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Fun Factoid Of The Day

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onwardjames

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Hello everyone!

The rule is as follows - post a "factoid" you heard somewhere, read somewhere, or otherwise think might be both entertaining AND accurate.

No need to goalkeep this one, but please adhere to posting what you believe is true, and of course, no politics, religion, or other verboten topics.

Musically related is good.

I'll begin.


Did you know that Steve Farris played the smoking guitar solo on KISS's hit "Creatures Of The NIght" ?? Who is Steve Farris? Well, you likely know his band Mr. Mister, with hits such as "Kyrie" and "Broken Wings".

All these years, I assumed it was Vinnie Vincent.
 
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onwardjames said:
Example of a non-musical variety?

Did you know that the Three Gorges Dam in China literally slowed the Earth's rotation? Yeah, it was a tiny amount, but, damn!

I thought that only happened in Superman (with Christopher Reeve). Who knew? ;)
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So THATS why we have we global warming! Slow the earth's rotation, the sun warms the earth a little more during the day. I seem to remember it caused a tiny bit of tilt also? :idea:
 
The magnetic north pole is currently around 500 km away from the geographical north pole.. and it changes..
That's why nobody has ever found Santa's workshop.. :biggrin:

This concept never entered my mind(I'm just an Okie) until I started taking flying lessons.. my instructor mentioned that the compass was about 3 degrees off from true north..

The compass always points to magnetic north, not the North pole(Geographic north)
 
The NPR series, Tiny Desk Concerts was created by a guy, Bob Boylen, who in the 80s had a band called Tiny Desk Unit. I never saw the band perform, but I'd see their posters on phone poles around Baltimore and DC (I grew up nearby). I remembered the name because I always thought that it was cool, even though I knew nothing at all about the music. I looked up the band on YouTube and kind of dug what I checked out (new wave/post punk sounds). Boylen was the keyboard player...
 
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8-track tapes were originally developed in the mid 1960s by Bill Lear, so that music could be easily played on his Learjet planes without adverse impacts by turbulence. Realizing that his invention would also be perfect for cars, he convinced the major US auto manufacturers to include players in their 1966 lineups. And so started the mass availability of portable tape-based music/recordings for the automobile.

Thanks a LOT Bill…

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onwardjames said:
Hello everyone!

The rule is as follows - post a "factoid" you heard somewhere, read somewhere, or otherwise think might be both entertaining AND accurate.

No need to goalkeep this one, but please adhere to posting what you believe is true, and of course, no politics, religion, or other verboten topics.

Musically related is good.

I'll begin.


Did you know that Steve Farris played the smoking guitar solo on KISS's hit "Creatures Of The NIght" ?? Who is Steve Farris? Well, you likely know his band Mr. Mister, with hits such as "Kyrie" and "Broken Wings".

All these years, I assumed it was Vinnie Vincent.
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General Burqualter of Hogans Hero’s was the most unhealthy looking actor in the bunch lived to be in his mid 90s ! Was also Jewish , escaped nazi Germany and served in the U S army in Ww2 !
 
oldflame said:
The #45 output tube was claimed to produce "high" wattage when it first came out. A bit later, the 300B must have been considered a "super-tube".
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Compared to its predecessor types '12 for battery sets and type '71 for the first "electric" AC sets, the '45 power tube for AC sets with power hogging electrodynamic speakers was, but the types '10 and '50 were more so. The type 10 saw domestic service as the power stage in the Radiola type 104 loudspeaker system ca 1924-25, the very first production electrodynamic loudspeaker.
The WE VT 4/ 211 eclipsed them all, but mainly saw theatre use for the talkies.
The 45 was the Go-to common power triode for AC home radios until the first power pentodes of the early 1930s (47, then 42), with countless numbers produced by anyone for everyone.
 
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