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I bet you didnt know that

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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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GHOST MGG

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

And knowledge comes from either experience or education. Or from intelligence when knowledge comes from deduction.

I'd say the tomatoes thing comes for most people from education. They learned that.

Could be two right sticklers clashing here :pac:

harry Bailey esq

Candie wrote: »

The words silent and listen use the same letters.

Mother in law is an anagram of woman Hitler

BrokenArrows

GHOST MGG wrote: »

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

Thats brilliant. Had to google that to be sure, couldnt believe it.

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harry Bailey esq wrote: »

Mother in law is an anagram of woman Hitler

and David Ginola is an anagram of vagina dildo

Squall Leonhart

harry Bailey esq wrote: »

Mother in law is an anagram of woman Hitler

Cash lost in 'em

is an anagram of

Slot machines

everlast75

GHOST MGG wrote: »

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

to be fair, those executed were those that gave spoilers before viewings of "The Empire Strikes Back"

Red Kev

Far more barbaric than the guillotine is the Garrotte, which was used in Spain up until 1959. People were sentenced to death by Garrotte since then, but these have been commuted.

Andorra officially abolished it in 1990, but the last execution there took place centuries ago.

Slavery was officially abolished in Mauritania in 1980.

At least 7,500 people and probably more like 12-15,000 people committed suicide, died in Berlin alone in suicide pacts or murder suicides in the 2-3 days between the suicide of Hitler and the surrender of the German troops on May 2nd 1945. Thousands more did likewise around Germany.
Fear of reprisals on Nazi officials and fear of murder and mass rape by Soviet troops were the main cause.

By the time the Soviet troops took Berlin on May 2nd, the seat of Government under Admiral Doenitz had moved to Flensburg on the Danish border and German troops were taking orders from there, not Berlin.

valoren

The Saturn V rocket at full throttle generated enough energy at lift off to light up New York City for 75 minutes.

Red Kev

There are 8 capital cities in Africa that are further west than Dublin.

Lisbon is as well.

Buford T. Justice XIX

Red Kev wrote: »

Far more barbaric than the guillotine is the Garrotte, which was used in Spain up until 1959. People were sentenced to death by Garrotte since then, but these have been commuted.

Andorra officially abolished it in 1990, but the last execution there took place centuries ago.

Slavery was officially abolished in Mauritania in 1980.

At least 7,500 people and probably more like 12-15,000 people committed suicide, died in Berlin alone in suicide pacts or murder suicides in the 2-3 days between the execution of Hitler and the surrender of the German troops on May 2nd 1945. Thousands more did likewise around Germany.
Fear of reprisals on Nazi officials and fear of murder and mass rape by Soviet troops were the main cause.

By the time the Soviet troops took Berlin on May 2nd, the seat of Government under Admiral Doenitz had moved to Flensburg on the Danish border and German troops were taking orders from there, not Berlin.

Hitler and Eva Braun committed suicide in the German command bunker on April 30th 1945?

ahlookit

xper wrote: »

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.

ON the subject of scientific names for birds...

The "Subbuteo" name is derived from the neo-Latin scientific name Falco subbuteo (a bird of prey commonly known as the Eurasian hobby), after a trademark was not granted to its creator Peter Adolph to call the game "Hobby"

Skylinehead

valoren wrote: »

The Saturn V rocket at full throttle generated enough energy at lift off to light up New York City for 75 minutes.

90% of rocket weight is fuel needed to get 5% of the rocket into orbit.

Red Kev

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

Hitler and Eva Braun committed suicide in the German command bunker on April 30th 1945?

Yes, sorry, of course it was suicide. Getting ahead of myself there.

Slightly off topic, but I once met Traudl Junge in Munich around 1995. She was one of Hitler's secretaries and featured a lot in Downfall.

If you're ever in Munich the Schelling Salon in Schellingstrasse is the only pub there that can claim to have been the local pub for both Lenin and Hitler, though not at the same time. Lenin lived there from ca. 1900-03, Hitler first arrived there in 1913. Lenin was an illegal immigrant the whole time he was there and lived under several aliases, including "Lenin".

Hitler got a lifetime ban in the pub for not paying his bills. The great granddaughter of the first owner now runs the place (or did up until a few years ago), her great garandfather opened it in thee 1870's. the interior is pretty much the same as it was back then too.

Bandana boy

harry Bailey esq wrote: »

Mother in law is an anagram of woman Hitler

230 posts is the longest any thread on boards has gone till somebody mentioned Hitler

Cartouche

Bandana boy wrote: »

230 posts is the longest any thread on boards has gone till somebody mentioned Hitler

/thread

Mister Vain

An average fart is made of:
59% nitrogen
21% hydrogen
9% carbon dioxide
7% methane
4% oxygen
1% hydrogen sulfide - that's the smelly part.

An Indian tribe in South America called the Yanomami, use farting as a greeting.

A man in Afghanistan farted in front of his family, and out of disgust left the house for 20 years.

Sciprio

You can actually fit all the planets between the earth and the moon and considering the giant red spot on jupiter is bigger than the earth that gives you an idea of how much space is between the earth and the moon even though it's "Just up there"

The flying mouse

The term sideburns is a 19th-century corruption of the original burnsides, named after American Civil War general Ambrose Burnside,

A man known for his unusual facial hairstyle that connected thick sideburns by way of a moustache, but left the chin clean-shaven.

https://www.google.es/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjDzJXt9M7RAhUJtxQKHQ7tCvEQFggrMAE&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSideburns&usg=AFQjCNFm8MatUHs33fzM-k3HJ_R9bUghdQ

stimpson

Skylinehead wrote: »

90% of rocket weight is fuel needed to get 5% of the rocket into orbit.

What is the other 5%?

Skylinehead

stimpson wrote: »

What is the other 5%?

Rocket motors, fuel tanks (minus fuel) for the multiple stages of launch.

Nekarsulm

The Mercedes three pointed star symbol signifies the three elements for which Mercedes built engines. Air, Land and Water.
For a short time Mercedes considered using a four pointed star symbol, as they envisaged the eventual construction of engines for space travel.

Cartouche

Pink wasn’t always a girl’s color and blue a boy’s color — in fact, it was once the other way around.
The distinction of blue for boys and pink for girls didn’t take full hold until the middle of the 20th century

the14thwarrior

When Lee Marvin was in Ireland filming The Big Red One, the only time he ate was after 14 days, one morning - it was a piece of brown bread. He drank the rest of the days. The papers happened to take a picture and if you look closely you can see a piece of brown bread in his hand. FACT! (i have a few more but i'll keep you all in suspense)