Fascinating Facts and Trivia

If you use the word "girl" these days, you're likely talking about little Suzy or young Sally.

But way back in the 1300s, you might have been referring to little Bobby or young Billy as well.

The word "gyrle" (which is where we get "girl") was used for any child or young person.

When actors get into character, they change more than just their costumes and how they talk.

During a study by Canada's McMaster University, researchers scanned performers' brains while the actors answered questions either as themselves or in character.

The results revealed that the brain activity of participants differed depending on the separate scenarios.

In March 2019, archaeologists in central China's Henan Province reportedly found a 2,000-year-old bronze pot from a Western Han Dynasty that contains 3.5 liters of a liquid that was referred to in ancient Taoist literature as an "elixir of immortality."

The elixir was found to be a mixture of potassium nitrate and alunite.

However, we have to assume it was less than effective—considering the fact that it was discovered in a tomb.

Like a lot of us I grew up buying music recorded on vinyl and for anyone that doesn't know primarily records come in two sizes: A 7 inch single revolving at 45 revs per minute with a track each side usually about 3 minutes long and a 12 inch LP. LP stands for longplayer but it's sometimes called an album. You can pack perhaps 20 minutes of music on each side and it revolves at 33 1/3 revs per minute.

WHY? I mean why is there a short one and a long one essentially?

Given what artists and record companies have done in the last 70 years you could conclude that it's so the struggling new group can alarm parents with a one minute twenty track about gettin' yer 'ead kicked in on a Saturday night on the one hand and so that a bunch of mid - life crisis complacent hippies can drone on for 40 minutes about some nonsense mythology they've invented whilst on drugs on the other

Actually they weren't as forward thinking as that.

On the 21st of June 1948 at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York Columbia Records unveiled the LP.
In competition a different company, RCA Victor unveiled the single. There followed for two years the war of speeds won they say by Columbia because the LP had so much more music on it.

Vinyl has been read the last rites many times but it's still there.
I do feel sorry for all those people who had to replace their records in the 80's with CD's and then downloads in the Naughties. It must be hard for them having to buy records all over again now. Some of us kept their original collections

Next time you're at a Pelican Crossing look under the control panel.



On some you'll see this cone shaped knurled knob:



It's there for the assistance of the visually impaired. When the red light is on the wheel is stationary and when the light changes to green the knob starts spinning. That doesn't mean it's safe to cross, just that the green light is on.
The idea eminated at Nottingham University.

The average person will spend six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green

A penis neither loves or hates but sits patiently waiting for a hole to live in

Gene Autry is the only person to be awarded stars in all five categories on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (film, television, music, radio, and live performance).