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Interesting trivia thread
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The tragedy of this is a horse born on 31st December will be classed as 1 year old the next day, a horse should not be backed until four years old due to development but due to the above barbaric law some horses will be backed a year early & suffer a sagging back causing skeletal problems.
In 2005, the Ministry of Defence issued special antimicrobial underwear that can be worn up to three months at a time without needing a change.
I thought all men's underwear was the same
No idea. Haven't worn underwear since 1980.I thought all men's underwear was the same
Strides are getting a bit stiff, mind you......
The last production car to have a cassette player installed as standard equipment was the Lexus LS430 in 1990.
I think not !
my 99 yaris had one as did most of the previous yaris models unless a cd was specified by the original buyer, 2000 models had CD players as standard
The Doris' 2000 Ibiza has a cassette player as standard.
I think Mr Beaker may be confusing cassette players with 8-track players
its is age you know
Don’t have a pop at me, have a pop at Fifth Gear where the information was broadcast. a
Cant trust anyone these days.
I can but assume they were referring to proper, desirable cars for those with style rather than heaps of crap used by the great unwashed.
The last car to come equipped with a factory installed cassette player was the Lexus SC430 in 2010.
Is that the sound of frantic back pedaling I hear
Yup.Is that the sound of frantic back pedaling I hear
The eight track cartridge so admired by this forum (well Slim anyway) was developed in 1964 by a consortium led by Bill Lear of the Lear Jet Corporation
The first Learjet (the Learjet 23) flew in 1963.
Production of the last Learjet was announced in 2021.
Ryanair have three Learjets used mainly to ferry engineers and parts around but also used by company executives.
A brother (Kel Ryan) of the founder of Ryanair (Tony Ryan) was my boss when I worked at Heathrow (I was not working for Ryanair).
Tony Ryan attended my stag do in 1981 and covered the bar bill after first discretely asking if it would be all right as he didn't wish to offend!
The first Learjet (the Learjet 23) flew in 1963.
Production of the last Learjet was announced in 2021.
Ryanair have three Learjets used mainly to ferry engineers and parts around but also used by company executives.
A brother (Kel Ryan) of the founder of Ryanair (Tony Ryan) was my boss when I worked at Heathrow (I was not working for Ryanair).
Tony Ryan attended my stag do in 1981 and covered the bar bill after first discretely asking if it would be all right as he didn't wish to offend!
The Mars rover Opportunity was expected to be serviceable for 90 days after successfully landing on Mars; the expectation was that the dusty atmosphere would foul the solar panels that powered it.
It lasted 14.5 years. Photographs sent back showed frequent ‘dust devils’ that are believed to have regularly ‘hoovered’ the solar panels
It lasted 14.5 years. Photographs sent back showed frequent ‘dust devils’ that are believed to have regularly ‘hoovered’ the solar panels
The NASA Mars Climate Orbiter failed to land successfully on Mars in 1999 due to a component supplier using the metric scale in the software they developed that was different to that which NASA used and had specified. The metric scale was, with disastrous consequence, not compatible with that NASA used.
The project cost US$327.6m and had been sixteen years in the making.
Interestingly NASA did not blame the contractor (Lockheed Martin) but accepted responsibility themselves for not having adequate checks and quality control processes in place. How refreshing.
The project cost US$327.6m and had been sixteen years in the making.
Interestingly NASA did not blame the contractor (Lockheed Martin) but accepted responsibility themselves for not having adequate checks and quality control processes in place. How refreshing.
