Re: Breaking learning thread

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[Nightjar]

4 of the top 5 biggest selling LPs in France are by AC/DC.

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Chess Records, as in Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf et al. also released an album by Bob Hope.

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I can neither confirm nor deny that that claim is true.

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[Guest]

Shellac recorded a Peel Session after John Peel had died.

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Medieval people weren't dirty: https://going-medieval.com/2019/08/02/i-assure-you-medieval-people-bathed/

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Is this true?

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I'm going to try sucking electricity out of my wall socket, with my mouth.

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You can replace your laptop's DVD player with a 2nd hard drive.

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Homunculus is a real word!

[Guest]

There's an area in Glasgow called Crossmyloof.



It's next to an area called Strathbungo. Strath meaning valley around a river, as in Strathclyde. There is no river Bungo.

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Drew Barrymore wasn't in Poltergeist.

But, surely that's her most famous role?

[Nightjar]

Heather O'Rourke innit.

Poor little thing.

[Butterfield]

Tom Holland, of recent Spiderman fame, who I've literally only just heard of but is apparently now well known....





....is the son of comedian Dominic Holland, who I remember being on TV comedy panel shows a fair bit in the late 90s/early2000s(?).





If I saw them together in the same photo I'd think they were "unlikely celebrities pictured together".

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The theme tune to A Fistful of Dollars was actually a cover of Woody Guthrie's Pastures of Plenty.

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...which clearly owes far more to Ghost Riders in the Sky than it does to Pastures of Plenty.

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Anna Calvi did the music for Peaky Blinders, or Binders,


I might to check that one.

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That 'I'ma let you finish' thing was 10 years ago, 10 years...




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