what I have learned today.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Quaking Houses, however...

Wikipedia suggests it may have been originally settled by Quakers. I'd have thought in that area its name was more likely due to mining subsidence. Whatever the origin, it's a great name.

[JonBuoy]

Quaking Houses, however...

Wikipedia suggests it may have been originally settled by Quakers. I'd have thought in that area its name was more likely due to mining subsidence. Whatever the origin, it's a great name.

I see that there is somewhere called No Place just the other side of Stanley from Quaking Houses.

[Cudzoziemiec]

There's No Place like home.

[Flite]

Legend has it that No Place was a tax evasion ploy

[L CC]

Office has it that No Place has nice views - if you're lucky and haven't had your windows smashed and replaced with wood.

[T42]

The graves of French soldiers who died on 11th Nov 1918 are dated 10th Nov 1918 "to spare the families extra grief".  The last to die, Augustin Trébuchon, was killed at 10:55 on 11/11/1918, 16 minutes before the cease-fire took effect.

[rogerzilla]

Gal Gadot has a brother called Guy.

Yes, the parents called their kids Guy and Gal 

[L CC]

^^
Very disappointed to find that's not actually true. 

[T42]

Maybe this'll cheer you up: In 1967 a Bavarian gent built a catapult to shoot potato dumplings at Starfighters...

https://h2g2.com/edited_entry/A87904407

[mark]

Maybe this'll cheer you up: In 1967 a Bavarian gent built a catapult to shoot potato dumplings at Starfighters...

https://h2g2.com/edited_entry/A87904407

I lived in Munich from late 1967 until 1972. We were on the opposite side of town from this gentleman, but we had a pretty good stream of passenger jets flying overhead on their approach to Munich-Riem airport (the old airport, much closer to town than the current airport. We also had a steady stream of helicopters landing at the nearby hospital. I can't say I blame the man for doing this.

[Mr Larrington]

In the part of Germany that was the location of Fort Larrington in 1968-70 supersonic overflights were pretty common, though not generally at low altitude.  Though you needed to be ready to run if the aircraft in question was a Luftwaffe F104-G

[ElyDave]

In the part of Germany that was the location of Fort Larrington in 1968-70 supersonic overflights were pretty common, though not generally at low altitude.  Though you needed to be ready to run if the aircraft in question was a Luftwaffe F104-G

Because they were generally prone to uncontrolled flight leading to unintended contact with random parts of Germany?

[spesh]

In the part of Germany that was the location of Fort Larrington in 1968-70 supersonic overflights were pretty common, though not generally at low altitude.  Though you needed to be ready to run if the aircraft in question was a Luftwaffe F104-G

Because they were generally prone to uncontrolled flight leading to unintended contact with random parts of Germany?

Many F-104G losses were attributed to controlled flight into terrain (CFIT) - IOW, they were under control, but the pilot didn't realise they were about to hit the scenery until it was too late to do anything about it. This was a product of the type being employed in the low-altitude fighter-bomber role (for which it hadn't been originally designed), in an environment with crummy weather, flown by pilots with insufficient fast jet experience (the USAF recommended 1,500 hours logged before flying a F-104, West German pilots typically had around 400 hours).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_F-104_Starfighter#West_German_service

[Mr Larrington]

Two hundred and fifty is all we can cope with!

We! Need! Seven! Hundred! At! Least!

[spesh]

Franz Josef Strauss walt.

[T42]

C.f. Lockheed slush fund (alleged, of course).

[Pingu]

Turbojet trains and Aérotrain.

[Cudzoziemiec]

That ticks and other invertebrate parasites can actually teleport.

“This is quite unique given that ticks cannot jump to reach their hosts,” says Martin Giurfa, a neuroscientist at University of Toulouse in France who studies learning and memory in insects and who was not involved in the study. “The fact that they are teletransported by the electrostatic fields produced by their hosts … is remarkable.” It’s possible, he adds, that other parasites that latch on to skin might be similarly attracted to their hosts. Previous research has demonstrated how parasitic nematodes can use static electricity to catapult themselves on to fruit flies (SN: 3/16/23).

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/static-electricity-pull-ticks-hosts

[Kim]

I'd say that was more 'levitate' than 'teleport'.  Which is still pretty cool.

[Wowbagger]

Yesterday, actually, but it is so important that I have to share it.

The Latin name for the Lesser Earwig is labia minor.

[Tim Hall]

Courtesy of a post by M le Maire, today I am mostly learning of the existence of the Upgoer 5 text editor

[Asterix, the former Gaul.]

’Napoleon’ is a great Dad-movie with exploding horses.

[Kim]

’Napoleon’ is a great Dad-movie with exploding horses.

Do they fall into a ravine, explode and then a single flaming horseshoe rolls out of the fireball inna Music With Rocks In style?

[Asterix, the former Gaul.]

’Napoleon’ is a great Dad-movie with exploding horses.

Do they fall into a ravine, explode and then a single flaming horseshoe rolls out of the fireball inna Music With Rocks In style?

Oh, I so hope it’s as good as that..

[Wombat]

I hope you know nothing about the Napoleonic era, Asterix?  As a person who is a member of the Napoleonic Association, I have it on good authority that it is utter garbage, and Ridley Scott should be ashamed of himself.  If you know nothing about the subject, it'll be a good lively action thing, though. Always the way, with any film or TV programme about "your subject".