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What was the most important food staple and field crop in Europe before the introduction of potatoes?
Various grains - wheat, barley, rye and oats leading the field. Local growing conditions tended to dictate which was the preferred grain, which would generally be made into porridge or bread. Or beer. Wheat was considered the finest grain, but was also the hardest to grow, hence the most expensive, and not widely eaten by commoners.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_cuisine#Cereals (looney_tunes)
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Jun 10 26 by pehinhota
How many muscles do our fingers have?
Here's an interesting experiment that demonstrates that there are no muscles in our fingers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6_khJUIvmE
However, Stephen Fry is wrong to say that the middle and ring fingers have a shared tendon. In fact, their individual extensor tendons are physically tied together by an anatomical bridge. This connection is why you cannot lift your ring finger if your middle finger is bent flat on the table, as shown in the video. (wellenbrecher)
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Jun 10 26 by serpa
How many muscles do our fingers have?
Contrary to popular belief, your fingers contain absolutely no muscles. Instead, your digits function like a sophisticated puppet system, operated by extrinsic muscles located in your forearm and intrinsic muscles within your palm.
https://www.scienceabc.com/humans/hand-fingers-no-muscles-phalanges-bones-tendons
(pehinhota)
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Jun 10 26 by serpa
In which country was a cordless telephone developed within nineteen months (in 1979) that was suitable for establishing a wireless voice telephony network to serve remote villages in the Mexican state of Guerrero?
The first mobile phone network was developed in the former East Germany. [quote]Blaumeise 3 was the internal designation for the first mobile phone in East Germany .It was developed in 1979 at VEB Funkwerk Köpenick in Berlin, a subsidiary of VEB Kombinat Nachrichtenelektronik . The reason for its development was a contract to build a radio network for voice telephony in Mexico to serve remote villages in the Mexican state of Guerrero . It consisted of permanently installed telephones connected to the existing landline network via a radio network. The device transmitted on the URTES network (UHF radio-telephony system) and was equipped with a conventional pulse dial . Its formal designation was UDS 721 U. It weighed 10 kg and had a range of over 40 km. The Stasi assigned it the internal code name Blaumeise 3 (Blue Tit 3 ).[/quote] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaumeise_3
https://www.volksstimme.de/sachsen-anhalt/regionale-wirtschaft/handys-aus-der-ddr-kamen-in-mexiko-gross-raus-454944
(gtho4)
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Jun 09 26 by pehinhota
In Sweden in 1967 it was known as Dagen H. In Iceland in 1968 it was known as H-dagurinn. What was it?
At least in Sweden, people were highly sceptical and afraid of this historic change. Polls before Dagen H showed that over 80% of the population opposed the switch.
Drivers became exceptionally cautious because everyone was so terrified. This fear actually worked as a safety mechanism. On the day of the changeover, accident rates plummeted and not a single fatal accident was recorded.
Here's a report:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiInZNG2dhk (wellenbrecher)
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How many bricks are estimated to make up the Sphinx in Egypt?
The Great Sphinx in Egypt is not made of individual bricks or stacked stone blocks. Instead, it is a monolithic statue carved directly from a single massive outcrop of natural limestone bedrock on the Giza Plateau.
[quote]The statue was carved from a single piece of limestone, and pigment residue suggests that the entire Great Sphinx was painted. According to some estimates, it would have taken about three years for 100 workers, using stone hammers and copper chisels, to finish the statue.[/quote]
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Great-Sphinx (wellenbrecher)
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May 29 26 by odo5435
In Test cricket, how many batsmen have been dismissed for a duck on the first ball of the opening day?
More than you might think and dating back to the 1894/95 season in Australia.
According to Wikipedia's page titled "Duck (Cricket)" being dismissed off the first ball of an innings is known as either a "Royal Duck" or a "Platinum Duck."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_(cricket)
ESPN Cricinfo has statistics for nearly everything you'd ever want to know about the game of Cricket.
Their list of batsmen "Dismissed by the first ball of a match in Tests" identifies some 35 unfortunate souls (or successful bowlers). The most recent such dismissal was in the 2024/25 season, again in Australia. We can expect this number to grow as the years progress.
https://www.espncricinfo.com/records/dismissed-by-the-first-ball-of-a-match-283164 (psnz)
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May 29 26 by odo5435
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May 29 26 by odo5435
The never-realized film titled "Whispers Like Thunder", a project by Ben Kingsley, was supposed to tell the story of which Native American woman?
"Whispers Like Thunder" was supposed to tell the story of Eliza "Lyda" Burton Conley of the Wyandot Nation. In 1907, she filed a case to prevent the U.S. government from selling and developing the Huron Indian Cemetery in Kansas City, on the grounds that this project violated treaty protections and her family's burial rights.
In 1910, she personally presented the case before the U.S. Supreme Court as the first Native American woman to do so, but the Court ruled against her and upheld the government's authority to proceed. Nevertheless, she gained significant public and political support, and in 1916, Congress ultimately passed legislation to protect the cemetery from sale and development.
https://wikibin.org/articles/whispers-like-thunder.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyda_Conley (wellenbrecher)
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May 28 26 by pehinhota
What book in the King James Bible is most questioned as to its authenticity?
Discussing "authenticity" doesn't mean it's "untrusted" in a religious sense. It's still part of the canonical New Testament in all major Christian traditions. The debate is about authorship, not necessarily its theological value.
[quote]2 Peter is traditionally attributed to Peter the Apostle, but most critical scholars consider the epistle pseudepigraphical (i.e., authored by one or more of Peter's followers, using Peter as a pseudonym)[/quote]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Epistle_of_Peter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorship_of_the_Petrine_epistles (wellenbrecher)
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May 22 26 by GBfan
Why do most conductors of large musical groups need a stick?
The baton (as it is named) is used to enhance the visibility of the most important conducting information - the beat. Conductors use a large variety of gestures to indicate how they wish passages to be played, but the baton is always indicating the beat, ensuring all musicians play on cue and at the same tempo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baton_(conducting) (WesleyCrusher)
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May 27 26 by odo5435
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Which NBA player was the first to get an official quintuple double in a game (10 or more in five different categories)?
Not even a career quintuple double has been achieved so far.
[quote]there is no overlap between the 14 players who have recorded 10+ steals in an NBA game and the 36 players who have recorded 10+ blocks in a game; in other words, no NBA player's career-high stat line is a quintuple-double. The best single-game career high in blocks for a player with a game of 10+ steals is 5 by Draymond Green, and the best single-game career high in steals for a player with a game of 10+ blocks is 8 (Andrei Kirilenko and Hakeem Olajuwon).[/quote]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-double#Quintuple-double (wellenbrecher)
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May 22 26 by GBfan
Who got paid the most to perform at Woodstock in 1969?
Here's a list of 29 artists and their fees:
[quote]1. Jimi Hendrix - $18,000
2. Blood, Sweat and Tears - $15,000
3. Joan Baez - $10,000
4. Creedence Clearwater Revival - $10,000
5. The Band - $7,500
6. Janis Joplin - $7,500
7. Jefferson Airplane - $7,500
8. Sly and the Family Stone - $7,000
9. Canned Heat - $6,500
10. The Who - $6,250
11. Richie Havens - $6,000
12. Arlo Guthrie - $5,000
13. Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young - $5,000
14. Ravi Shankar - $4,500
15. Johnny Winter - $3,750
16. Ten Years After - $3,250
17. Country Joe and the Fish - $2,500
18. Grateful Dead - $2,500
19. The Incredible String Band - $2,250
20. Mountain - $2,000
21. Tim Hardin - $2,000
22. Joe Cocker - $1,375
23. Sweetwater - $1,250
24. John B. Sebastian - $1,000
25. Melanie - $750
26. Santana - $750
27. Sha Na Na - $700
28. Keef Hartley - $500
29. Quill - $375[/quote]
https://crackmagazine.net/2015/03/find-out-how-much-each-band-cost-at-woodstock/
Joe Cocker and Santana earned very little because they were virtually unknown when their contracts were signed in early 1969. In fact, their performances at Woodstock - and their inclusion in the 1970 documentary film - turned them into global superstars overnight. (wellenbrecher)
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Is the Fissure of Rolando in the Carpathian Mountains?
It's not the Roncevaux Pass in the Pyrenees either, and Luigi Rolondo was an early 19th-century Italian neurologist, not an 8th-century Frankish military hero and literary legend.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland (lanfranco)
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May 23 26 by serpa
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May 23 26 by serpa
Is the Fissure of Rolando in the Carpathian Mountains?
The central sulcus (fissure of Rolando) separates the frontal lobe (anterior) from the parietal lobe (posterior).
The location of the central sulcus is made by finding the intersection of the superior frontal sulcus with the precentral sulcus on axial slices near the top.
https://w-radiology.com/central-sulcus/ (pehinhota)
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Which archipelago was the site of a successful campaign against malaria led by the German physician and microbiologist Robert Koch in 1901?
The Brijuni (Brioni) Archipelago in the northern Adriatic Sea (off Istria, today Croatia) was the site of a successful anti-malaria campaign led by Robert Koch around 1900-1902.
At the time, the islands were heavily affected by malaria due to mosquitoes breeding in marshes and ponds, which had made earlier settlement and tourism projects difficult. Koch implemented a practical control strategy: draining or filling standing water where mosquitoes bred and treating infected people with quinine.
The campaign worked, and malaria was effectively eliminated. This allowed industrialist Paul Kupelwieser's planned luxury health resort to develop on the islands.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9242531/ (wellenbrecher)
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May 22 26 by pehinhota
How many bricks are estimated to make up the Sphinx in Egypt?
it took 2,000 blocks to biuld just the body of the sphynx.
10,000 for the paws and 4,000 for the head. all together it was 16,000 blocks of lime stone.
https://www.answers.com/history-ec/How_many_blocks_did_the_sphinx_take#:~:text=it%20took%202%2C000%20blocks%20to%20biuld%20just%20the,together%20it%20was%2016%2C000%20blocks%20of%20lime%20stone. (pehinhota)
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May 22 26 by GBfan
Which Michael Jackson single non-greatest hits album had the longest play time?
Michael Jackson's 1995 album HIStory Continues has a playing time of 77:09. This album was released as the second album of his ninth album release, "HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I", the first album of which contained his greatest hits. In case you are considering this as still being apart of a special release, then the distinction would probably belong to his tenth and final album Invincible which has a playing time of 77:01.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIStory:_Past,_Present_and_Future,_Book_I
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invincible_(Michael_Jackson_album) (TriviaFan22)
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May 22 26 by GBfan
Which NBA player was the first to get an official quintuple double in a game (10 or more in five different categories)?
There has been no officially recorded quintuple-double in the NBA, although Wilt Chamberlain is noted for having unofficially completed a quintuple-double in a game on March 18, 1968. The discrepancy lies in the fact that the NBA didn't record blocks and steals until 1973, according to Under Armour, meaning Chamberlain's achievement is not a matter of the official record books.
https://www.underarmour.com/en-us/t/playbooks/basketball/what-is-a-double-double-in-basketball-and-why-does-it-matter/ (TriviaFan22)
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May 22 26 by GBfan
Who got paid the most to perform at Woodstock in 1969?
Jimi Hendrix was the highest paid performer at Woodstock 1969. [quote]Jimi Hendrix might have had to wait several hours to play his 'headline' set - played well after the witching hour at 8am on the Monday - but the fee no doubt calmed any frustrations. He and the Gypsy Suns and Rainbows walked away with $32,000 ($223,300/£184,100 in 2019's money) for their troubles, nearly three times what The Who were paid.[/quote] https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20190813-50-facts-about-woodstock-at-50-money
(gtho4)
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On March 17, 1945, an SS unit fired eleven V2 rockets from a launch site in the Netherlands — to strike what target?
Wellenbrecher is correct. There were 11 V-2 rockets fired at the Ludendorff Bridge in Remagen (Germany), but all of them missed the bridge. The closest one hit at 270 meters (890 feet) from the bridge and killed 3 American troops. The troops there said that the blast felt like an earthquake.The inaccurate missiles landed as far away as Cologne, 64 kilometers (40 mi) to the north. One struck the town of Oedingen, destroying a number of buildings and killing German citizens and American troops. The Germans tried to bomb the bridge from the air but the Allied forces but up heavy antiaircraft fire everytime the Luftwaffe attacked. About a third of the Luftwaffe aircraft would be shot down as they attacked the bridge.The enemy also tried to hit the bridge with artillery shells and hit it with 2 or 3 shells but the weakened bridge still stood.
After weeks of aircraft bombing, direct artillery hits, near misses, and deliberate demolition attempts, the Ludendorff Bridge finally collapsed on 17 March 1945 at about 3:00 pm. From its capture 10 days before, over 25,000 troops and thousands of vehicles had crossed the bridge and the other two newly built tactical bridges and other temporary bridges. This bridge helped to shorten the war by 2 weeks. Soon the news spread that Hitler had 4 Nazi officers executed because they failed to destroy the bridge before the Allies captured it. (Howardman49)
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