There was an attempt to introduce milk bags in the UK market a few years ago. They had a special jug for them which stabbed the bag with a sharpened proboscis connecting to a lidded spout, solving the resealability problem. (Search for "JUGIT" for images.) I was actually just looking at ours earlier today, sitting…

I just make mine in a plastic container in the fridge. I mean, it's probably both more convenient and slightly safer to buy it, but it's not that hard to make if it's not readily available.

There's The Poppy Girl's Husband (William S. Hart & Lambert Hillyer, 1919), The Warrior's Husband (Walter Lang, 1933), The Hairdresser's Husband (Patrice Leconte, 1990), and 2013 mini-series The Politician's Husband. That's about it, though, according to IMDB.

I am really distracted by the fact that astronaut North in that screenshot up top has her surname translated into Russian rather than just transliterated. That can't be normal policy on the ISS, surely? Did they just run it through Google translate and send it off to the props department?

Heterotroph?

You have it backwards. Here's what Banks actually wrote about the matter, shortly before his death:

I think it might be helpful at this point to discuss exactly what we mean when we speak of "descriptivism" and "prescriptivism". It's natural enough to simply identify them with the actions of description and prescription; describing what language is versus prescribing how it should be. And if this is what we mean by…

[Excerpted from a longer post I ran out of time to finish:] As a scientist, when you find that your object of study is not behaving in accordance with your theory, you conclude that the problem is with the theory. Prescriptivism is like criticizing falling bodies for failing to obey Aristotelian physics.

I always remember Skinner from Ratatouille because I thought he looked like a racist charicature. (Of what race, exactly, I couldn't say. But that's how his character design struck me when I first watched the film.)

Let's not forget Unique Knockers.

I believe there's a different set of flavours, but it's been so long since I had one I can't say for sure (both because my information is out of date and because I can't remember exactly what the flavours were even back then). What I can tell you is that they were called "Opal Fruits" in the UK until the 90s.

"Casualism is the philosophical view that the universe, its creation and development is solely based on randomness."

But so many of your heroes wear tights. Batman, for example. And… Magellan.

From here:
"It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled…

Nobody made ketchup with tomatoes until long after it had left SE Asia. Originally the term referred to a fermented fish sauce, then a family of walnut or mushroom based sauces in Britain.

The word "ketchup" does come from a southern Chinese language, where 鲑汁 referred to a fermented fish sauce (originally from SE Asia). Chinese communities transmitted the word into Malay/Indonesian, where kecap now means "sauce" (e.g. kecap manis, sweet soy sauce). British traders picked up the word, and the sauce, in…

As I understand it, green bell peppers (piiman, from French piment), are in Japan the archetypal vegetable that children don't want to eat. I've heard that the Japanese variety actually are more bitter than the ones we're used to. Even Kaga favours yellow, rather than green peppers. (I had a link here with more…

"That initial skepticism snowballed, as it eventually turned out he had completely normal hearing and didn’t need the cane he publicly used." Presumably those are two separate facts, but I like the idea that Samuragochi convinced everyone he was so deaf he had to walk with a cane.

In fact, Muldaur was in two episodes of the original Star Trek. Different characters. (Plus of course she was Dr Pulaski in the second season of The Next Generation.)

^_~ To be clear, I know the episode was made while the wall was a seemingly immovable fact about the world; I just don't remember if I saw it before or (more likely) after it had come down.