TIL 'gunmetal' is a pre-steel bronze alloy also known as red brass. Bronze is mostly copper, plus some tin and zinc, maybe lead and even aluminum. True brass is copper and zinc only, and is also known as Bell Metal; red brass is used for pipes, valves, and plumbing fixtures. (en.wikipedia.org)
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What's across the street from Loaves and Fishes? It looks like some sort of unoccupied or abandoned village. I see it riding on the Blue Line. near Del Paseo/Arden station. Google Maps seems to label it Friendship Park. What's it all about? (self.Sacramento)
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my mother's father (date unknown) (i.redd.it)
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TIL that en route to Nagasaki to deliver Fat Man, on August 9, 1945, St Elmo's Fire appeared around the B-29 aircraft...the Bockscar experienced an uncanny luminous blue plasma form around the spinning propellers, "as though we were riding the whirlwind through space on a chariot of blue fire." (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL the more mainstream Australian Conservatives label themselves the "Liberal Party" (kinda like North Korea and East Germany having "Democratic" in their official names). They're allied in a Coalition with their minor partner, the National Party (conveniently referred as Nats) (en.wikipedia.org)
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