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Jason1969 4 Apr 10:18am, 4 Apr 2025 13,879 posts	Quote Pin Jason1969 Nano Tubes (NT) are usually made of carbon, but a Chinese team decided to make some out of copper (Cu) and called them copper nano tubes.
Velociraptor 4 Apr 10:23am, 4 Apr 2025 74,572 posts	Quote Pin Velociraptor Our previous neighbours across the back kept snakes in their house and garage, including a black mamba, with all the legally required security measures. We had no idea.
Gooner 4 Apr 10:41am, 4 Apr 2025 23,457 posts	Quote Pin Gooner Jason1969 wrote:Nano Tubes (NT) are usually made of carbon, but a Chinese team decided to make some out of copper (Cu) and called them copper nano tubes. 😅
Lesley C 4 Apr 10:50am, 4 Apr 2025 4,414 posts	Quote Pin Lesley C Velociraptor wrote:Our previous neighbours across the back kept snakes in their house and garage, including a black mamba, with all the legally required security measures. We had no idea. Our neighbours across the road had chickens and we didn't know about them until recently. I heard them in the mornings and when we spoke to them they told us. 10 years they had them and we didn't know.
Cheeky’s Dad 4 Apr 3:30pm, 4 Apr 2025 6,547 posts	Quote Pin Cheeky’s Dad That the RAF had banned Tunnocks Tea Cakes from cockpits for my entire lifetime, until now bbc.com
Sweetie 4 Apr 3:33pm, 4 Apr 2025 22,329 posts	Quote Pin Sweetie That's brilliant CD, I had to double check that hadn't been published on 1st April
NDWDave 5 Apr 9:23pm, 5 Apr 2025 20,993 posts	Quote Pin NDWDave The NZ basketball team is known as the Tall Blacks
Raetomic Kitten 5 Apr 9:29pm, 5 Apr 2025 12,626 posts	Quote Pin Raetomic Kitten Have we had the fact that the NZ national badminton team wanted to be the Black Cocks? I feel like that's a very Fetchie sort of fact, I'm not sure where I would have learned it otherwise.
NDWDave 6 Apr 10:43am, 6 Apr 2025 20,996 posts	Quote Pin NDWDave Garmin was founded by two people called Gary and Min
Eynsham Red 6 Apr 1:46pm, 6 Apr 2025 11,898 posts	Quote Pin Eynsham Red NDWDave wrote:Garmin was founded by two people called Gary and Min Originally their company name was PRONAV and we used to fit their early GPS units to light aircraft. I wasn’t impressed when they changed it to GARMIN, even after I learned the reason, as it didn’t sound as “high tech” as PRONAV.