nav[aria-label="Primary Navigation"] { padding: 0; & ul { list-style: none; width: 100%; display: flex; flex-direction: row; justify-content: start; align-items: start; gap: 30px; padding: 0; & li { margin: 0; } & ul li { list-style: none; } } }

Child Item

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"

Find more posts tagged with

Quick Links

Comments

Spanish Eyes

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

LOL..

Just testing the know alls here.

[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.

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.

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.

[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.

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

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

Grandeeod

With the introduction of the camera phone, iPhone and Samsung Galaxy range, people still don't know how to take a proper fooking photo. As for taking video footage, that's even fooking worse. People have been gifted fantastic technology and still I see ****ty framing, out of focus muck and shaky video footage. Pricks!

People know this already, so sorry.

dar100

[Deleted User] wrote: »

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.

No evidence to support any of this

[Deleted User]

Deleted User wrote: »

Post traumatic stress disorder changes the structure of the brain. The amygdala may grow in size.

Not sure that conclusion is supported by the research atm.

According to research carried out by anthrozoologists, enthnobiologists and neuroscientists, specific neurons in the amygdalae respond consistently to images and interactions with animals, leading to speculation that our brains have developed not only to analyze the threat from predators and the dynamics of hunting for food, but also to facilitate animal/human cooperation and partnership.

FrKurtFahrt

Percy Shaw patented the 'cat's eye' reflector in 1934, as a road safety aid. He got the idea while driving one night and a cat walked towards his car, the eyes lighting up brightly.

It is thought that if the cat was walking in the opposite direction, Shaw would have invented the pencil sharpener.

Cartouche

Before the mid-19th century dentures were commonly made with teeth pulled from the mouths of dead soldiers

Hammer89

The sun is 93 million miles away. I'm sure a lot of people know that, but think about how unfathomably hot it is. It burns us from 93 million miles away! That's great.

Miss Demeanour

Hammer89 wrote: »

The sun is 93 million miles away. I'm sure a lot of people know that, but think about how unfathomably hot it is. It burns us from 93 million miles away! That's great.

You're ginger right?

My fact....blue eyes aren't really blue.....its just a trick of the light.

Senna

Hammer89 wrote: »

The sun is 93 million miles away. I'm sure a lot of people know that, but think about how unfathomably hot it is. It burns us from 93 million miles away! That's great.

Sure couldn't be that hot, there ne heat of it at all at night

Cartouche

The Fermi paradox or Fermi's paradox, named after physicist Enrico Fermi, is the apparent contradiction between the lack of evidence and high probability estimates, e.g., those given by the Drake equation, for the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations. The basic points of the argument, made by physicists Enrico Fermi (1901–1954) and Michael H. Hart (born 1932), are:

There are billions of stars in the galaxy that are similar to the Sun, many of which are billions of years older than Earth.
With high probability, some of these stars will have Earth-like planets, and if the Earth is typical, some might develop intelligent life.
Some of these civilizations might develop interstellar travel, a step the Earth is investigating now.
Even at the slow pace of currently envisioned interstellar travel, the Milky Way galaxy could be completely traversed in a few million years

According to this line of reasoning, the Earth should have already been visited by extraterrestrial aliens. In an informal conversation, Fermi noted no convincing evidence of this, leading him to ask, "Where is everybody?"There have been many attempts to explain the Fermi paradox, primarily suggesting either that intelligent extraterrestrial life is extremely rare, or proposing reasons that such civilizations have not contacted or visited Earth.

gitzy16v

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."

Hook,line and sinker....it's AH.

Frynge

Outside of dogs, books are a mans best friend, inside of dogs, it is too dark to read.

dresden8

CINCLANTFLT wrote: »

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

There are 2 types of people in this world. Those who can extrapolate.

pedigree 6

The word Automobile comes from greek auto meaning self and the latin word moblis meaning movable.

The word Car comes from the Old Irish word Carr meaning wheeled vehicle and before that it was supposed to come from Old Celtic.

Any farmers or old people will know this but in Ireland horse or ass drawn carts were never called carts (English) in Ireland they were always called cars i.e the Haycar and Sidecar.

Outlaw Pete

When Leslie Grantham (Dirty Den in Eastenders) was 19 (1966) he murdered a taxi driver in West Germany. Shot him in the head while trying to rob him. Claimed it was an accident but the jury didn't believe him and he was sentenced to life imprisonment, but only served ten years.

In 1997 Bill Cosby's 27-year-old son got a puncture and as he was repairing it a guy came along and tried to car jack a female friend of his that came to help. She took off and the guy shot Cosby's son in the head killing him.

In 1985, the parents of Patrick Duffy (who played Bobby Ewing in Dallas) were both shot dead during an attempted robbery of the bar they ran in Montana.

In 1968 when Kelsey Grammer was 13 some lunatic set his father's car on fire and then shot him dead when he came out to confront him. Then seven years later his eighteen year old sister was abducted, raped, stabbed and subsequently died despite managing to flee from her attackers:

The murdering duo committed their final and most publicized killing on July 1, 1975. Glenn, Corbett, and two other men decided to rob the Red Lobster restaurant on South Academy Boulevard. They left without any money, but on their way out they grabbed Karen Grammer, an 18-year-old who worked there and was waiting for her boyfriend to get off work, because they feared she could identify them.

After robbing a convenience store, the men took Grammer to the apartment they shared, where they raped her repeatedly. They promised to take her home, then sat her in the car, put a cloth over her head and let her out in a mobile home park on South Wahsatch Avenue.

Then Glenn, who, according to court testimony, had taken LSD, stabbed her in the throat, back and hand, and left her to die. In a desperate attempt to save herself, she ran toward the back porch of a nearby home where there was a light, but the homeowners were out.

She died there, leaving bloody hand prints and fingerprints where she tried to reach the doorbell for help. She had almost reached the doorbell when she collapsed. Police photographs show a bloody hand print on the wall, inches from the doorbell.

Police did not know her name for a week, until her brother Kelsey Grammer arrived to identify the body.

HamsterFace

Wow ^^

Kind of explains why he's a hardline Republican

StupidLikeAFox

pedigree 6 wrote: »

The word Car comes from the Old Irish word Carr meaning wheeled vehicle and before that it was supposed to come from Old Celtic.

The original irish word for car was gluaistean so i looked this up. Don't think you are correct:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car#Etymology

I wish the term "horseless carraige" had stuck tbh

Shannon757

If you replace the "W" in "where", "what" and "when" with a "t" you get the answers.

Shannon757

The word "slang" is slang for short language.

Shannon757

The word "SWIMS" upside down is still "SWIMS"

Shenshen

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

Nope : late 15th century: from Portuguese marmelada ‘quince jam’, from marmelo ‘quince’, based on Greek melimēlon (from meli ‘honey’ + mēlon ‘apple’).

Wibbs

StupidLikeAFox wrote: »

The original irish word for car was gluaistean so i looked this up. Don't think you are correct:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car#Etymology

"gluaistean" is more recent, literally "fast thing" IIRC. "Car" was an old Celtic language word the Romans nicked, a word to describe a wheeled vehicle that would have been present in Celtic language Ireland that far back.

EDIT I just clicked the link you posted to support your idea and it seems you didn't actually read it?

"The word "car" is believed to originate from the Latin word carrus or carrum ("wheeled vehicle"), or the Middle English word carre (meaning two-wheel cart, from Old North French). In turn, these originated from the Gaulish word karros (a Gallic chariot). The Gaulish language was a branch of the Brythoic language which also used the word Karr; the Brythonig language evolved into Welsh (and Gaelic) where 'Car llusg' (a drag cart or sledge) and 'car rhyfel' (war chariot) still survive" Emphasis mine.

silverharp

The US gov is still paying for 2 civil war pensions (at least up to a few months ago)

valoren

Imagine someone going to watch Back to the Future part 2 in November 1989.
They see Doc Brown give Marty a pair of Nike shoes in Oct 2015.
The viewer thinks "If Nike still exists in 2015, then I ought to buy some stock today".
The day after the film, they invest $1,000 in NKE stock.

As of October 2015, the investment is worth $87,443 with an annual income of $865.

All thanks to Doc Brown's discerning taste in sneakers. Great...Scott!!!!