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I bet you didnt know that

Cartouche

As people here work in various jobs / professions they might know things from work or study no one here knows yet. this is what this topic is about.

what do you know that we have never heard of?

Eg: you don't need to be great at maths to be an architect

this is obvious to me but everyone says to me "i wanted to be an architect but i was bad at math,i can barely add"

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Cartouche

Google's founders were willing to sell to Excite for under $1 million in 1999—but Excite turned them down.

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Sylvester Stallone got the part of Rocky by accident.

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SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

95% of jobs created during the Obama administration were short term contracts or part time jobs

Donald Trump pissed all his profits up the wall.

SEPT 23 1989

95% of jobs created during the Obama administration were short term contracts or part time jobs

learn_more

Picking up in Coppers is not as easy as ppl say it is.

Bone Cancer

The music in the 'You wouldn't steal a car' ad was pirated for use in the ad.

Rumpy Pumpy

Over 600,000 transactions are passed between IT and operational systems every hour to keep the electricity supply and distribution network in Ireland up and running.

jimbobaloobob

Harrison Ford was a stage hand for the Doors.

Lorelli!

Not a lot of people know this but...

maudgonner

jimbobaloobob wrote: »

Al Pacino turned down the role of Han solo because he didnt understand the script

Tom Selleck was meant to do Indiana Jones but he couldn't get out of Magnum PI, so the role went to Harrison Ford.

The role of Dr Alan Grant in Jurassic Park was written for Harrison Ford but wound up going to Sam Neill - I can't watch it now without thinking 'Indiana Jones and the Island of Dinosaurs"!

jimbobaloobob

Al Pacino turned down the role of Han solo because he didnt understand the script

Corkgirl18

The Pringles Man's name is Julius

prinzeugen

Grayson wrote: »

Dublin Bus still use the numbering system from the tram days for some of the routes. 1,3,14,15 & 18 are ones that are basically the same as far as I am aware.

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LexieOnRale wrote: »

You can fix a broken nail using a teabag

You can fix a torn teabag with a nail.

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Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Irish mainline railways have been using 1600 mm since 1843.

Needless to say today the Luas uses 4 feet 8 1⁄2 inches because :rolleyes:

The gauge in Ireland has always been referred to as 5 foot 3 inches. Only recently (as in the UK) has mm been used.

Railwaymen still refer to the space between the rails as the 5 foot.

4 foot 8 and a half inches was used for the Luas as that is the standard gauge for most of the world and the trams and other equipment for the Luas could be "bought off the shelf" rather than having to be specially designed for the Irish 5'3".

silverharp

The very last German troops of the Second World War to call it quits turned themselves in to a band of Norwegian seal hunters on the remote Bear Island in the Barents Sea on Sept. 4, 1945 – nearly four months after VE Day! The small detachment had been sent to the distant Arctic outpost to establish a weather station sometime late in the war. Having lost radio contact with headquarters in May. They gave up without a fight.

jimbobaloobob

Cincincnati has a subway system that was built, never used and then abandoned.

Masala

More people die every year from kicks from donkeys than die in airline crashes

Four Phucs Ache

When your 12 and you touch the wires inside an open Street light your little brother laughs and cries at the same time.

Grayson

Cartouche wrote: »

There was a time when transport by tram around Dublin wasn’t restricted to two bizarrely unconnected routes, when tramlines extended miles in every direction, spreading from O’Connell Street outwards like arteries from a heart to Dublin’s rapidly expanding suburbs.

Three companies operated the trams initially, the Dublin Tramways Company, the North Dublin Street Tramways Company, and Dublin Central Tramways. These companies united in 1880, forming the Dublin United Tramways Company, with 137 trams running routes which totaled over 32 miles. The last horse tram ran in January 1901, by which time Dublin had completely electrified it’s system, now with 66 miles of track, of which nearly 50 were owned by the DUTC.

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mzungu

Dead bodies can get goosebumps.

The woolly mammoth was still knocking about when the pyramids were being built and for a sort time thereafter.

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maudgonner wrote: »

If you read this and find yourself worrying that you might be a psychopath, that means you're almost definitely not a psychopath :pac:

(Psychopaths tend not to worry about stuff like that.)

maudgonner

222233 wrote: »

Around 5% of us have Psychopathic tendencies

Wibbs wrote: »

*twitches*

If you read this and find yourself worrying that you might be a psychopath, that means you're almost definitely not a psychopath :pac:

(Psychopaths tend not to worry about stuff like that.)

Cartouche

Sean Connery turned down the Gandalf role in Lord of the Rings

Wibbs

*twitches*

222233

Around 5% of us have Psychopathic tendencies

retalivity

The 10th US president John Tyler (1841-1845, died 1862) has 2 grandchildren that are still alive.

Wibbs

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Rabbits aren't native here.

Neither are trees like the chestnut, sycamore, beech a couple of pines and the red poppy. Ireland because it was cut off and scoured by the ice for so long originally had far less biodiversity than our neighbour Britain(and a much reduced geology). Because the south of Britain remained ice free and a land bridge connected it to Europe for longer their biodiversity is much higher.

Irish bears were related to Spanish bears, not the ones found in Britain(or most of the rest of Europe).

Irish wolves were larger and more aggressive than mainland European wolves(or indeed British). Wolf attacks on humans were vanishingly rare, except for here. The old annals regularly mention people being attacked and killed by them(and reports of werewolves). This continued quite late too. The English Planters were scared of their reputation and were hell bent on wiping them out. Oliver Cromwell of all people was likely the most responsible for protecting the old Irish Wolfhound, as he encouraged their breeding and banned their export(and there was a small fortune in reward for killing wolves). The last one known was killed in Carlow.

The Irish wolfhound is one of the few wolfhound breeds bred to take on a wolf one on one, hence their huge size. The majority of the other breeds were bred to work as a team in large packs. They were also famed as war dogs across the ancient world and the Romans mentioned them with wonder and fear, including one Gaius Julius Caesar. As an aside oul Julius reckoned that Ireland lay off the coast of Spain. Bless. Luckily they have also long being regarded as having a lovely temperament(even the Roman's noted this) and are big oul softies(to friends). Which is a good thing cos if one went rogue, it would make mincemeat of most other dogs and really ruin your day.

Oddly as well as the big bad wolf and werewolves and all that, the Irish Brehon laws mention them as quite popular pets, along with herons of all things. The latter particularly popular with clerics.

The last Irish round tower was built when the leaning tower of Pisa was going up. The deepest foundations on an Irish round tower are only a couple of feet. Even though the monks were aware of European classical building techniques they're also built on near neolithic building methods, with the addition of mortar. They even made doorways using a lintel stone, but carved the classical arch onto it, even though they knew how to make an arch. Contrary feckers we've always been it seems.

For much of the Roman empire east of a particular point Greek was more spoken than Latin. Romans gave us the notion of courses in meals. The word "salary" comes from Rome too. It roughly translates as "salt", as Roman soldiers were often paid in same. The purple dye used only by the richest of Romans stank to high heaven which added to the status.

That's my stream of consciousness waffle.

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If you could remove all of the empty space from the atoms that make up every human on earth, the entire world population would fit into the size of an apple.

Junkyard Tom

Robert Peel didn't actually invent the potato peeler.