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[Por_sha911]

Originally Posted by herr_oberst

The Colt 45 was invented to put down the Moro Warriors durning the Philippine - American conflict of 1899-1902

Wow, who knew?

[Steve Carlton]

Originally Posted by Tobra

Apparently, Fonzie's motorcycle in Happy Days was the same bike that Steve McQueen rode in The Great Escape.

[Steve Carlton]

Originally Posted by herr_oberst

The Colt 45 was invented to put down the Moro Warriors during the Philippine - American conflict of 1899-1902

It's an interesting story about the need for a self-loading .45:

Despite adhering to the Muslim faith, the Moro warriors often took drugs to inhibit the feeling of pain in battle, while the hallucinatory effects would allow the warriors to feel invincible.

Between the armor, the drugs and simply the fact that the Moro – who had resisted foreign rule for 400 years – were bad asses in the truest sense meant that the .38 round lacked the stopping power the Army needed. Stories were told of U.S. soldiers found lying dead with their throats cut next to a dead Moro warrior who had taken six shots to the chest.

The situation was so desperate that for a while soldiers reverted to the M1873 single-action revolver in the .45 Colt caliber as the heavier bullet proved to be more effective against the charging tribesman.

The Army needed a better sidearm, and U.S. Army’s Chief of Ordnance, General William Crozier, authorized testing for a new service pistol and cartridge to go with it.

https://www.19fortyfive.com/2021/12/firearms-legend-how-the-us-armys-m1911-45-acp-gun-was-born/

[HobieMarty]

The Lone Ranger's nephew's horse's name was Victor and Victor was the son of the Lone Ranger's horse, Silver!!!

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[Bill Douglas]

Goldfish remember important things for five months.

Girl at the pet shop said the goldfish ignored the 100s of customers who came to the shop, but came tearing over to the side of the tank when they saw the feeding lady.

[afterburn 549]

Snapping Turtles can jump off the ground!
Is pretty amazing to see.

[svandamme]

Originally Posted by KC911

Your class sizes must have been huge!

fact : I didn't say 4 billion in the class

[svandamme]

fact : sometimes it's better to accelerate then to brake to avoid a collision.
Speed is Life.

[svandamme]

Originally Posted by Por_sha911

Wow, who knew?

That probably would have worked just as well in enough quantities
fact : indigenous people are often more succeptible to addiction

Native Americans, Aboriginals, Islanders.
Some say its to do with Self-determination theory that says human motivation and well-being, in order to thrive, people need to feel autonomous.

[herr_oberst]

In 2009, Little Tikes reported annual sales of 457,000 cars—easily outselling Toyota Camry and Honda Accord that year. (ed, I believe this is US Sales)

[red 928]

[VenezianBlau 87]

House flies always take off in a forward direction.

[Steve Carlton]

Originally Posted by red 928

I remember watching that episode. What a great show that was. Did you see the episode where Cliff got on Jeopardy?

[red 928]

Originally Posted by Steve Carlton

I remember watching that episode. What a great show that was. Did you see the episode where Cliff got on Jeopardy?

He totally got ripped off
Incidentally, those people have never been in my kitchen either.

Electrons actually move through a wire from the negative terminal of a battery to the positive terminal; electrons are negatively charged. Positive charges appear to move the other direction, but actually stay put with their non-moving atoms.

https://www.douglaskrantz.com/ElecElectricalFlow.html#:~:text=Which%20way%20elec tricity%20flows%20depends%20what%20is%20being,but% 20actually%20stay%20put%20with%20their%20non-moving%20atoms.

[Steve Carlton]

LOL

[mjohnson]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

There is a large market for WW2 battleship's scrap steel!

Yup. I guess they don't do "In-vivo" whole body counts routinely anymore, just 2L of urine a month for a bioassay, but when I was in the plutonium business in Los Alamos about 20y ago twice a year you had to go to the Health Physics building. Down four flights of stairs into the bowels of the mesa and through 6" thick doors like a bank vault into a room built of WW1 battleship steel/iron. Sit in the chair, relax while they literally cover your chest with cryogenic radiation detectors. Hopefully not panic (claustrophobic?) when they leave amd shutting the many-ton door behind them. Try to relax for a soothing 20-30 minute paid nap.

fact: LA's HPL is home to one of Karen Silkwood's lungs - yes that Silkwood

[red 928]

[afterburn 549]

I saw frozen Golden fish come back to life when the cattle trough thawed out.

[GH85Carrera]

Those songs would scare me off as well.

[herr_oberst]

Before WWII, both National and Dobro bought the resonators for their distinctive sounding guitars from Adolph Rickenbacker.