TIL that International Harvester apparently once made appliances:
...and that the '50s were every bit as sexist as we now think they were.
TIL that International Harvester apparently once made appliances:
...and that the '50s were every bit as sexist as we now think they were.
Duke said:TIL that International Harvester apparently once made appliances:
...and that the '50s were every bit as sexist as we now think they were.
My grandparents had a General Motors Frigid - Aire fridge in their garage for years. Probably still there. I think my great aunt also had a Philco-Ford fridge too.
mtn said:Duke said:TIL that International Harvester apparently once made appliances:
...and that the '50s were every bit as sexist as we now think they were.
My grandparents had a General Motors Frigid - Aire fridge in their garage for years. Probably still there. I think my great aunt also had a Philco-Ford fridge too.
On a related subject, my parents have an old Westinghouse refrigerator that my father's parents got when they got married in '48. And when they got it, it was used then, so this thing is from the early- to mid-'40s. It'll sit unplugged and unused for years at a time and then they'll need some overflow capacity and plug it in. It cools almost instantly and will go cold enough to make ice. Impressive piece of engineering. Of course, it weighs two tons and consumes electricity like it's free, but still, quite a machine.
Edit: Looks exactly like this one
Today you learned Kelvinator, the refrigerator company, built more helicopters in WWII than all others combined (including Sikorsky.)
Of course they were quickly nicknamed "Refrigerotors."
TIL that Teddy Roosevelt was the coffe-drinkingest president in history. Apparently, he drank an estimated FORTY CUPS A DAY. How his heart didn't come through his rib cage like a Chestburster from Aliens, we will never know.
In reply to NickD :
It kept his heart working despite his having been shot in the chest just before giving a 90 minute long speech.
In reply to Knurled. :
Old-school pacemaker, eh?
NickD said:TIL that Teddy Roosevelt was the coffe-drinkingest president in history. Apparently, he drank an estimated FORTY CUPS A DAY. How his heart didn't come through his rib cage like a Chestburster from Aliens, we will never know.
Well he only lived to age 60 despite being an active man, so...
(Actual cause of death was a blood clot that traveled to his lungs)
NickD said:TIL that Teddy Roosevelt was the coffe-drinkingest president in history. Apparently, he drank an estimated FORTY CUPS A DAY. How his heart didn't come through his rib cage like a Chestburster from Aliens, we will never know.
Imagine the guy’s breath. I think I just threw up in my mouth.
In reply to barefootskater :
Says the guy who hearts McD breakfast...
40 cups a day???
Lightweight.....
In reply to NickD :
His cousin, meanwhile, made a point of sleeping through relatively unimportant meetings in the early 40s.
In reply to RossD :
Touche.
In reply to Knurled. :
Probably a much smarter move
barefootskater said:NickD said:TIL that Teddy Roosevelt was the coffe-drinkingest president in history. Apparently, he drank an estimated FORTY CUPS A DAY. How his heart didn't come through his rib cage like a Chestburster from Aliens, we will never know.
Imagine the guy’s breath. I think I just threw up in my mouth.
Have you seen pictures of TR? His teeth look like they were carved out of mahogany.
TIL: Don't hold a drive shaft by the u-joint. Ow.
barefootskater said:In reply to RossD :
Touche.
TIL that the Buick Cascada was still in production. I learned this because they just announced it's ending production. And I work at a GM dealer. I recall 2 or 3 years ago, the dispatcher handing me an RO for a Cascada and standing there for a minute or two, staring at the RO, racking my brain as I fervently tried to recall what the berkeley a Cascada was. It always struck me as a pointless car. For more money than a Camaro convertible, you could get a car with a worse chassis, less power, less interior room, styling like an overturned bathtub and the interior stolen from a $20k Buick Verano.
TIL that Franklin D. Roosevelt's family fortune came from his grandfather's opium smuggling operations.
Per the History Channel.
TIL that many of the powerful families in the US are descended from one dude.
SaltyDog said:TIL that Franklin D. Roosevelt's family fortune came from his grandfather's opium smuggling operations.
Per the History Channel.
Would it have been a smuggling, or legitimate importing business? How long has opium been illegal?
In reply to Streetwiseguy :
"Smoking opium" 1909, heroin 1924.
Bayer was still selling heroin as a headache cure in the early 1900s, so unless his grandfather was smuggling it into China during the Opium Wars it was probably legal.
Streetwiseguy said:SaltyDog said:TIL that Franklin D. Roosevelt's family fortune came from his grandfather's opium smuggling operations.
Per the History Channel.
Would it have been a smuggling, or legitimate importing business? How long has opium been illegal?
https://www.theclassroom.com/what-was-the-source-of-the-fdr-family-wealth-12078550.html
"The wealthiest member of the Delano family was Warren Delano, the father of Franklin's mother, Sara. As a young man, Warren Delano apprenticed himself to importing firms in New York and Boston. At the age of twenty-four, he moved to Canton, China. There his amassed a considerable fortune exporting goods from China to the West and importing opium from India to China."
So not necessarily smuggling as per the History Channel, but you know, sensationalism.
TIL, Don't take everything you hear on the History Channel as fact!
Today i learned that harbor freight hole saws meant for wood work really well on aluminium. Who knew?
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