I never knew that!

[Mr Quatro]

I never knew this: http://www.radiationworks.com/sl1reactor.htm

"3 January 1961: A reactor explosion (attributed by a Nuclear Regulatory Commission source to sabotage) at the National Reactor Testing Station in Idaho Falls, Idaho, killed one navy technician and two army technicians, and released radioactivity "largely confined" (words of John A. McCone, Director of the Atomic Energy Commission) to the reactor building. The three men were killed as they moved fuel rods in a "routine" preparation for the reactor start-up. One technician was blown to the ceiling of the containment dome and impaled on a control rod. His body remained there until it was taken down six days later. The men were so heavily exposed to radiation that their hands had to be buried separately with other radioactive waste, and their bodies were interred in lead coffins.

[Aktungbby]

The catacombs of Paris hold over 6 million remains; one of them is Louis XXVI (yeah that one) truly 'a man of the people' in repose!In 2004, police discovered a fully equipped movie theater in one of the caverns. It was equipped with a giant cinema screen, seats for the audience, projection equipment, film reels of recent thrillers andfilm noir classics, a fully stocked bar, and a complete restaurant with tables and chairs. The source of its electrical power and the identity of those responsible remain unknown.

[Jimbuna]

In 1939, Hitler's nephew wrote an article called "Why I Hate My Uncle." He came to the U.S., served in the Navy, and settled on Long Island.

[Eichhörnchen]

"Meh!"

[Moonlight]

When a male bee climaxes, their testicles explode then they die.

[Eichhörnchen]

Come off it... exploding plums? You made that up

[Jimbuna]

In the 1970s, Mattel sold a doll called "Growing Up Skipper." Her breasts grew when her arm was turned.

[Moonlight]

Originally Posted by Eichhörnchen

Come off it... exploding plums? You made that up

Just for you Mr Squirrel.
http://www.veterinaryhub.com/male-ho...es-during-sex/

[Gray Lensman]

Originally Posted by Mr Quatro

I never knew this: http://www.radiationworks.com/sl1reactor.htm

Yes, It was part of Naval Nuclear Power School Training back in the '70s.

The accident was a result of too rapid a change of reactivity when the control rod came unstuck from being "yanked" loose, instantly causing it (the shutdown reactor) to go supercritical, and I emphasize "instantly". Hence the reason for the training was to emphasize NOT to withdraw control rods too fast.

If I'm not mistaken, it's the only nuclear accident (to date) in the U.S. that directly resulted in deaths.

[McBeck]

Originally Posted by Gray Lensman

Yes, It was part of Naval Nuclear Power School Training back in the '70s.

The accident was a result of too rapid a change of reactivity when the control rod came unstuck from being "yanked" loose, instantly causing it (the shutdown reactor) to go supercritical, and I emphasize "instantly". Hence the reason for the training was to emphasize NOT to withdraw control rods too fast.

If I'm not mistaken, it's the only nuclear accident (to date) in the U.S. that directly resulted in deaths.

Yes, its a little known fact. Most people remember Three Mile Island.
However, during the Manhatten project, a few people died due to a core and cover of fisile material accidential getting too close during an experiment.
They used a screwdriver to keep them appart and it slipped. (Thats how I remember it and may very well be mistaken). One quickly pushed the materials appart, but depending on how close you were, you got a certain dose. I think they called it "tickling the dragons tail"...

I think its this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Slotin

[Jimbuna]

Bear Bryant was once asked to contribute $10 to help pay for a sportswriter's funeral. According to legend, he said, "Here's a twenty, bury two."

[Eichhörnchen]

The Tuberous Bush Cricket has plums which make up a whopping 14 per cent of its body mass:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/release...1109191752.htm

How it manages to hop from one plant to another with these monstrous manjigglies hanging down, I just can't think. If Reece's love spuds were this big, he'd have to stuff them in the panniers when he rode his motorbike

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by McBeck

Yes, its a little known fact. Most people remember Three Mile Island.
However, during the Manhatten project, a few people died due to a core and cover of fisile material accidential getting too close during an experiment.
They used a screwdriver to keep them appart and it slipped. (Thats how I remember it and may very well be mistaken). One quickly pushed the materials appart, but depending on how close you were, you got a certain dose. I think they called it "tickling the dragons tail"...

I think its this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Slotin

^Nope. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Daghlian Slotin was not the first in the incident involving the seven men in the room, in 1946, in the 'tickling the dragons tail'. The first fatality was Haroutune Krikor "Harry" Daghlian Jr. who accidentally irradiated himself fatally on August 21,1945 from the same fissile pile, "During an experiment on August 21, 1945, Daghlian was attempting to build a neutron reflector manually by stacking a set of 4.4-kilogram (9.7 lb) tungsten carbide bricks in an incremental fashion around a plutonium core. The purpose of the neutron reflector was to reduce the mass required for the plutonium core to attain criticality. He was moving the final brick over the assembly, but neutron counters alerted Daghlian to the fact that the addition of that brick would render the system supercritical. As he withdrew his hand, he inadvertently dropped the brick onto the center of the assembly. Since the assembly was nearly in the critical state, the accidental addition of that brick caused the reaction to go immediately into the prompt supercritical region of neutronic behavior. This resulted in a criticality accident. Daghlian reacted immediately after dropping the brick and attempted to knock the brick off the assembly without success. He was forced to disassemble part of the tungsten-carbide pile in order to halt the reaction." He died 25 days later: This core, subsequently nicknamed the "demon core": was later involved in the death of physicist, Louis Slotin. He died nine days after saving the others in the room...not the way to go in either case...The courage of the two physicists in preventing greater damage at their own lives' cost is remarkable.

[Jimbuna]

Kool-Aid was originally marketed as "Fruit Smack."

[McBeck]

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

^Nope. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Daghlian Slotin was not the first in the incident involving the seven men in the room, in 1946, in the 'tickling the dragons tail'. The first fatality was Haroutune Krikor "Harry" Daghlian Jr. who accidentally irradiated himself fatally on August 21,1945 from the same fissile pile, "During an experiment on August 21, 1945, Daghlian was attempting to build a neutron reflector manually by stacking a set of 4.4-kilogram (9.7 lb) tungsten carbide bricks in an incremental fashion around a plutonium core. The purpose of the neutron reflector was to reduce the mass required for the plutonium core to attain criticality. He was moving the final brick over the assembly, but neutron counters alerted Daghlian to the fact that the addition of that brick would render the system supercritical. As he withdrew his hand, he inadvertently dropped the brick onto the center of the assembly. Since the assembly was nearly in the critical state, the accidental addition of that brick caused the reaction to go immediately into the prompt supercritical region of neutronic behavior. This resulted in a criticality accident. Daghlian reacted immediately after dropping the brick and attempted to knock the brick off the assembly without success. He was forced to disassemble part of the tungsten-carbide pile in order to halt the reaction." He died 25 days later: This core, subsequently nicknamed the "demon core": was later involved in the death of physicist, Louis Slotin. He died nine days after saving the others in the room...not the way to go in either case...The courage of the two physicists in preventing greater damage at their own lives' cost is remarkable.

I read that too, but misread the part about when he died. I read years when it in fact states days