The Every day is a school day thread

The theme tune to Grange Hill was originally the theme tune to Give Us a Clue.

Every atom in your body heavier than Helium* was made in a star. "Stellar Nucleosynthesis" is the reason all of us are here.

*Hydrogen really as you'll only have Helium in your body if you've been sniffing balloons

Every atom in your body heavier than Helium* was made in a star.

Yep. Every time I crank out a vile sulfurous fart, I remind myself that it was forged in a nuclear furnace inside a supernova.

Despite being a sailor (quite majorly in the past) and knowing about 'sweating' a heavy halyard or line, it took until this week that I learned it was the foundation of "don't sweat the little things". Thanks to Leo and the crew at Sampson / Tally Ho.

The "Mystery of the Mary Celeste" is mostly down to sensationalist mis-reporting*. 'Facts' such as half eaten meals and log books left in mid sentence are entirely made up.

The board of salvage pretty much worked out what had happened at the time, although it's never going to be definitively known, (none of the crew survived after all) there's enough circumstantial evidence to come to a pretty robust conclusion.

* who'd have thought it, eh?

I learned a new word today courtesy of a colleague overhearing pupils use it:

Jelqing.

A place to put new, old, interesting or remarkable things that you have just learned.

The meaning behind the phrase ‘dead as a doornail’.

On a similar note (but I'll be honest, not that recent). Balls out - its not rude.

https://www.quora.com/Where-does-the-phrase-going-balls-out-come-from-It-just-sounds-risky#:~:text=Originally%20a%20railroad%20engineering%20term,curves%20or%20in%20populated%20areas.

Today however I learned about the Princes of the Tower. Didn't know that story at all.

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

Bob Holness played the saxophone on Baker Street.

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The theme tune to Grange Hill was originally the theme tune to Give Us a Clue

T'other way round as GH was broadcast first. It was a stock composition.

Bob Holness played the saxophone on Baker Street.

You'll be telling us Joe Cocker's dead next!

Spin - thanks for that...

...I just googled it...  ...wow, who'd have thought that needed a word!

I learnt yesterday that Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth 2 [Gawd bless her] never ever visited Israel during her entire life. Which I found bizarre.

Einstein lived in Michelle Mone's house in Glasgow.

Well according to Michelle anyway...

Hangers on; people who just hang around with someone because of the rewards from doing so.

But in the past if you were to be hanged by the short drop method (before trapdoors and broken necks) rather than strangle for several minutes on the end of a rope you could get your friends or even pay 'hangers-on' to hold onto your legs and pull you to a swift end.