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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #870 on: January 11, 2009, 04:46:49 PM »
Every Dolby cinema sound processor there ever was has the same flaw: you can't have the sound off for *both* projectors in a two-projector setup at the same time, unless you switch to a non-sync format. One projector will always be on. In later models they added a Mute function but they've never fixed that basic flaw.

That's why some of us construct a changeover circuit that allows it when installing Dolby processors.
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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #871 on: January 13, 2009, 02:50:03 AM »
The social democrats and the communists used to carry revolvers in Sweden in the 1920s, which is one of the reasons that Sweden got its first gun law. Hard to imagine today.
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« Reply #872 on: January 14, 2009, 09:01:05 PM »

Symmetrical symbiosis escapism!!

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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #873 on: January 15, 2009, 01:09:54 AM »
I like that sort of thing too.  :thumbup:
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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #874 on: January 15, 2009, 03:02:58 AM »
In France and Germany they sell sugar, coffee etc in "pounds". A French or German "pound", however, is not 454 grams, like an English or American pound, or 425 grams, like an old Swedish pound, but exactly ½ kilo.
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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #875 on: January 17, 2009, 10:37:43 AM »
I just shot 3 tiger rockets just for the lulz.  :smarty:
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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #876 on: January 17, 2009, 10:51:24 AM »
This is a sentence.
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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #877 on: January 17, 2009, 12:17:40 PM »
This not
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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #878 on: January 17, 2009, 06:07:17 PM »
The border between (Swedish) Finland and Russia in 1721 and Finland and Russia today both start immediately east of the church of Vederlax/Virolahti.
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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #879 on: January 17, 2009, 09:16:50 PM »
Rosslyn Chapel is currently covered by a steel exterior roof to protect the stone from rain.
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« Reply #880 on: January 18, 2009, 12:24:36 AM »
In spite of his outstanding body of work Dr Seuss ( Theodor Geisel ) never won the Caldecott Medal or the Newberry.
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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #881 on: January 20, 2009, 07:36:03 AM »
The borders of Savolax are usually drawn wrong on Finnish maps but correctly on Swedish. Here I have taken the map of historical Finnish provinces from Wikipedia and corrected them. Savolax is yellow, Karelia is dark green. The little lonely dark green dot is the parish of Nuijamaa.

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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #882 on: January 20, 2009, 11:05:42 AM »
The Xenon bulbs we use lose their warranty after only 200 hours of service.
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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #883 on: January 20, 2009, 11:08:51 AM »
In the early nuclear weapons they used a mix of 70% TNT and 30% barium nitrate to push the radioactive components together and start the nuclear process. Barium was used due to its high density.
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Re: Post a useless fact
« Reply #884 on: January 20, 2009, 06:02:58 PM »
My eyes sometimes go green. :S
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