An interesting thing I didn't know until today

[Patrick Thistle]

TIL that shortened URLs are completely blocked by the work firewall. No more tinyurls...

[slackster]

This must have come up on here before, as it seems a very OTF bit of trivia: only learnt today that WD-40 stands for Water Displacement version 40, which is very literal for an aerosol oil brand name. And also what I’ve always mis-called Duck Oil is actually Duct Oil.

[WOM]

Yup. And what everyone casually calls 'duck tape' is actually duct tape....tape to seal the joints in duct work so all the air doesn't leak out at every connection point.

[Fussbudget]

Wait, people really call it duck tape? I thought it was just lazy pronunciation

[ursus arctos]

It was, but became a brand, which is very USian

[1974ddr]

Not actually something I learned today, but last week; the biggest selling LP by a solo Beatle is All Things Must Pass by George Harrison. I found that both interesting and, frankly, astonishing. For those unfamiliar with it, ATMP is a triple album from 1970, so not only perhaps an unexpected choice, coming from 'one of the other two', but also an expensive purchase compared to single albums. I'd have gone some way down the list before I'd have guessed correctly.

[WOM]

All four members of KISS released a solo album on the same day, and guitarist (and not very good singer) Ace Frehley's outsold everyone else's by a healthy margin.

[Satchmo Distel]

Not actually something I learned today, but last week; the biggest selling LP by a solo Beatle is All Things Must Pass by George Harrison. I found that both interesting and, frankly, astonishing. For those unfamiliar with it, ATMP is a triple album from 1970, so not only perhaps an unexpected choice, coming from 'one of the other two', but also an expensive purchase compared to single albums. I'd have gone some way down the list before I'd have guessed correctly.

Some sources claim that it was awarded three unit sales for every triple album sold, which is why it sold more than Band On The Run. But I think it would still be in the top 3, the other being the Imagine LP. All Things Must Pass presumably sold more than Imagine when Lennon was alive because Lennon has I believe sold more solo records posthumously than he did in the 70s (when he was usually too leftfield for big sales).

[Gangster Octopus]

At least of those three, Band On The Run was/is listenable...

[Satchmo Distel]

All Things Must Pass has a high critical reputation but I have no idea who was buying it unless it really was just off the back of My Sweet Lord, itself of course a plagiarized melody.

I own no solo Beatles studio albums, I should stress. I like Ram the best, of those I have heard online.

[Fussbudget]

Not actually something I learned today, but last week; the biggest selling LP by a solo Beatle is All Things Must Pass by George Harrison. I found that both interesting and, frankly, astonishing. For those unfamiliar with it, ATMP is a triple album from 1970, so not only perhaps an unexpected choice, coming from 'one of the other two', but also an expensive purchase compared to single albums. I'd have gone some way down the list before I'd have guessed correctly.

I'm assuming you don't spend a lot of time in charity shops or second-hand record shops or you'd have guessed it from the sheer number of copies of it kicking about

[Fussbudget]

I own no solo Beatles studio albums, I should stress. I like Ram the best, of those I have heard online.

Best solo Beatles album is McCartney II and I'll fight anyone who argues different

[ursus arctos]

I'm assuming you don't spend a lot of time in charity shops or second-hand record shops or you'd have guessed it from the sheer number of copies of it kicking about

See also USian student accomodations through the mid 80s or so

[caja-dglh]

I'm assuming you don't spend a lot of time in charity shops or second-hand record shops or you'd have guessed it from the sheer number of copies of it kicking about

I was thinking about a No Parlez joke but that went triple platinum.

[Janik]

This must have come up on here before, as it seems a very OTF bit of trivia: only learnt today that WD-40 stands for Water Displacement version 40, which is very literal for an aerosol oil brand name. And also what I’ve always mis-called Duck Oil is actually Duct Oil.

I’m sure that has been mentioned on here before, yes. Along with the detail that version 40, along with the 39 less successful ones that preceded it, was developed for the US missile program(me). Oh and WD-40 is still made by the WD-40 Corporation (not their original name...) rather than having become just one more brand owned by one of the handful of big consumer products omnicorps (Reckitt Benckiser, SC Johnson, Unilever et al).

[San Bernardhinault]

As usual I feel obliged to point out that the WD-40 company is based in San Diego (and was originally called the Rocket Chemical Company)

[caja-dglh]

The better WD-40 in New York closed quite a while ago.

[San Bernardhinault]

The better WD-40 in New York closed quite a while ago.

Surely WD-50?

I went there once. I was very sad when I discovered (also quite a while ago) that it was shut.

[caja-dglh]

Surely WD-50?

I went there once. I was very sad when I discovered (also quite a while ago) that it was shut.

Argh, right it was 50. I walked past it way too often.

[Hot Pepsi]

Yup. And what everyone casually calls 'duck tape' is actually duct tape....tape to seal the joints in duct work so all the air doesn't leak out at every connection point.

That might not be true.

A) Duct tape is shit for ducts. It dries out and fails. You need that metallic stuff. I think it’s made of aluminum.

B) It isn’t called duck tape just because of the brand. Duck is also a kind of canvas and the original version was a sort of laminated canvas with glue on one side.

It was originally invented to seal ammo boxes.

[San Bernardhinault]

TIL that there’s something called cotton duck/duck cloth.

TI also L that I’ve been wrongly judgemental all these years about people who said duck tape, and about the brand Duck Tape. Now I feel like an arse, retroactively.

[caja-dglh]

TI also L that I’ve been wrongly judgemental all these years about people who said duck tape, and about the brand Duck Tape. Now I feel like an arse, retroactively.

Nah - it is a brand created because people are idiots. Like playing dice and it paying off with a brand name. They don't want "duck tape".

[caja-dglh]

All four members of KISS released a solo album on the same day, and guitarist (and not very good singer) Ace Frehley's outsold everyone else's by a healthy margin.

Cos he was back in the New York Groove. The only real good tune off any of them.

[Sporting]

This must have come up on here before, as it seems a very OTF bit of trivia: only learnt today that WD-40 stands for Water Displacement version 40,

At least twice:

https://www.onetouchfootball.com/for...e5#post2493035

https://www.onetouchfootball.com/for...01#post1568889

[Hot Pepsi]

Nah - it is a brand created because people are idiots. Like playing dice and it paying off with a brand name. They don't want "duck tape".

But if you say it at normal speed. “Duct tape” and “duck tape” sound the same.

I also think “duck” actually makes more sense because it is waterproof. And, as I said, unsuitable for ducts.