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Post up facts and things that hardly anyone knows...... (for entertainment purposes only. NO need to fact check)

1968 "Classic Gasoline"


"Classical Gas" is an instrumental musical piece composed and originally performed by Mason Williams with instrumental backing by members of the Wrecking Crew. Originally named "Classical Gasoline", the tune was envisioned to be "fuel" for the classical guitar repertoire.Williams was the head writer for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour at the time of the piece's release and premiered the composition on the show. Williams performed it several times over several episodes.
 

A Corned Beef Sandwich Was Smuggled Into Space​

Astronaut food is the stuff of science — often heavily processed to give it the chance to hold up in space, and sometimes looking less than appetizing. That’s why one astronaut packed his own sandwich and jetted off into space with it. In 1965, NASA pilot John Young hid a corned beef sandwich in his spacesuit pocket prior to the launch of the Gemini III. Nearly halfway through the five-hour flight, Young pulled out the sandwich and offered a bite to mission commander Gus Grissom, though the unfinished sandwich was stowed away after breadcrumbs began to make a mess. Young was reprimanded once back on Earth, and a congressional inquiry took place. A resin-preserved replica of the sandwich now sits at the Grissom Memorial Museum in Mitchell, Indiana.
 
The QWERTY keyboard was invented to slow typists down to keep from sticking typewriter keys and is about the least efficient manner of typing. But humans are stubborn and still use it to this day.

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A coin flip isn't a 50/50 proposition. It's 51/49 favoring whichever side of the coin is up when it's flipped.

Some people keep a $50 or $100 behind their driver's license in their wallet for when ATM refuses their card.

I keep $100 in 20’s in the owners manuals of my vehicles. I’ve left home without a wallet a few times.
 
Mack's R model tractors, built from 1964 to 1989, could be broken into, and driven off in under a minute, with no damage. The vent window on the driver's door could be popped inside out with a well placed fist, and the inside door handle was within easy reach. Touching a quarter to the starter relay contacts would start the engine. I used this technique more than a few times when drivers quit without notice, and I had to recover the truck.

The trucks were popular with thieves planning to ship them overseas. With the exhaust stack removed, they would easily fit in a shipping container.
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Other than that those were some tough old trucks! Man those were some work horses. Interesting how they were quick to swipe and would fit in a container.
 
Some of you tool wizards will know this but some might not. The shape of a screwdriver handle is designed so that you can put a socket on it for extra grip.

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Car #4 said:
Some of you tool wizards will know this but some might not. The shape of a screwdriver handle is designed so that you can put a socket on it for extra grip.

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Never saw that before but now I have to give it a shot.
Some 42 years ago, I was shown a similar "hack" for getting out tightly installed screws. It involves a drill press, channel locks and screw driver. Use it to this day.
 
The Beatles didn't officially break up until 1974. Although it's common knowledge that they separated in 1970 and were inactive as a group after that, John Lennon didn't sign the official paperwork to legally dissolve the group until December 29, 1974. He did it while taking a vacation at Disneyland.
 
The only solo album to include all four former Beatles, who all performed and provided songwriting on it, was Ringo Starr's million selling 'RINGO', which led to rumors that the group was getting back together.
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The very first American coins were struck in Boston, Massachusetts by silversmith John Hull in 1652.
 
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Ringo Starr married Barbara Bach (no relation of Catherine Bach aka Daisy Duke), and therefore by virtue of Barbara's sister Marjorie, Ringo is now brother-in-law to Eagles guitarist Joe Walsh.

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Barbara Bach, Ringo Starr, Joe Walsh, and Marjorie Bach in 2015
 
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The very first American coins were struck in Boston, Massachusetts by silversmith John Hull in 1652.
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Now that's interesting. I found a picture of his coins, he made Threepence, Sixpence and Shilling coins. The NE stands for New England.
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No matter where you are on Earth, when you look up in the night sky every star you see belongs to the Milky Way Galaxy!
 

The “Jim Twins” Led Remarkably Similar Lives​

Finally, there’s the case of James Springer and James Lewis, identical twins who went their separate ways as infants through adoption yet went on to live eerily similar lives before reuniting at age 39. Each grew up with a brother named Larry, had a pet dog named Toy, went into law enforcement, and named his first-born son James Allan (with slightly different spellings). And even if you chalk some of those matches up to genetic disposition, it doesn’t quite explain how each twin somehow married a woman named Linda before following with a second wife named Betty, or how both settled on the same vacation spot at a small beach in St. Petersburg, Florida, more than 1,000 miles away from where they were separately reared in Ohio.
 
In the Middle Ages, green symbolized inconstancy and betrayal. Paintings with Judas often showed him wearing green clothing. This association may have come from the difficulties of making green dye. Green dye was made from plants, and it was unstable because the color would fade over time.
 
The earliest Dodge trucks to offer diesel power were all the way back in 1939. Rather than buy from another maker, Dodge built their own engines for these vehicles.
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