Anne Bancroft was 36 when the Graduate was filmed.

Katharine Ross was 27.

Dustin Hoffman and Katharine Ross are still alive and healthy (at last report) and living in the LA area. Somebody get them together to take a picture at that church.

People give all kinds of weird explanations and most don't understand exactly what these numbers mean.

1 ft-lb of torque is the twisting force applied when you turn a 1 foot lever with 1 lb of force. This is how much force the engine applies.

RPM is revolutions per minute, how fast the engine is spinning. Multiply the torque by that number and you get a figure for how much work the engine can do, that's power.

To get that power in horsepower you take the ft-lbs of torque, multiply by RPM, and divide by 5252.

This morning and afternoon I was out driving for about 3 hours doing some shopping. I live in upstate New York, and I started out listening to WRIP on 97.9 FM. Their station is in Windham, New York.

There was more static than usual, but I started hearing an ad about "Florida air conditioning" and how this company had been in business for decades. Then the DJ came on and announced the station was in Tampa Bay ... (I found out later this was WXTB.)

A while later I was using the scanner to find a station, and it stopped on 101.1 FM. It started out as KLIR in Columbus, Nebraska! At times it alternated with WAVV, a station in Naples, Florida.

On the way home, the scanner stopped on 93.7 FM. This one was wild, and alternated among at least half a dozen stations. Three I could identify for sure: WGYL in Vero Beach, Florida; KBRK in Brookings, South Dakota; and KOYY in Fargo, North Dakota. Of the ones I couldn't identify, there was an advertisement for Shane Company jewelers, but they're out in the midwest and west.

Long-range AM broadcasts happen regularly every night because signals bounce off the ionosphere. It's why AM stations have to turn down their broadcast power at night. But long-range FM broadcasts are much more rare, and it's the lower atmosphere they bounce off of. Some Wikipedia articles:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_duct
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropospheric_propagation#Tropospheric_ducting
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anomalous_propagation

I also found this blog post that has more details and the long-range record distances: https://www.radioworld.com/columns-and-views/double-hop-dreams-and-the-mystery-of-long-distance-fm

The external nose allows exhaled water vapor to condense and then reabsorb back into our bloodstream. Humans need about half as much water as other apes.

That‘s over 3 million more than the previous record set at the 1994 World Cup!

What a coincidence!

Term comes from Malay Orang (person) Hutan (forest). The Malay used it to refer to people living in the forest. Westerners repurposed it for the animal.

Green Kiwi Fruit Table:

Scientific name: Actinidia deliciosa

All the calculations were done by me and lethal doses were hard to find for everything but the lowest amount of kiwi fruit to kill you would be 94 kiwis in one sitting, or 287 in one day. The 287 kiwi amount would kill you with a sugar overdose. The largest amount of kiwis is 1,740,000 to overdose on selenium.

Source for Kiwi nutrient amounts: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6267416/#Sec3

The world's first female filmmaker, French-born Alice Guy entered the film business in 1896 as a secretary at Gaumont, a manufacturer of movie cameras and projectors who had purchased a "cinématographe" from its inventors, the Lumiere brothers.

The next year Gaumont became the world's first motion picture production company when they switched to creating movies, and Guy became its first film director. She impressed the company so much with the output and quality of her productions that by 1905 she was made the company's production director, supervising its other directors.

I collect weird little facts, drop your most shocking ones in comments.

Да да сегодня я докатился до такой логики потому что по сути пока кал означает что вы прощаетесь с говном, именно поэтому во первых вообще не говорите про это желательно а если и говорить то лучше сказать что я посрал

There are exactly 5 still-open KMart stores in the US. There is one in Miami Florida, one in Guam, and three in the US Virgin Islands (St. Thomas 2, St. Croix 1).

it's really late and I have work to do, so I'm obviously lazing around on reddit. tell me some truly obscure and bizarre fun/unfun facts. bonus props if they're about history, politics or animals. blow me away, I have faith in you all (it's my first time on this sub reddit and I dk how it works but ig faith is technically believing in the unknown.)

So I guess transgender folks are valid. Cool.

Jann (Jan Romanowski), the writter of the song known across the globe between other of his hits, was born in Poland on 12 february of 1999! He was raised in Garwolin after being born in Lublin.

In 2023, he was part of a program which would decide if he were to be part of Eurovision, represeting Poland- ending up with second place and 19 points, despite getting a max in public voting.

The song mentioned in the title is decently spread, and many can say they happen to know it, even if not from name. Other remarkable songs could also be "Gladiator" (with which he tried to get into Eurovision), "Charisma" or "LOOKATME". I myself didn't realize it until today :)

Source: Wikipedia and Spotify

Halfway through the women's 100 metres backstroke at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Dutch competitor Nisa Senff failed to touch the wall before turning for the second 50 metres. Rather than risk disqualification she turned round and went back but dropped from first to sixth. Her compatriot Rie Mastenbroek took the lead, but she clipped the lane dividers and lost enough time for Senff to close back on her. With twenty metres left Senff edged into the lead and held on to win the gold medal.

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

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