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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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Mr Whom

RobertKK wrote: »

While around 10% of Irish people have red hair (ginger) 46% of Irish people carry the red hair genes.
If both parents carry red hair genes, their offspring have a 25% of having red hair.

Poor misfortunate fooks

Cartouche

In the 1730s, a group of printing apprentices massacred “every cat they could find” on Paris’ Rue Saint-Séverin. The cats were subsequently tried (in a mock trial, BUT STILL), found guilty of witchcraft, and hanged.
The popular belief is that the cats were treated better by the masters than the apprentices were. This was an early precursor to the French Revolution

[Deleted User]

Your stomach produces highly corrosive hydrochloric acid (usually referred to as gastric acid) to break down and digest food. To stop your stomach from breaking down and digesting itself, your body produces a brand new stomach lining every three days.

Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire, but the oldest university is Nalanda University in Northern India.

Within two minds about fracking? New research published in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America would suggest that several Californian earthquakes from 1920 and 1933 could be blamed on oil and gas drilling.

stimpson

Robineen wrote: »

In the late 70s and early 80s, Tim Allen of 'Home Improvement' fame served time for drug trafficking after being caught with over a pound of cocaine at a US airport in 1978.

Bill Murray was caught at O'Hare airport while trying to smuggle 10lbs of weed on 20th September 1970, his 20th birthday. He was convicted and got probation.

themagiconion

There was great excitement in scientific communities recently when a giant gas cloud, made up entirely of alcohol, was found in space.

This boozy nebula is about 463 billion kilometers long and would contain enough alcohol to make the equivalent of 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.

[Deleted User]

Cartouche wrote: »

Before he was a famous director, Quentin Tarantino once played an Elvis impersonator on The Golden Girls

https://youtu.be/sT9cCsjIuYU?t=4m30s

A good director would have got him to tone it down a bit.

Spanish Eyes

No you are all wrong, my version is the correct one.

LOL..

Just testing the know alls here.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

A Jeep (the basic version as seen in many a war movie from the past)

Means "Just Enough Essential Parts"

It's a homonym of GP for General Purpose vehicles in WWII.

Squall Leonhart

Spanish Eyes wrote:

A Jeep (the basic version as seen in many a war movie from the past)

Means "Just Enough Essential Parts"

I thought it came from a GP (general purpose) vehicle. The jee-pee sound just got abbreviated.

Spanish Eyes

A Jeep (the basic version as seen in many a war movie from the past)

Means "Just Enough Essential Parts"

Robineen

Cortina_MK_IV wrote: »

He stole Paul Young's guitars. I'd admire him more if he'd got a f**kin' job and kept out of people's houses.

Obviously he was very wrong to do what he did. But my point was, he didn't get away with it. He was jailed and after that, he did get a job! And moving on after doing prison time is not easy.

Cortina_MK_IV

Robineen wrote: »

<snip> But I don't have a problem with his subsequent success or that of Gino D'Acampo, who I mentioned earlier. They paid their debt to society. They did the time and didn't reoffend. You'd have to admire them for moving on so well.

He stole Paul Young's guitars. I'd admire him more if he'd got a f**kin' job and kept out of people's houses.

Robineen

Another one related to my earlier post in the thread. Now, maybe this is common knowledge but when I was told this a few months ago, I was so surprised.

In the late 70s and early 80s, Tim Allen of 'Home Improvement' fame served time for drug trafficking after being caught with over a pound of cocaine at a US airport in 1978. He avoided possible life imprisonment by supplying the names of other dealers.

But I don't have a problem with his subsequent success or that of Gino D'Acampo, who I mentioned earlier. They paid their debt to society. They did the time and didn't reoffend. You'd have to admire them for moving on so well.

GritBiscuit

Most people have never heard of Dr. Eugene Shoemaker - let alone realise that he's the only person to have their ashes scattered on a celestial body other than the earth.

Shoemaker was pivotal in pioneering the field of astrogeology by founding the Astrogeology Research Program of the United States Geological Survey in 1961 at Flagstaff, Arizona. Among other things Shoemaker helped train American astronauts, was prominent in the study of impact craters and discovered several asteroid families during a decade long sky-survey. He never made it to the moon in his lifetime when he was disqualified from the Apollo missions due to being diagnosed with Addison's disease.

His ashes were placed on board the Lunar Prospector spacecraft before it was launched on January 6, 1998. NASA crashed the probe into a crater on the moon in an attempt to learn if there is water on the moon.

Satriale

Dr Turk Turkelton wrote: »

Have a look to see do the carpets match the curtains?

What if its wall to wall lino?

Satriale

You can eat Japanese Knotweed when the shoots are young. It's a bit like chicken rhubarb.

Cartouche

Before he was a famous director, Quentin Tarantino once played an Elvis impersonator on The Golden Girls

Winterlong

Lego make more tyres than any other manufacturer. At 380 million tyres per year they make twice as many as the 2nd biggest manufacturer (Bridgestone)

Dr Turk Turkelton

harry Bailey esq wrote: »

Is there any kind of scientific for checking potential suitors for prevalence of the gene?

Have a look to see do the carpets match the curtains?

BrianG23

I'm stuck with that gene, "ginger'. You can see the ginger beard in alot of irish, brown hair/blond hair and a gingey beard. I just have gingerish hair.

harry Bailey esq

RobertKK wrote: »

While around 10% of Irish people have red hair (ginger) 46% of Irish people carry the red hair genes.
If both parents carry red hair genes, their offspring have a 25% of having red hair.

Is there any kind of scientific for checking potential suitors for prevalence of the gene?

Cartouche

Your body sees alcohol as a poison, or at least as something it doesn't actually want inside it. To fight back, and sober you up, humans produce an enzyme called alcohol dehydrogenase.

That enzyme gets its shot at your alcohol when it attempts to pass through the stomach lining, and when it reaches your liver, primarily. On contact, it snatches a hydrogen atom off the ethanol molecules in your drink, rendering it into non-intoxicating acetaldehyde. Humans can then use aldehyde dehydrogenase as a kind of clean-up crew, breaking down the acetaldehyde that's sometimes considered a cause of hangovers, along with dehydration.

ToddyDoody

30 is the new 20.

Senna

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??

OK I'll explain as you obviously don't understand, it's nothing to do with importance. It basically like a mail rule but instead of filtering by who send it, it's filtered by who are they sending it to, you can control that part by what addresses you use and where. that is very helpful to a lot of people, how anyone calls extra functionality that is at the user's discretion crap, is beyond me.

Capt'n Midnight

CINCLANTFLT wrote: »

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

and those who use ternary.

Spanish Eyes

Cartouche wrote: »

During World War One, letters were the only real form of communication from the soldiers at the front to home
12 million letters were delivered to the front every week
Astonishingly, it only took two days for a letter from Britain to reach the front in France. The journey began at a purpose-built sorting depot in Regent's Park before being shipped to the trenches. By the end of the war, two billion letters and 114 million parcels had had been delivered

Ah the old days were the best. This technology age is rubbish.

Cortina_MK_IV

Cartouche wrote: »

During World War One, letters were the only real form of communication from the soldiers at the front to home
12 million letters were delivered to the front every week
Astonishingly, it only took two days for a letter from Britain to reach the front in France. The journey began at a purpose-built sorting depot in Regent's Park before being shipped to the trenches. By the end of the war, two billion letters and 114 million parcels had had been delivered

Impressive... I posted a card from Castlebellingham, Co. Louth in September 2015 to Dublin and it still hasn't arrived.

Cartouche

During World War One, letters were the only real form of communication from the soldiers at the front to home
12 million letters were delivered to the front every week
Astonishingly, it only took two days for a letter from Britain to reach the front in France. The journey began at a purpose-built sorting depot in Regent's Park before being shipped to the trenches. By the end of the war, two billion letters and 114 million parcels had had been delivered

Buford T. Justice XIX

A small group of Canadian Paratroopers stopped the Soviet advance into Northern Germany during WWII and stopped a potential Soviet takeover of Denmark.

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/canadian-paratroopers-saved-denmark-soviet-occupation.html/2

bnt

If you want to hear Morse Code used creatively, have a listen to this instrumental song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdpMpfp-J_I

It's called YYZ, after the airport code for Toronto, where the band Rush are from. One of them is a private pilot, and he heard the airport beacon on the radio blasting out -.-- -.-- --.. over and over again, and thought "hmmm" ... :cool: