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Didn't know the Blackbirds were mounted on trollies. No day is wasted if ya learn something new.

 

THAT

would be one FAST trolley!

 

 

& Jim,

I thought you'd have some inneresting tidbits of info for this thread :yes:

 

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Post up your obscurely strange, cool facts here folks :P

 

I'll start

 

 

 

 

Coolest thing I read all day :)

 

1/4 of the way down the page

https://en.wikipedia...Buick_V8_engine

 

Anyone wanna top that?

;)

i learned to drive on dads 55 buick century. great car and one of the fastest of it's time. CHIP used them for 55, 56, and 57.

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Told my brother to put his elbow in his ear. 5 minutes of hilarity ensued.

You hear a sound every time you swallow.

Excluding breaks, you'll never touch your right elbow with your right hand

Your nose is always in your vision, but your brain "deletes" it

You are now manually breathing.

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Henrietta Lacks died in 1951.

 

Henrietta-David-Lacks-1945-388.jpg

 

Chances are,

CANCER CELLS harvested from her cervix have been injected into you,

or someone you know;

 

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/Henrietta-Lacks-Immortal-Cells.html?device=other

 

Her cancer cells were found to be immortal,

and have been the basis of millions of individual biological studies,

11,000 biological patents, was the cornerstone of developing the polio vaccine,

and were unintentionally used in even more experiments and cultures;

 

Twenty-five years after Henrietta died, a scientist discovered that many cell cultures thought to be from other tissue types, including breast and prostate cells, were in fact HeLa cells. It turned out that HeLa cells could float on dust particles in the air and travel on unwashed hands and contaminate other cultures. It became an enormous controversy. In the midst of that, one group of scientists tracked down Henrietta’s relatives to take some samples with hopes that they could use the family’s DNA to make a map of Henrietta’s genes so they could tell which cell cultures were HeLa and which weren’t, to begin straightening out the contamination problem.

 

More info;

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks

 

http://hela-transfection.com/

 

http://www.virology.ws/2009/02/09/the-amazing-hela-cells-of-henrietta-lacks/

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When I worked with the Brits, I never could stomach beans for breakfast or mayo on chips (french fries) and everything else that wasn't a bean, but they were equally disgusted by my mass consumption of salsa and jalapenos. Their idea of hot sauce is humorous, but my idea of hot sauce would be deadly to the average Brit.

 

BTW, don't call a Welshman, or an Englishman, or a Scot a Brit. Damn sure don't call call an Irishman a Brit.

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