Obscure

Vitamin K as an antidote to rat poison

While speaking with the exterminator today, I picked up a nice bit of trivia: Vitamin K is an antidote to Warfarin — aka “rat poison”.

The exterminator asked if there was dog food left out where the rats could get to it. He explained that dog food contains vitamin K, which would neutralize any rat poison he left out.

The Bomber Complex, Inc. – Restaurant, Catering, and B-17G Restoration Project

In Milwaukie, OR, someone turned a B-17 Bomber into a gas station/restaurant.

From The Register:

“Milwaukie, Oregon – only in America can you beat a B-17 into a gas station.

Shortly after WWII a guy named Art Lacey (he had a British wife) went to Kansas to buy a surplus B-17. His idea was to fly it back to Oregon, jack it up in the air and make a gas station out of it. He paid $15,000 for it. He asked which one was his and they said take whichever you want because there were miles of them. He didn’t know how to fly a 4 engine airplane so he read the manual while he taxied around by himself. They said he couldn’t take off alone so he put a mannequin in the co-pilot’s seat and off he went.

Why Ctrl-v for Paste

In response to “Why use Ctrl-v for Paste, when Ctrl-p would be more obvious”, the answer is, basically, “Blame Apple, and because it falls into a nice line, along with z, x, and c.”

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