The thread of learning something new every day
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Billy Hitler:
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Ok this is weird.
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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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@taniwharugby said in The thread of learning something new every day:
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Could a Blue Whale's Fart Contain a Horse?
This story, like the feeding behavior of the animal in question, is a deep dive.
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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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QI to read a selling point of the underground when it first came to fruition was it being so cool on a hot day.
TfL testing a world-first idea for cooling the London Underground
The famously hot parts of the London Underground could become a lot more pleasant to use if a new way of cooling the tube proves to work, and the money is found to install it in tube stations.
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There's An Important UK Motorway That The Public Is Not Allowed To Use
This little-known strip of road is only used in very specific circumstances
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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
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Hidden underwater village resurfaces for first time in 40 years as UK heatwave dries lake - The Mirror
Beautiful Lake Vyrnwy in Powys in Wales is the site of the abandoned ruins of the lost village of Llanwddyn - the UK's intense heatwave conditions have exposed them for the first time since 1976
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@Bones yeah I was reading about that yesterday, plenty of places in Europe 'exposing' old/historic sites...cool but worrying also
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Assuming legit, the ABs have a 0% win record vs someone!
William Stuart-Houston - Wikipedia
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