The thread of learning something new every day
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According to Wiki, it is true...
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@tim said in The thread of learning something new every day:
This should be moved to the EPL thread. From what I've read, teams such as Spurs back in the 60s liked to pass through teams. But as a boy watching English football in the early 80s they valued aerial power and pace over skill on the ball, and route 1 predominated. Now I know why
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ELO do not yell out "Bruce" in "Don't Bring Me Down" ...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_Bring_Me_Down
A common mondegreen in the song is the perception that, following the title line, Lynne shouts "Bruce!" In the liner notes of the ELO compilation Flashback and elsewhere, Lynne has explained that he is singing a made-up word, "Groos", which some have suggested sounds like the German expression "Gruß," meaning "greeting."[8] Lynne has explained that originally he did not realize the meaning of the syllable, and he just used it as a temporary placekeeper to fill a gap in the lyrics, but upon learning the German meaning he decided to leave it in.[8] After the song's release, so many people had misinterpreted the word as "Bruce" that Lynne actually began to sing the word as "Bruce" for fun at live shows.[9][10][8]
ELO engineer Mack remembers the genesis of the term differently, stating that Lynne was actually singing "Bruce" as a joke in advance of an Australian tour "referring to how many Australian guys are called Bruce."[8]
Had to look up what it is he actually says after hearing said song today.
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Tooth in eye surgery.
https://www.rnib.org.uk/nb-online/tooth-in-eye-surgery#:~:text=Osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis (OOKP,implanted%20into%20the%20patient's%20eye.
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I learned that Louis XI commissioned a pig organ.
basically arrange a load of pigs in a line
When someone plays a note on a keyboard it causes a sharpened stake to poke a pig so that it emits a squeal.
Each note on the keyboard relates to a different pig.
Each pig produces a different note / squeal
and there you have the pig organ.
15th century France sounds like a barrel of laughs
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@taniwharugby said in The thread of learning something new every day:
Stuff can be interesting.
That’s so interesting, thanks! I just look at tide tables, but that makes me realise why sometimes I can’t make sense of them