; A Foxtrot" is meant to be played at 78 rpm. while the rest of the album is the standard 33.
Post up facts and things that hardly anyone knows...... (for entertainment purposes only. NO need to fact check)
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The “M*A*S*H” Finale Was Watched by More People Than Any Other Series Finale
After 11 years on the small screen, M*A*S*H aired its series finale on February 28, 1983 — and made history in the process. More than 106 million people tuned in to watch “Goodbye, Farewell and Amen,” making it the most-viewed series finale ever. Until Super Bowl XLIV in 2010, which saw the post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans Saints defeat the Indianapolis Colts, it was the most-watched television broadcast in U.S. history. No episode of a scripted series has come close in the decades since. The series finale of Cheers earned 80.4 million viewers, Seinfeld got 76.3 million, and Game of Thrones — the most-talked-about show on television for years — had 19.3 million.
I know what I know, if I knew what I don't know, I'd know what I knew and what I don't know, so I wouldn't know if I didn't know what I don't know.You don't know what you don't know.
I knew that.
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In my garage I have this 1965 Rockola jukebox. It will play 45rpm records but also 33 1/3 rpm too. The speed changes mechanically depending on the size of the record center hole. Big one plays at 45, the small hole pushes release fingers down that reduces the speed to 33 1/3rpm. Pretty cool. I had the tube amplifier rebuilt, replaced the needle and it sounded great. Unfortunately the selector circuit failed so it needs to be repaired again.
The old airships had luxury undreamed of in today's aircraft. This is the passenger deck of the LZ130 Graf Zeppelin, which was built after the Hindenburg caught fire. These were more akin to seagoing ocean liners in levels of comfort.
The Graf Zeppelin also had a water recovery system built into the engine exhaust, extracting a pound of water for every pound of fuel burned. This allowed the airship to maintain balance without the need to vent hydrogen during the flight as compensation for a lightened fuel load (over half a ton of fuel burned per hour), and so didn't need topping up after each flight.
The Graf Zeppelin also had a water recovery system built into the engine exhaust, extracting a pound of water for every pound of fuel burned. This allowed the airship to maintain balance without the need to vent hydrogen during the flight as compensation for a lightened fuel load (over half a ton of fuel burned per hour), and so didn't need topping up after each flight.
Do you know what you didn't know before you didn't know that you knew that there was stuff you didn't know?
Lincoln Logs were invented by Frank Lloyd Wright’s son. |
| John Lloyd Wright, son of famed American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, based Lincoln Logs on a real project that he worked on alongside his father. John began as his father’s apprentice in 1913, and while the professional relationship was short-lived, John briefly played a role in planning Tokyo’s Imperial Hotel. The hotel plan featured an innovative design of interlocking timber beams to increase stability, which actually helped the structure survive the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake. Though John quit before the project was complete, he drew great inspiration from its design, and in 1920 he patented an interlocking log cabin toy. He chose the name “Lincoln Logs” to evoke a sense of Americana, basing it on the 16th president’s childhood log cabin. |
Only six of 45 U.S. presidents have been born in hospitals. The first president to born in a hospital was Jimmy Carter. On October 1, 1924, born at the Wise Sanitarium in Plains, Georgia, where his mother, Lillian Carter, worked as a nurse at the time. The institution was later renamed the Lillian G. Carter Nursing Center in her honor. Jimmy Carter’s upbringing was far from modern, however. When he left the hospital as a baby, he went home to the family farm, which lacked plumbing and electricity...
Only five other U.S. presidents have been born in hospitals: Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and Sleepy Joe. Carter’s successor, Ronald Reagan, was born in his parents’ apartment in Tampico, Illinois. George H.W. Bush, who succeeded Reagan, was born at the family home in Milton, Massachusetts, and remains the last U.S. president not born in a hospital...
Only five other U.S. presidents have been born in hospitals: Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and Sleepy Joe. Carter’s successor, Ronald Reagan, was born in his parents’ apartment in Tampico, Illinois. George H.W. Bush, who succeeded Reagan, was born at the family home in Milton, Massachusetts, and remains the last U.S. president not born in a hospital...
This came as a bit of a surprise to me, as I remember my grandpa watching this TV show religiously...
The lyrics to the main theme song for the M*A*S*H TV series, "Suicide Is Painless," was written by Michael Altman.
Michael Altman was just 14 years old when he wrote those lyrics.
The lyrics to the main theme song for the M*A*S*H TV series, "Suicide Is Painless," was written by Michael Altman.
Michael Altman was just 14 years old when he wrote those lyrics.
Equally interesting, his father Robert Altman got $70,000 for directing the M*A*S*H movie while Michael received over $1,000,000 for the songwriting lyrics as the song was released as a hit single.
While motorcycles are a fun past-time for many, in India they are a way of life. Last year Honda sold nearly six million motorcycles in India...and they weren't even the top seller. Indian bike maker HERO outsold them by a small margin. Even Royal Enfield sold over a million bikes there, over six times Harley Davidson's total output for last year.
There is gold dissolved in seawater. A cubic mile of ocean contains approximately 25 tons of gold. In all the oceans there are 200 million tons, worth 700 Trillion dollars.
I remember being told many many years ago that there was a finite amount of Gold in the planet - only enough to fill 3 x Olympic sized swimming pools.
I'm not sure how many tons that is.....or how many washing machines for that matter.
Harris D814 Punch-down tools do not bounce well on concrete floors. 
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At one time (or actually several times, I guess) Chris Farley, John Belushi, and John Candy were planning to star in a bio-pic of Fatty Arbuckle.
All three died before it could be made.
All gone too soon, too young. Just like Roscoe (he didn't t like his nickname, said it was his character. He was Roscoe. [I have a name, you know?])
Roscoe finally overcame the scandal, and signed a contract to make feature films again........ died of a heart attack the same night the contract was signed.
All three died before it could be made.
All gone too soon, too young. Just like Roscoe (he didn't t like his nickname, said it was his character. He was Roscoe. [I have a name, you know?])
Roscoe finally overcame the scandal, and signed a contract to make feature films again........ died of a heart attack the same night the contract was signed.
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Arbuckle had three trials for manslaughter ( of a promiscuous drug addicted extra, who may have died due to a botched abortion days before the drunken party in question.) She died of a ruptured bladder, and peritonitis.
1st trial, Roscoe testifies, 40 hours deliberation, hung jury 10-2 for not guilty
One of the two guilty was related to the politically ambitious prosecutor.
2nd trial, more obvious he didn't do it, so Roscoe doesn't testify. 40 hours deliberation, hung jury, 10-2 for conviction, cause he didn't testify
3rd trial, jury out SIX MINUTES, not guilty, jury issues a statement APOLOGIZING for his mistreatment by the legal system, declared him INNOCENT, not just NG,
Life still ruined, banned from pictures, hugely in debt to his lawyers, with no way of making money. Sold house and cars to pay legal bills.
1st trial, Roscoe testifies, 40 hours deliberation, hung jury 10-2 for not guilty
One of the two guilty was related to the politically ambitious prosecutor.
2nd trial, more obvious he didn't do it, so Roscoe doesn't testify. 40 hours deliberation, hung jury, 10-2 for conviction, cause he didn't testify
3rd trial, jury out SIX MINUTES, not guilty, jury issues a statement APOLOGIZING for his mistreatment by the legal system, declared him INNOCENT, not just NG,
Life still ruined, banned from pictures, hugely in debt to his lawyers, with no way of making money. Sold house and cars to pay legal bills.
Amabel Ethelreid Normand is credited as being the first film star to receive a pie thrown in the face.
