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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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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.

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.

learn_more

gitzy16v wrote: »

Noah actually had 3 of each animal on the ark

There was no Noah, much less an ark.

gitzy16v

learn_more wrote: »

There was no Noah, much less an ark.

Damn,foiled again.

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...

Corkgirl18

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

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 ...

jimmycrackcorm

learn_more wrote:

There was no Noah, much less an ark.

But I saw the film with Steve Carroll

Stealthfins

Roses,apple trees, blackberries, peaches, strawberries are all in the one plant family Rosaceae

There's thousands of them.

Spanish Eyes

Mayday, Mayday has nothing to do with the Bank Holiday. It is the Anglicisation of the French "M'aidez", help me.

Wibbs

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

Mayday, Mayday has nothing to do with the Bank Holiday. It is the Anglicisation of the French "M'aidez", help me.

SOS didn't mean "Save Our Souls" as it originated with the German navy and apparently came about because it's the easiest/most clear signal when using morse code.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

gitzy16v wrote: »

Noah actually had 3 of each animal on the ark

This is where this type of thread becomes untrustworthy. That is utter nonsense.

Genesis 7 says "Take with you seven of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and two of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate, and also seven of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth."

the beer revolu

xabi wrote: »

They are Legumes

Hence "pea"nut.

BrianG23

Anders Shy Aircraft wrote: »

This is where this type of thread becomes untrustworthy. That is utter nonsense.

Genesis 7 says "Take with you seven of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and two of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate, and also seven of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth."

This!? This is where you draw the line!?

Capt'n Midnight

jimmycrackcorm wrote: »

But I saw the film with Steve Carroll

I saw the Russell Crowe one.

BrianG23

Binary digits 1 and 0 represent a state and/or voltage. Normally 3.3 volts and above(up to 5) is a 1 and below it is a 0.

We can represent different patterns by sending different voltages in sequence different points. You can also represent 16 numbers with 4 'bits'.

8421
____
0000 = 0
0001 = 1
0010 = 2
0100 = 4
1000 = 8
1111 = 1+2+4+8 = 15

This is called digital logic and its how we make sense of electricity!

purplecow1977

I love the diversity of these types of threads. I dislike when random untrue comments are made. It defeats the purpose. Plus I'm more likely to remember the untrue ones, because that's just my luck!

Cartouche

The word Marmalade comes from Mary, Queen of Scots

When the queen was ill; the servants would bring her an orange preserve they made that seemed to help with her ailment. They would say “Marie est malade,” this was changed to Mariemalade, and later just pronounced Marmalade

[Deleted User]

Post traumatic stress disorder changes the structure of the brain. The amygdala may grow in size. The smallest of things appear threatening. The hippocampus may shrink. Short term memory is converted to long term memory.
The blood flow in the pre-frontal cortex changes. There may be less blood flowing to the left resulting in less ability for language and memory. Blood flow to the right may increase causing more feelings of sorrow and anger.

Psychopaths are born. Sociopaths are made.

CINCLANTFLT

BrianG23 wrote: »

Binary digits 1 and 0 represent a state and/or voltage. Normally 3.3 volts and above(up to 5) is a 1 and below it is a 0.

We can represent different patterns by sending different voltages in sequence different points. You can also represent 16 numbers with 4 'bits'.

8421
____
0000 = 0
0001 = 1
0010 = 2
0100 = 4
1000 = 8
1111 = 1+2+4+8 = 15

This is called digital logic and its how we make sense of electricity!

There are 10 types of people in the world... those who understand binary and those who don't!

stimpson

The reason that divers dive backwards off a boat is because if they dive forwards then they would end up in the boat.

Malari

Blue tits are lactose intolerant, despite learning to peck the foil lids open on milk bottles, back in the days of glass milk bottle delivery. What they actually want to get at is the cream, which is free of lactose and high in fat. Smart.

SeanPuddin_

Tutankhamun is closer to the creation of the iPhone than the first Eygptian pyramids

Means Of Escape

SeanPuddin_ wrote: »

Tutankhamun is closer to the creation of the iPhone than the first Eygptian pyramids

And that he was killed by being crushed by a chariot .

Wibbs

SeanPuddin_ wrote: »

Tutankhamun is closer to the creation of the iPhone than the first Eygptian pyramids

And Newgrange passage tomb was nearly 1000 years old when the Great Pyramid was constructed.

Means Of Escape wrote: »

And that he was killed by being crushed by a chariot .

It was also a very hasty burial. His embalming was rushed and not very high quality. His tomb wasn't his and the workers had to chip away a corner of a wall and the feet of his sarcophagus to squeeze him in. His famous death mask wasn't meant for him either. It was originally meant for a woman. The ears are pierced which wasn't the fashion for men and the holes were clumsily patched up. It had been robbed quite soon after he was buried, but sealed up again. Periodic floods that affect that area buried the entrance soon after and he was forgotten, a tiny footnote in history. Yet this forgetting meant his tomb weathered the millennia since almost intact and today he's probably the most well known Pharaoh of all.

Cartouche

SeanPuddin_ wrote: »

Tutankhamun is closer to the creation of the iPhone than the first Eygptian pyramids

Now thats amazing !

Wibbs

Cartouche wrote: »

Now thats amazing !

considering your username I'm surprised it surprises you.

eoins23456

Deedsie wrote: »

Ireland is a metric country since the 1970's. Some people don't seem to realise.

How come it took the miles to kilometres sign change so long to happen I wonder ?

pickarooney

Cartouche wrote: »

The word Marmalade comes from Mary, Queen of Scots

When the queen was ill; the servants would bring her an orange preserve they made that seemed to help with her ailment. They would say “Marie est malade,” this was changed to Mariemalade, and later just pronounced Marmalade

Pure lies. It's from the Portuguese word for quince.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

pickarooney wrote: »

Pure lies. It's from the Portuguese word for quince.

Yet again, proof that there is much that people didn't know they didn't know but thought they knew.