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Just like the title says, offer up a worthless shred or two of info that you know. I'll start:
-The beginning of "Intergalactic," by the Beastie Boys features a robotic sound. It's actually Mike D singing "Intergalactic, Planetary, Planetary, Intergalactic" through a vocoder. If you've never noticed this, que it up and listen... it will stick out like a sore thumb once you hear it.
-The official beginning of the Medieval English language can be traced back to the Battle of Hastings in 1066, when the Normans conquered the Anglo-Saxons. The result was an intermingling of the old French tongue with the Anglo-Saxon one, resulting in what we'd call "Old English." The resulting language eschewed many words from the previous one, making them swear words; the same ones we don't use in polite company today.
-Polar Bears have black skin.
-The beginning of "Intergalactic," by the Beastie Boys features a robotic sound. It's actually Mike D singing "Intergalactic, Planetary, Planetary, Intergalactic" through a vocoder. If you've never noticed this, que it up and listen... it will stick out like a sore thumb once you hear it.
-The official beginning of the Medieval English language can be traced back to the Battle of Hastings in 1066, when the Normans conquered the Anglo-Saxons. The result was an intermingling of the old French tongue with the Anglo-Saxon one, resulting in what we'd call "Old English." The resulting language eschewed many words from the previous one, making them swear words; the same ones we don't use in polite company today.
-Polar Bears have black skin.
An ER visit will most likely not give you a definitive answer, but we will make sure you aren't dying and will then tell you to follow up with your primary doctor in 2-3 days, all for a hefty price tag. Start with Motrin and Tylenol
The square root of 69 is "ate something".
A bad player at 3rd base does not screw everybody at the blackjack table.
The type of wood does not affect the tone of an electric guitar.
I wonder what world changing information got displaced in my mind to make room for that uselessness?
The Shop
40 Hz sound wave is about 28 feet long.
A violin can play up to 4000 Hz.
4000 Hz sound wave is about .28 feet long.
You are standing on Jimmy Hoffa, I looked down and next to a garage door was a patch of different concrete about six by three feet.
Many decades later I revisited the place, now turned into expensive condos, I asked for a tour as a perspective buyer, sure enough that odd patch of concrete is still there.....
you can get gonorrhea in a hot tub
Pit Row
Learned that from an old redneck Ron
Alpha Centauri is our closest solar system at 4.37 light years away. So multiply each second in a year by 186,282 miles and you'll have the distance to our nearest celestial "brother".
Space is big... really really really big.
... oh almost forgot ... "space" never ends.
Explain that to a 5yr old.
Halloween was extremely popular in medieval Europe, it was the night when the veil between both worlds was seen as the thinnest and evil spirits would roam the countryside. Medieval Europeans would on punkie night (an old world for lantern) carve various vegetables into faces to keep away evil spirits, pumpkins were only used after the discovery of the Americas.
Dressage has its origins in training horses for battle.
Some warhorses would be useless after being in one battle, it was all they could stand.
The first Crusade was a response to Islamic expansion and was primarily motivated by religion for its participants, not money or land. (Kingdom of heaven I'm looking at you, you steaming pile of shit of a movie)
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