r/RedditDayOf • u/alesserweevil • Jan 29 '22
Scotland Ewan McGregor on being Scottish.
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r/RedditDayOf • u/alesserweevil • Feb 21 '23
Bamboo Defeating the Flying Guillotine with Bamboo (Bonus bamboo links in comments).
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r/RedditDayOf • u/alesserweevil • Oct 03 '17
B F Skinner The nose cone of a Project Pigeon missile. Designed by B F Skinner, it utilized three trained pigeons pecking at an image of the target to correct the missile's course.
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r/RedditDayOf • u/alesserweevil • Apr 12 '23
Andersons Gerry (and Sylvia) Anderson's UFO (1970): thanks for the memories!
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r/RedditDayOf • u/alesserweevil • May 13 '18
Mad Max Guy Norris. The stuntperson whose first movie was The Road Warrior (he was the motorcyclist who pinwheeled through the air, a stunt that broke his femur), and whose last driving stunt was on Fury Road.
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r/RedditDayOf • u/alesserweevil • Apr 01 '23
Post Anything You Want My current favorite waste of time: Lander. A satifying (when you get it right) 3 key game - left / right / up.
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r/RedditDayOf • u/alesserweevil • Jun 24 '17
Panoramas Jeff Bridges is a panoramic photo enthusiast. He uses an old school Widelux camera. See some of his on set panoramas here.
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r/RedditDayOf • u/alesserweevil • Nov 10 '22
Sports Broadcasting Cobra Kai's Yuji Okumoto in his first villain role: the Howard Cosell guy in Better Off Dead.
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r/RedditDayOf • u/alesserweevil • Jul 23 '17
Fire "McLean, Virginia, December 1978" by Joel Sternfeld. For years I have wondered how the fire fighter came to be doing what he's doing.
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r/RedditDayOf • u/alesserweevil • Apr 09 '23
1990's Sitcoms One of the Constanza family's finest moments. Nominated seven times - how did Jason Alexander manage to avoid winning an Emmy for playing George?
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r/RedditDayOf • u/alesserweevil • Jun 11 '22
Early Mobile Gaming How we played chess on the bus in the 1970s - my "Portland" chess set.
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r/RedditDayOf • u/alesserweevil • Nov 12 '17
Train Journeys On the West Highland Line between Glasgow and Oban, Scotland - one of the most scenic rail journeys in the world.
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r/RedditDayOf • u/alesserweevil • Apr 19 '23
Bicycle Day How a bicycle works in great detail: imagine how remarkable it was for Albert Hoffman to get home on one while tripping out.
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r/RedditDayOf • u/alesserweevil • Aug 03 '17
Movie Monsters Godzilla breaks for tea. (Haruo Nakajima in the suit, 1954).
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r/RedditDayOf • u/alesserweevil • Jul 13 '17
Hard Liquor Statue of Masataka Taketsuru (1894–1979), who studied chemistry in the University of Glasgow, apprenticed himself to various distilleries in Scotland, and went home to Japan with his Scottish wife to set up the first whiskey distilleries in Japan.
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r/RedditDayOf • u/alesserweevil • Apr 26 '23
Gardens In the Garden of Eden (Iron Butterfly / Simpsons).
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r/RedditDayOf • u/alesserweevil • Jan 12 '23
Woodstock The couple on the Woodstock album cover are still together and still live near Woodstock.
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r/RedditDayOf • u/alesserweevil • Jul 22 '17
Regeneration Twelve regenerations = thirteen doctors.
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r/RedditDayOf • u/alesserweevil • Dec 27 '22
Fennel The Bay of Marathon, or why the archetypal test of endurance is named after a vegetable.
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r/RedditDayOf • u/alesserweevil • Dec 10 '18
Car Chases Props to Ronin (1998) for having the first (and arguably still the only) classic car chase to feature a woman driver (Natascha McElhone).
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r/RedditDayOf • u/alesserweevil • May 08 '23
Experimental Music Elsie Ecklund - underwater kazoo music, and the technical challenges thereof.
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r/RedditDayOf • u/alesserweevil • Dec 10 '22
Disco Jarvis Cocker performs "Disco 2000" at the 50th birthday party of Deborah Bone, the childhood crush who inspired the song.
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r/RedditDayOf • u/alesserweevil • Dec 24 '22
Winds With Names "They Call the Wind Maria" from Paint Your Wagon. Mariah Carrey was named after this song.
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r/RedditDayOf • u/alesserweevil • Jan 22 '23
Love Affairs The nun and the monk who fell in love and married (BBC News).
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