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Following on from this.
How many people know that the colourant used for red smarties is derived from crushed insects, or at least it was until recently.
The bright red colourant is processed from scale insects, in particular the dried body of the female cochineal insect, collected in central America.
The colorant is called cochineal, also known as carmine or E120.
It is really from the carminic acid that the insects produce to deter predators.
Also relating to food and beverages using weird animal stuff.
Guinness amongst most other brewers use a product called isinglass to help in the clarification or fining of beers.
It is a collagen that was originally sourced from the the dried swim bladders of sturgeons, especially beluga.
In later years a cheaper alternative was derived from cod.
So technically if you are a vegan you should not drink beer.
Ah so that was why they got into the furniture business.
Guinness don't use isinglass any more,
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One of the ways the Beatles music struck a chord(no pun) and sounded so new, different and "special" is though their music sounded like pop songs they regularly used particular chord progressions that were rare if not absent in most pop/rock/blues of the time(and even now). One was the plagal cadence usually found in hymns and older church music and half cadence and deceptive cadence where they threw in a note that the listener wasn't expecting, usually by throwing in a minor note/chord when you'd expect a major. They did this from the early days of their screaming Beatlemania pop stuff all the way through their later experimental stuff. Interestingly all of them did this, even Ringo when he wrote the occasional song. A song like Lennon's Jealous Guy(originally written for the band) is written in the pentatonic scale. Essentially Eastern music, like say trad Indian music. Yet in his hands it doesn't sound "Eastern" at all. And even though Rhythm and Blues was their first love and cited as their major influence they only ever wrote, recorded and released one "proper" 12 bar Blues song(Yer Blues. It did what it said on the tin). Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.
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Nitroglycerin production threw up an interesting furniture innovation, namely the one legged stool. The worker tasked with keeping an eye on the chemical process involved in making the stuff sat on such a stool, designed so he wouldn't fall asleep.Capt'n Midnight wrote: »Nitroglycerin can be used to treat angina.
Another weird one was the early celluloid film stock for "moving pictures" and still. It was in essence a strip of nitroglycerin. If the temperatures rose above a certain point it would burn and keep burning until all the film was consumed. Many old films have been lost because of this. One reason why the projector in your modern cinema is behind a wall at the back peeking through an opening is because of this early danger of runaway conflagration. Interestingly acetate type film stock had been around almost as long, but the celluloid was more flexible and gave better tonality, at least in black and white films.
Celluloid was used in other applications. Basically it was an early "plastic" so items made of that were often made of celluloid. And they regularly went up in smoke. One example was snooker balls. They were made from ivory and that was expensive so a couple of bods reckoned they could make them from celluloid. Great, only in some early examples a decent hit between two balls on the baize could result in a bit of a bang. Even playing cards coated in the stuff could go up.
Poker player earlier. With the kind of explosive hand he wasn't expecting.
Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.
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Nitroglycerin production threw up an interesting furniture innovation, namely the one legged stool.
Celluloid was used in other applications. Basically it was an early "plastic" so items made of that were often made of celluloid. And they regularly went up in smoke. One example was snooker balls. They were made from ivory and that was expensive so a couple of bods reckoned they could make them from celluloid. Great, only in some early examples a decent hit between two balls on the baize could result in a bit of a bang. Even playing cards coated in the stuff could go up.
Poker player earlier. With the kind of explosive hand he wasn't expecting.
One of the flawed pieces of evidence that was used against the Birmingham Six was a Nitroglycerine test. They were all found with traces of it on their fingers, but this was because they were playing cards on the train on the way to the port where they were arrested.
Card playing on a train would have been a very popular pastime back then: no personal stereos like a Walkman, no mobile devices. You could chat, read a book, look out the window, or play cards.
Thing is, the police could have arrested thousands of people in pubs that night playing cards and most of them would have been arrested under the same test.0 -
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After you read the following you'll second guess the use of the word 'has-been' in acting
But in Hollywood actors, like musicians, get royalties. But they are more commonly called 'Residuals' in tinsel town.
In 2014 the main cast of the hit TV show Friends received $2 million dollars each a part of their residuals. Friends is a popular TV show still airing throughout the world of course.
Some actors (usually bigger stars) can even get a share of dvd or back in the day vhs sales.
So next time you hear someone say that an actor is a has been and hasn't done anything in 20 years? Look towards the actors collection of work. Even one hit movie or TV show can bring checks in for decades to come.
Bob Gunton, the actor who played the warden in the amazing Shawshank Redemption, once said in 2004 that he was still receiving "steady income, close to six figures".0 -
Reminds me of Don McLean, when he was once asked what is real the meaning of American Pie. "It means I don't have to work another day in my life if I don't want to".B.A._Baracus wrote: »After you read the following you'll second guess the use of the word 'has-been' in acting
But in Hollywood actors, like musicians, get royalties. But they are more commonly called 'Residuals' in tinsel town.
In 2014 the main cast of the hit TV show Friends received $2 million dollars each a part of their residuals. Friends is a popular TV show still airing throughout the world of course.
Some actors (usually bigger stars) can even get a share of dvd or back in the day vhs sales.
So next time you hear someone say that an actor is a has been and hasn't done anything in 20 years? Look towards the actors collection of work. Even one hit movie or TV show can bring checks in for decades to come.
Bob Gunton, the actor who played the warden in the amazing Shawshank Redemption, once said in 2004 that he was still receiving "steady income, close to six figures".0 -
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Would you have a reference or a link for this cdeb? Fascinating if true, but I'm wondering at the physics of it.Anyways, it was then discovered that further beneath the cooling room was a natural tablebase. If the magma leaked into this, the resulting explosion would destroy Minsk, 200 miles away, and render Europe practically uninhabitable.
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Link is the tour I was on today.
Or try the documentary "Battle for Chernobyl" on YouTube.
It didn't go into specifics, but I imagine an issue has to have been the other three operating reactors at close proximity to number 4. So the magma/water reaction would create intense steam, and upwards pressure on the lead/sand dumped into the reactor to try seal it. But the pressure has to go somewhere, and reactor 3 is right beside 4. I can see that not ending well at all0
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