An interesting thing I didn't know until today

[Sits]

Chubby Checker's stage name was a play on Fats Domino.

Also Chubby Checker is alive.

[Stumpy Pepys]

I just found out Alan Titchmarsh is very popular in North Korea.

[Nocturnal Submission]

I put this on the Current Watching thread, but it should really go on this one too: like her mother, Marie Curie's daughter won a Nobel Prize and they both helped set-up and operate mobile radiography units on the Western Front during WWI.

[Patrick Thistle]

I put this on the Current Watching thread, but it should really go on this one too: like her mother, Marie Curie's daughter won a Nobel Prize and they both helped set-up and operate mobile radiography units on the Western Front during WWI.

Her husband and two other relatives (son in law?, grandchild?) also won Nobel Prizes. Five Nobel Prizes in the family.

[Patrick Thistle]

An impact between a ship and a stationary object like a pier or bridge abutment is called an "allision" as opposed to a collision, where two objects run into each other.

(Learned from commentary on the Baltimore bridge disaster.)

[ursus arctos]

Her husband and two other relatives (son in law?, grandchild?) also won Nobel Prizes. Five Nobel Prizes in the family.

The Curie family is a French-Polish family from which hailed a number of illustrious scientists. Pierre Curie, his Polish-born wife Marie Skłodowska-Curie, their daughter, Irène, and son-in-law, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, are its most prominent members. Five members of the family in total were awarded a Nobel Prize. Marie and Pierre shared a Nobel Prize in Physics and Marie was awarded a second one in chemistry, making her the only person in history to win a Nobel Prize in two scientific disciplines; Irène and Frédéric Joliot-Curie won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935; while Henry Richardson Labouisse, Jr., the spouse of Irène's younger sister, Ève Curie, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1965. The chemical element curium (number 96) is named after Marie and Pierre.

[Nocturnal Submission]

Labouisse is a bit of a cheat, as he accepted the prize on behalf of UNICEF which he'd only just been appointed to head up, but hey.

He was also director of the UNRWA in the '50s, just to hammer home how long that organisation has sadly been in existence, (formed in 1949).

[Satchmo Distel]

The drums at the start of the Band Aid single were sampled from 'The Hurting' by Tears For Fears:

https://www.whosampled.com/Band-Aid/...-Christmas%3F/

[Snake Plissken]

An impact between a ship and a stationary object like a pier or bridge abutment is called an "allision" as opposed to a collision, where two objects run into each other.

(Learned from commentary on the Baltimore bridge disaster.)

One of those things that seems blatantly obvious in hindsight given the usual usage of “co-“.

[3 Colours Red]

The drums at the start of the Band Aid single were sampled from 'The Hurting' by Tears For Fears:

https://www.whosampled.com/Band-Aid/...-Christmas%3F/

Said to be the reason why Roland and Curt didn't appear at Live Aid - Midge Ure did not seek permission to use the sample.

[Hot Pepsi]

[slackster]

It’s been a while for me, but has anybody ever managed to eat a ‘warm’ pop tart without scalding their mouth badly because of the volcanically hot filling? [Same applies to McDonald’s Apple Pie]

[Hot Pepsi]

It is hard to pick the right time in the cool-down process to eat it. Same with microwave burritos.

[Amor de Cosmos]

I rarely use a microwave for that reason. Hot from the inside out, rather than the outside in, is just... wrong.

[Hot Pepsi]

Correct. The toaster oven is the way to go.

[Balderdasha]

I've never eaten a pop tart. I know what I imagine they'd taste like but I don't know if that's an accurate assumption. I suspect they're on sale in the UK these days but I've never seen them.

[Gangster Octopus]

I've a very similar non-experience.

[Cal Alamein]

Chubby Checker's stage name was a play on Fats Domino.

Also Chubby Checker is alive.

He played a gig last May at a nearby casino - https://tickets.holdmyticket.com/tickets/412507

[Hot Pepsi]

I've never eaten a pop tart. I know what I imagine they'd taste like but I don't know if that's an accurate assumption. I suspect they're on sale in the UK these days but I've never seen them.

Imagine sugar wrapped in sugar coated with sugar and a bit of jam-like substance in the middle.

I sometimes find myself wanting some, but if I eat one, I regret it.

[Satchmo Distel]

IIRC Chubby's a rather bitter man who feels his role in pop history is underrated. But "The Twist" was a cover and he milked it mercilessly; I can't really see any merit in his complaint.

[Southport Zeb]

There is an annual basketball tournament for schools in North Carolina called the Frank Spencer Holiday Classic. I presume all players are required to wear berets and make at least one wayward pass per game into the stands, causing upset for a local business man.

[Lang Spoon]

I've never eaten a pop tart. I know what I imagine they'd taste like but I don't know if that's an accurate assumption. I suspect they're on sale in the UK these days but I've never seen them.

I remember them becoming a thing in the early to mid 90s, one of many shit madelaine moments that transport me back to utter boredom and distate and waiting for life to start along with Gladiators, Baywatch, 4 non blondes, Tasmin Archer, white cider...

[WOM]

I sometimes find myself wanting some, but if I eat one, I regret it.

Every ten years or so, I buy a box and eat just one before vividly remembering why I don’t buy them. Same with KFC.

[ursus arctos]

I had a few bites of one in the mid 60s, soon after they came out.

It may well have been a free sample, which used to be a thing.

Didn't finish it and have never been tempted to try one since.

[San Bernardhinault]

I’m actually not sure if I’ve ever had one. I feel like I know what they taste like, but that might all be from seeing them and then deciding not to eat one. I know if I have had one, it was definitely not more than two, and well over 2 decades ago.