His Quicky Kevin is worth a listen
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The original Michelin Man from 1894.âŁ
The Michelin Man is white because rubber tyres are naturally white. It was not until 1912 that carbon chemicals were mixed into the white tyres, which turned them black. The change was structural, not aesthetic. By adding carbon, tyres became more durable.âŁ
Michelin also began reviewing restaurants so that more people would travel further distances in their cars to eat at these restaurants. This in turn would wear down their tyres faster, and force them to buy more.âŁ
The star system that Michelin uses goes up to three and is broken down by whether or not itâs worth driving to the restaurant.
One star: âA very good restaurant in its categoryâ
Two star: âExcellent cooking, worth a detourâ
Three star: "Exceptional cuisine, worth a special journeyâŚ
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What company manufactures the most tyres in the world?
Lego
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Not sure whether Iâd forgotten this. Rubby scribe Johnnyâs father captained Antrim in an All-Ireland final, and his brother was murdered on the Falls Road. This could go in the journalism thread tbf
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Marilyn is still in Home and Away and Emily Symons is now 54
Probably a Chinese manufacturer. Nankang?
Lego
Itâs a trick question really 
Announced at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival, âThe Property of a Ladyâ was to star Timothy Dalton in his third feature to complete his three-film contract, possibly alongside Elizabeth Hurley, Catherine Zeta-Jones or Lucy Liu and Anthony Hopkins as the villain. Originally supposed to be based on the Ian Fleming short story of the same name, the film was ultimately reworked into âGoldenEyeâ, which starred Pierce Brosnan (the fifth official Bond actor) following expiration of Daltonâs contract.
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On 21st October 1805, during the Napoleonic Wars, a British fleet led by Lord Nelson defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet under Admiral Villeneuve in the Battle of Trafalgar.
A quarter of his men who can be identified were Irish, according to the UKâs National Maritime Museum and the UK National Archives.
They have examined the surviving records for all involved in Nelsonâs fleet as part of a new exhibition in London which analyses the time in the 18th and 19th century when Britannia really did rule the waves.
Nelsonâs fleet consisted of 33 ships and approximately 18,000 men, of whom records survive for about 12,000.
Some 3,573 sailors came from Ireland including:
- 893 from Dublin
- 632 from Cork
- 187 from Waterford
- 154 from Limerick
- 116 from Wexford
- 112 from Antrim
There were 94 Irishmen on the flagship HMS Victory on which Nelson lost his life during the battle.
There were 77 Ryans, 59 Murphys and 32 McCarthys involved.
The archivists were particularly interested in one Irishman, James Spratt, who was born in Mitchelstown, Co Cork, in 1771. He is one of the few survivors of Trafalgar who was photographed when the age of photography began in the 1830s. He had also taken part in another of Nelsonâs victories at the 1801 Battle of Copenhagen.
Spratt was injured in the leg at Trafalgar. He refused to allow it to be amputated, but in the days following the battle the infected wound became infested with large maggots that had to be removed by a surgeon. The limb was saved, but was permanently damaged and ended up three inches shorter than his other leg.
The Battle of Trafalgar, off the coast of Spain, was the decisive naval engagement of the Napoleonic wars and a huge victory for Britain over the combined French and Spanish fleets. It put paid to any hopes Napoleon had of staging a cross-channel invasion of Britain.
The scale of Irish involvement in the Battle of Trafalgar is not a surprise, according to the National Maritime Museumâs curator of naval history Dr Quintin Colville.
"The contribution of the Irish was enormous, not just about people but about provisions including beef, pork and grainâ.
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Cork
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Impressed that this girl didnât go off the rails completely.
The musician Donovan has lived in Ireland for the last 40yrs.
Captain Cook on his voyage to Australia went via Cape Horn rather than Cape of Good Hope
No idea why but I always assumed the good Captain when around South Africa.
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A Dutch explorer was first European to arrive at NZ 127 years earlier, Cook was second but first European to Australia which seems scarcely believable if yer man was in NZ over a century earlier
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They knew it was there alright. They just didnât bother their holes exploring it because it wasnât on any known trading routes at the time.
A place wasnât deemed discovered until itâs navigated and explored.
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Didnât the Dutch lad discover Tasmania too, which is now named after him, but which he named van Diemenâs land after his boss. Odd that he seems to have missed the rest of Australia, especially seeing that he was working from the Dutch East Indies
Edit @habanerocat has this covered
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So i could still discover Leitrim?
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