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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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bnt

The Cape Colony in South Africa was founded, in 1651, by a Dutch administrator named Jan van Riebeeck. A pretty important person in the history of the country, so they naturally put his picture on the money:

Problem was ... the picture was of someone else, another Dutch guy named Bartholomeus Vermuyden. Oops ...

Corkgirl18

There are more atoms in a cup of water than there are cups of water in the world's oceans.

Satriale

Senecio wrote: »

While your first statement is true, unfortunately the second is not. The nozzle side does not indicate the fuel filler cap side.

Apologies, I shouldnt believe everything Donald Trump tells me...

gitzy16v

learn_more wrote: »

There was no Noah, much less an ark.

Damn,foiled again.

learn_more

gitzy16v wrote: »

Noah actually had 3 of each animal on the ark

There was no Noah, much less an ark.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Tin Foil Hat wrote: »

You can open a box of photocopying paper by flipping over the strapping and peeling back the loose end.

fineso.mom wrote: »

Same with briquettes.

That's not a 'you can', it's a you're supposed to.

Wibbs

take everything wrote: »

The colour green does not exist in parts of China.

Funny enough the colour blue doesn't feature in the New or Old Testament of the bible, or ancient Greek writings and old Japanese texts use the same colour for green and blue. The only ancient civilisation who had a word for "blue" were the Egyptians, probably because they made a small fortune in exporting a dye of that colour. The Greeks described both the ocean and sheep as the colour of wine, honey from bees as green and reported the rainbow as only possessing three or four colours. Slightly more recently before the words pink and orange came along such colours were bundled under "red", hence the robin red breast, who would be the robin orange breast if discovered today.

Senecio

Satriale wrote: »

Most cars have an arrow on the instrument cluster that tell you what side the fuel filler cap is on, (the few that dont use the nozzle on the image of the pump to indicate the correct side.)

While your first statement is true, unfortunately the second is not. The nozzle side does not indicate the fuel filler cap side.

take everything

The colour green does not exist in parts of China. Scientists believe this to be related to the huge smog problem there.

Dwarves are illegal in South America.

Bears can vote in Alaska. Most don't however.

The letter p was dropped from the alphabet in 1903. An abysmal failure of metrification, it was quickly reinstated after the great secretary revolt later that year.

StupidLikeAFox

prinzeugen wrote: »

Why is this a good idea? Hotmail/Outlook are at this crap as well. The postman does not open and read my mail or make a decision about "what's important" before he sticks it through the letterbox so why the flying feck should google or hotmail??

I think he is talking about the feature whereby if your email address is prinz@gmail.com then you can put a +whatever in there and it will still end up I your inbox.

Prinz+1@gmail.com
Prinz+boobies@gmail.com
Prinz+gmail@gmail.com

...will all end up at the same inbox. Very handy if you want to sign up to something multiple times but still have the same inbox

Satriale

Most cars have an arrow on the instrument cluster that tell you what side the fuel filler cap is on, (the few that dont use the nozzle on the image of the pump to indicate the correct side.)

Sideshow Cecil

gitzy16v wrote: »

Noah actually had 3 of each animal on the ark

Danny is that you?

L1011

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

One of the Luas lines used an existing rail route.

We could be here all day

And will use another when the extension finishes. The other uses an old canal for a bit.

fineso.mom

Tin Foil Hat wrote: »

You can open a box of photocopying paper by flipping over the strapping and peeling back the loose end.

Same with briquettes.

Tin Foil Hat

You can open a box of photocopying paper by flipping over the strapping and peeling back the loose end.

Capt'n Midnight

Deedsie wrote: »

Ya, practicalities of a pre existing system. Would be too expensive to change and goodness knows any investment in our rail network has more important priorities. Luckily the public don't have to deal with those measurements, rail operators and engineers.

Still a ridiculous system.

One of the Luas lines used an existing rail route.

We could be here all day

xabi

jimbobaloobob wrote: »

You cant leave me feeling that thick tell me more!

They are Legumes

Tin Foil Hat

Masala wrote: »

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

* puts all donkeys on the watchlist *

gitzy16v

Noah actually had 3 of each animal on the ark

jimbobaloobob

xabi wrote: »

Peanuts aren't nuts.

You cant leave me feeling that thick tell me more!

xabi

Peanuts aren't nuts.

endacl

Anders Shy Aircraft wrote: »

Apples have more genes than a Human.

This could go on for years.......

Bollox. I have six pairs. I've never even seen an apple wearing trousers.

Satriale

All modern Polar bears are descended, on their mothers side, from the Irish Brown Bear.

prinzeugen

Senna wrote: »

Finally, put a + sign anywhere in your Gmail address when you sign up to mailing lists, you will still receive the mail, but Google will organise them. Good way to direct stuff you might not want (or definitely don't want to miss)

Why is this a good idea? Hotmail/Outlook are at this crap as well. The postman does not open and read my mail or make a decision about "what's important" before he sticks it through the letterbox so why the flying feck should google or hotmail??

Senna

Gmail was orginally "Garfield Mail" (the cat) and owned by Jim Davis, Google bought the name afterwards.
In Germany you couldn't have a "Gmail" account, it had to be called "GoogleMail" as there was already a company called Gmail who provided the service of recieveing your emails, printing them out and posting them to you, surprise surprise, that company sold the name when their own company tanked.

Finally, put a + sign anywhere in your Gmail address when you sign up to mailing lists, you will still receive the mail, but Google will organise them. Good way to direct stuff you might not want (or definitely don't want to miss)

Cortina_MK_IV

Cortina_MK_IV wrote: »

Sylvester Stallone got the part of Rocky by accident.

Tilikum wrote: »

He wrote it & wanted to play it himself

Exactly... Leading up to the mistake.

jimbobaloobob

You didnt know that i didnt know any of this earlier

Tilikum

Cortina_MK_IV wrote: »

Sylvester Stallone got the part of Rocky by accident.

He wrote it & wanted to play it himself

sharpey85

Cartouche wrote:

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

He also turned down a contract at Manchester United

Tilikum

Cheetahs originated in North America