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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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ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

CalamariFritti wrote: »

Which is quite untrue. Knowing tomatoes are a fruit is education not intelligence.

Actually knowing something is not education, it's knowledge - which is the word I intended using originally.

CalamariFritti

Anders Shy Aircraft wrote: »

The old saying... Intelligence is knowing Tomatoes are a fruit but wisdom is knowing not to put them in a fruit salad.

Rhubarb is a vegetable.

Which is quite untrue. Knowing tomatoes are a fruit is education not intelligence.

Peregrinus

sup_dude wrote: »

All of them come from three founding sires: Darley Arabian, Byerley Turk, and Godolphin Arabian. A few more stallions helped with breeding lines, including a single stallion who was thought to be responsible for the grey colouring. If you trace male lines only, most of descended from Darley Arabian, but when you include female lineage, most of descended from Godolphin Arabian.

In all, Thoroughbreds (as the name suggests) are horridly inbred but do cross with some of our own native breeds to make some fantastic sport horses.

Plus, their genealogy is reliably and comprehensively recorded for many generations back, which makes them ideal subjects for genetic studies.

Ave Sodalis

diomed wrote:

Almost all thoroughbred horses (racehorses to the unwashed) are descended in direct male line (father to father about 24 generations) from the Darley Arabian, bought in Aleppo, Syria, in 1704. Thomas Darley, who bought the horse, shipped it back to England. Darley never saw the horse again. He died in Syria.

All of them come from three founding sires: Darley Arabian, Byerley Turk, and Godolphin Arabian. A few more stallions helped with breeding lines, including a single stallion who was thought to be responsible for the grey colouring. If you trace male lines only, most of descended from Darley Arabian, but when you include female lineage, most of descended from Godolphin Arabian.

In all, Thoroughbreds (as the name suggests) are horridly inbred but do cross with some of our own native breeds to make some fantastic sport horses.

IvyTheTerrible

The English words for meats like pork and beef have a French origin, because it was the rich French-speaking Norman aristocracy that ate them, while the corresponding animal names are of Anglo Saxon origin, because it was the peasants who looked after them.

xper

Zaph wrote: »

The scientific name for the Southern Giraffe is Giraffa giraffa.

Puffinus puffinus is the scientific name of a seabird that breeds in large numbers in burrows on islands and remote headlands around North Atlantic coasts. It's English name is ...

... the Manx Shearwater.

The Puffin's scientific name is Fratercula arctica.

GHOST MGG

France was still executing people by guillotine when the first star wars movie was released......

Zaph

Cartouche wrote: »

The scientific name for the Black Rat is Rattus rattus

The scientific name for the Southern Giraffe is Giraffa giraffa.

Yourself isit

Anders Shy Aircraft wrote: »

The old saying... Intelligence is knowing Tomatoes are a fruit but wisdom is knowing not to put them in a fruit salad.

Rhubarb is a vegetable.

Tomatoes are a culinary veg apparently. Hat tip David Mitchell.

Cartouche

The scientific name for the Black Rat is Rattus rattus

maudgonner

harry Bailey esq wrote: »

I get loads of wild rhubarb behind me house,never bothered taking any and making something out of them.

I feckin' love rhubarb and I'm having an awful craving for it now

(If you don't want to make tarts or crumbles, rhubarb & ginger jam is fairly easy to make and it's lovely!)

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

scamalert wrote: »

meetings in japan are usually held while standing up - was told that,while it seems strange one,but given culture wouldn't be surprised since imagine saves time and down to business there.

Meetings in Japan can seem interminably long. They take forever to reach a decision, in my experience.

This is a decent summary...http://www.worldbusinessculture.com/Business-Meetings-in-Japan.html

harry Bailey esq

maudgonner wrote: »

In the middle ages rhubarb was imported to Europe from Asia and was more expensive than spices such as saffron and even opium.

I get loads of wild rhubarb behind me house,never bothered taking any and making something out of them.

scamalert

meetings in japan are usually held while standing up

- was told that,while it seems strange one,but given culture wouldn't be surprised since imagine saves time and down to business there.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Cartouche wrote: »

Strawberries are the only fruit that has seeds on the outside

And Cashews

Cartouche

Strawberries are the only fruit that has seeds on the outside

Four Phucs Ache

Goose bumps appear when our body is cold and show up when teeny tiny muscles stuck to our hair follicles flex, causing hair in these follicles to stand, creating a heat-trapping layer in the skin.

IvyTheTerrible

Anders Shy Aircraft wrote: »

The old saying... Intelligence is knowing Tomatoes are a fruit but wisdom is knowing not to put them in a fruit salad.

Rhubarb is a vegetable.

Leeks are just leaves.

maudgonner

Anders Shy Aircraft wrote: »

Rhubarb is a vegetable.

In the middle ages rhubarb was imported to Europe from Asia and was more expensive than spices such as saffron and even opium.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

harry Bailey esq wrote: »

He's right you know.As an aside,people consider bananas to be a fruit, botanically speaking though they are classed as berries,whilst strawberries,botanically speaking are not true berries,and are classed as fruit.

The old saying... Intelligence is knowing Tomatoes are a fruit but wisdom is knowing not to put them in a fruit salad.

Rhubarb is a vegetable.

harry Bailey esq

Anders Shy Aircraft wrote: »

Strictly speaking it stands for Bayerische Motoren Werke it just translates to the same initials.

He's right you know.As an aside,people consider bananas to be a fruit, botanically speaking though they are classed as berries,whilst strawberries,botanically speaking are not true berries,and are classed as fruit.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

ILikeBoats wrote: »

Nearly sure Mythbusters did it eight times. They got a piece of paper the size of an airplane hanger or something like that

Seven is the usual limit but Eleven has been achieved.

diomed

Almost all thoroughbred horses (racehorses to the unwashed) are descended in direct male line (father to father about 24 generations) from the Darley Arabian, bought in Aleppo, Syria, in 1704. Thomas Darley, who bought the horse, shipped it back to England. Darley never saw the horse again. He died in Syria.

ILikeBoats

Miley Byrne wrote: »

Just on a similar theme, any piece of paper can only be folded in half seven times

Nearly sure Mythbusters did it eight times. They got a piece of paper the size of an airplane hanger or something like that

mloc123

Advbrd wrote: »

A 2 X 4 is really 1-1/2 inches by 3-1/2 inches.

POA right?

diomed

Huguette Clark died on May 24, 2011.
Her father W A Clark was born on January 8, 1839.
172 years, 4 months between the birth of the father and death of the daughter.
He was 67 when she was born. She died at 104 years.

Miley Byrne

runawaybishop wrote: »

With a sufficiently large piece of paper and assuming you can fold it as much as you want you would only have to fold it 42 times and it's thickness would reach the moon.

Just on a similar theme, any piece of paper can only be folded in half seven times

steddyeddy

Malari wrote: »

http://www.nature.com/news/trillions-of-trees-1.18333

That's a brilliant paper.

Kat1170

GBX wrote: »

If you email your boss "suck my balls" you wont have to go to work anymore.

If she is beautiful, you might even 'get a raise'

Ooh-err, missus, fnarr fnarr :P

A Neurotic

Contrary to popular usage, the term 'psychotic' doesn't mean, of itself, that someone is violent or dangerous.