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I don't know much trivia, so I will contribute this snippet here: the bass player on Cat Stevens' Matthew and Sons track is John Paul Jones - of Led Zep fame ...
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Originally posted by Rahenyrhythm Rahenyrhythm wrote:

I was just looking at the RTE news app, in the Culture thread there is a piece about an upcoming exhibition/discussion with a guy who creates custom sound systems/PAs for eg Body and Soul, Electric Picnic, etc. He also seems to be an expert on vinyl record systems - hi-fi etc - and there will be a few big vinyl collectors there, who can chat to and check out what's in their collections ... You might be interested in that VJ?

(I wasn't able to cut and paste the actual article in here, but can check it out as above)




https://www.rte.ie/culture/2018/0711/978016-handcrafting-the-perfect-sound-system/





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The Netherlands was the first country to broadcast the programme "Big Brother".


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Gunpowder originated in China.
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What's brown, smells funny  and sits on a piano stool?

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The Pollex is the scientific name for the thumb.

Now a word that rhymes with that is not scientifically mentioned as describing a male organ
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The Brits started football although a version was played in China earlier.

Football was so called not because it was played with feet to ball but rather that is was not played on horseback.
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"Fat Man" and "Little Boy" were nicknames of atomic bombs dropped by America over Japan in 1945.
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Yep - Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in that order if I Remember correctly ...
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BMW stands for Bavarian Motor Works.

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The Big Dipper has seven stars and is commonly known as The Plough.
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Leonardo Da Vinci was apparently the first person to draw the shape of a helicopter.
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Canada has the longest coastline in the world.

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...and from one side to the other, Canada spans seven time zones !
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