TIL that in Japan in 1980s, you could buy computer parts at cheap prices from shopping arcades and have them made into computers (www.youtube.com)
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This video is really cool. It’s a curator talking about what is on the stone and why. They were supposed to be put in every temple in Egypt and were done so for many years, which is why so many have been discovered since the original famous one.
Can skip to 18:40 in this interview documentary of making the Monty Python movie The Life of Brian...
Some more info in the Wikipedia article. And yes, this is about DC Solar, which I guess many americans will know but as someone from europe this was totally new to me....
Long but good.
Video of people making crazy crystal balls
Apparently he was an advocate for financial austerity, so his name became connected with cheap or discount things. A silhouette was an affordable type of portrait.
He also does a great Redd Foxx impersionation- www.youtube.com/watch?v=490TsUYe5f4
en.wikipedia.org/…/Trinidad_Petroleum_Holdings#Pa…...
Have been on a QI binge lately, so I’ve been learning all sorts of random stuff. Here’s today’s:...
Pretty interesting video …
…and someone shielded the recording electronics of a 360° camera and shoved it through there....
I was reading this article from 1970 and he’s obviously a complicated dude: archive.is/POtvB...
I was listening to Emma Stone on Smartless trying to figure out how to explain who she is and don’t ask me how it lead down this insane path.
And the FBI was assigned to follow the film team on reports of a “vaguely middle-eastern man with a bear in an ice-crem truck”, which has to be the funniest report xD
Seems wild that a now beloved phrase, started as a government slogan to get people to stop throwing trash on the road.
The entire commercial is hilariously weird. I don’t think Heart primarily used coffee to keep themselves going when mixing their album....