Interesting facts

Trump has Trumped “The Mile High Club”.

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:rofl: All da way 2. >>Der fliegende Holländer

Clive Palmer, billionaire and local idiot, founder of the United Australia Party has launched yet another political party for the current election called, wait for it… “Trumpet of Patriots”

It is expect to do as well as his last campaign which spent millions on electing zero candidates

Talking about inventions (which we weren’t)
I’d like to nominate the humble threaded nut…
Threaded Nut
Anything with a wheel has some, and I owe my working life to this humble piece of engineering genius.
It dates back to before Archimedes, he saw the wisdom in it’s versatility, but it was Joseph Whitworth who standardised the threaded bit and we never looked back.
There are very few mechanical things that do not contain a nut…
It puts a different slant on the expression…“It may contain Nuts”
:nerd_face:
More use than a computer in my opinion.

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The humble nut then had to wait around for a brewer to invent the bolt.

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