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The Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina has a triangle on it that is meant to represent the shape of the country (roughly).

The article refers to Magnum ice creams a lot, and makes it easy to infer that it is a British ice cream although it never actually says that. There's one clue in the article: > Th…

As with all design on aircraft, weight is a key part of the specification. A nacelle that could contain all possible failure modes would be too heavy to fly. Losing a fan blade, as…

There are some nuances to it. British Airways (not the original British Airways Ltd [0], who merged to form BOAC) was established to manage several existing airlines that had alrea…

You may be thinking of a different film, as all the cast members listed on wikipedia[0] are stated to have died after 1945. The trivia section of the German wiki page of the same f…

They probably mean Lynetteholmen, which is a giant artificial peninsula to be built on reclaimed land off Copenhagen. Curiously there's no English wiki page for it, but machine tra…

The second route is currently being built in Munich [0], with work started in 2017. I recently watched a youtube video by The B1M about rail projects in Germany that included a lon…

On all the fuel injected engines I have owned there is a physical cable that controls the position of the throttle plate. There is an airflow mass sensor the other side of the plat…

If it takes energy to compress the air in the cylinder - doesn't it also release most of that energy when that compressed air is expanded on the subsequent stroke? If you release t…

Curiously I have the opposite problem with Too Good To Go - they never give me notifications of available things I might be interested in, even though I've set that I want them. Th…

> More people are alive today than have ever lived. Assuming you meant died instead of lived to avoid a potentially nonsensical reading, this is not true. It seems this factoid[0] …

You are absolutely correct about autorotation and helicopters not falling out of the sky. There is one nuance that the rotor blades still need to be able to rotate for this, and a …

Not all boots are made the same though. I had some bad luck with a pair of veldtschoen welted boots from the English firm Crockett and Jones in a custom leather. The commando sole …

Some SLBMs (Submarine Launched Ballistic Missiles) use star sighting to correct their trajectory mid-flight. ICBMs launched from silos know exactly where they're starting from, whe…

An engine failing on an aircraft, especially a light aircraft, is not a guaranteed crash landing. It is a serious situation, however aircraft usually glide well. This means you hav…

When you go around a tight corner and are thrown to one side, what term would you use for the tram's change in motion then? Deceleration is a useful but non-technical term, like ve…

Trolling is a fishing technique [0] of slowly dragging a lure or baited hook from a moving boat, and is likely the meaning that online trolling takes it from rather than a creature…

Boots (a large UK pharmacy chain) sells it, but it's "behind the counter" so you have to ask for it. They will also only sell you one pack of 12 per visit It's the same for codeine…

Two 'weird' places I have visited this year that required an IDP were Japan and Taiwan.

Before the Ballmer/Zune use of the term I remember my father talking about data being squirted to A2A missiles (he was military) prior to launch, so perhaps that is one of the nich…

Interestingly helicopters don't fall out of the sky when they lose power. Air moving over the rotorblades causes lift, as they are after all wings. During normal flight the blades …

> With a roundabout, you only have to look in one direction When being taught how to ride a motorcycle, one of the lessons is a series of extra checks that you're not taught when l…

I'm somewhat confused with the analysis of his predictions of the price of PV panels. Is it saying Smil said (is that meant to be countered with?) PV would cost 0.05 USD/W in 2020?…

One detail here is that 1981 dollars aren't 2023 dollars, so to compare they need to be adjusted. Using [0] $3.5 bn in 1981 would have been worth $11.7 bn in 2023. Another comment …

> Normal glasses are recyclable Is this the case in reality? Everywhere I've lived drinking glasses were not accepted as part of domestic glass recycling due to their composition […