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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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Kat1170

Anders Shy Aircraft wrote: »

You can add the guts of €2000 to that, as he was born around 6bc

I was talking about Jesus Manuel Rodrigues, born in 1AD just south of what would later become Mexico city.

;)

Cartouche

Shannon757 wrote: »

WOW!

Indeed. It was called the "Wow" signal

http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/chasing-ufos/articles/what-is-the-wow-signal/

Capt'n Midnight

Mr. FoggPatches wrote: »

John le carre's real name is john the two wheeled cart.

A bit like Joe Le Taxi then

Cartouche

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. All the better for them to eavesdrop on your conversations and plot your demise.

K.Flyer

Chancer3001 wrote: »

If someone gave you a euro every day since jesus was born you wouldnt be close to being a millionaire yet

But..
If someone was to give you a Euro today, then tomorrow, gave you double what you have today, then the following day gave you double what you had the previous day and continued on each day doubling the amount of money you had the previous day, in under 21 Days you would be a Millionaire.

Senna

K.Flyer wrote: »

But..
If someone was to give you a Euro today, then tomorrow, gave you double what you have today, then the following day gave you double what you had the previous day and continued on each day doubling the amount of money you had the previous day, in under 21 Days you would be a Millionaire.

All you need now is the person to give you the money each day.

Digital Solitude

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!

You can use binary to count to 1023 on your fingers

Cartouche

A severe weather front hit Ireland in the one of the coldest winters in Irish history in 1740. The great frost wiped out an estimated 400,000 people as temperatures plummeted and the cold intensified. The cold weather led to food riots, famine and epidemic and death.

jimbobaloobob

Foreign legion soldiers have Christmas with the legion its their first family once they join.

Tigger

Mouseslayer17 wrote: »

Warm water freezes quicker than cold
Mindblown

DOES HOT WATER FREEZE FASTER THAN COLD WATER?
It’s an age-old question with a simple answer: no.
Since the time of Aristotle, researchers and amateur scientists alike have batted about the counterintuitive theory that hot water freezes faster than cold. The notion even has a name: the Mpemba effect, named for a Tanzanian schoolboy who in 1963 noticed that the ice cream he and his classmates made from warm milk froze quicker than that made from cool milk.

“No matter what the initial temperature of water is, it must be brought to the freezing point before it will change state and become ice,” says Prakash Govindan, a postdoctoral associate in MIT’s Mechanical Engineering department. It will actually take more time and/or energy to freeze hot water because it must be brought down further in temperature until it reaches the freezing point, about 0°C.

Govindan suggests conducting a simple experiment to demonstrate that hot and cold water will behave as logic predicts. “Fill two identical containers with hot and cold tap water from the kitchen sink and see which freezes first,” he says. Interestingly, he points out, the rates of change in this experiment will not be the same. “When you set them in the freezer, the freezer will work harder to bring the temperature of the hot water down, so initially the rate of heat transfer will be faster in the hot water.” However, the other container will be cooling at the same time (if not at quite the same rate).

When the temperature of the water in each container reaches just about 0°C it will undergo the same changes as it moves from a liquid to a solid, and it will take the same amount of time to begin forming tiny ice crystals. At that point, each mixture of liquid and ice will be at a uniform temperature, and as more heat is taken from the mixtures, the thermodynamic principle of latent heat kicks in: The water continues to convert to a solid state, but no longer changes in temperature. “As long as you have a mixture of liquid water and solid ice, the temperature will remain at 0 until all the water is frozen,” says Govindan.

It’s never been convincingly proven than hot water and cold water behave differently from each other at any step of the freezing process, despite the ongoing fascination with the Mpemba effect. In early 2013, Europe’s Royal Society of Chemistry even held a competition for the best explanation of the theory. The winner speculated that hot water indeed freezes more quickly if the cold water is first supercooled. But logic triumphs when it comes the plain ordinary water that comes from the household faucet. Most likely to impact the freezing point of water is the presence of impurities such as salt, dissolved solids and gases—and the ingredients of homemade ice cream. —Sarah Jensen

steddyeddy

I am great in bed!

Cartouche

The worst ever pandemic in history of mankind was the Black Death that claimed the lives of nearly 75 to 200 million people worldwide. The disease received its name ‘Black Death’ in Europe where it was responsible for wiping out nearly 30-60% of the total European population

Several weird thoughts were put into practice with the belief that doing so will help to cure or at least prevent the spreading of the plague. Some of the methods were:

Eating and drinking in moderation.
Maintaining a household as per a person’s status.
Refraining oneself from abusing the poor people.
Avoiding lechery.
Adding aromatic herbs in beverages.
Not eating fruits.
Drinking good wine.
Avoiding bad thoughts.
Staying happy

Manny7

The closest US state to Africa is Maine

Kat1170

Manny7 wrote: »

The closest US state to Africa is Maine

Maine is also the only US state to have only one syllable.

GerryDerpy

Kat1170 wrote: »

Maine is also the only US state to have only one syllable.

That's very Maine.

Lyle Lanley

Kat1170 wrote: »

Maine is also the only US state to have only one syllable.

Actually they all have one syllable, just most of them also have more syllables too. Not many people know that.

Cartouche

Bridget Dowling was a Dublin native who married Alois, Adolf Hitler’s half brother. She bore a son, Patrick who had four children himself, two of whom survive. The sons grew up on Patchogue, Long Island.

The sons are among the only remaining blood links to Adolf Hitler and the two surviving brothers have no children so if they remain that way the Hitler Irish and American link will die out.

IvyTheTerrible

Cartouche wrote: »

Bridget Dowling was a Dublin native who married Alois, Adolf Hitler’s half brother. She bore a son, Patrick who had four children himself, two of whom survive. The sons grew up on Patchogue, Long Island.

The sons are among the only remaining blood links to Adolf Hitler and the two surviving brothers have no children so if they remain that way the Hitler Irish and American link will die out.

There were quite a few people with the surname Hitler in the New York phone book before the war. They all changed their names or moved, because there were none after!

Red Kev

You often hear the phrase in Ireland "the next parish due west of here is New York"

New York is at the same latitude as Madrid, Naples and Thessalonika and a bit further south than Istanbul.

Dublin is at the same latitude as Omsk in Russia which hit -26C last night, Minsk (-13C) or Edmonton in Canada (-16C).

Red Kev

The song "Push It" by Salt 'n Pepa" was released nearer in time to "Be Bop a Lula" by Gene Vincent than the present day. (1986 & 1956)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCadcBR95oU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hl0gzUH5_Xs

ohnonotgmail

Cleopatra lived closer to our time than she did to the building of the great pyramids.

runawaybishop

K.Flyer wrote: »

But..
If someone was to give you a Euro today, then tomorrow, gave you double what you have today, then the following day gave you double what you had the previous day and continued on each day doubling the amount of money you had the previous day, in under 21 Days you would be a Millionaire.

20 days. On day 21 you will be given over a million, but the 20 days before all add up to a million

pickarooney

Lyle Lanley wrote: »

Actually they all have one syllable, just most of them also have more syllables too. Not many people know that.

Rubbish post and you failed to read the one you quoted.

eviltimeban

If 2017 was the year the Beatles recorded their final album, they only recorded their first album in 2011.

ohnonotgmail

runawaybishop wrote: »

20 days. On day 21 you will be given over a million, but the 20 days before all add up to a million

are you not agreeing with the poster you quoted? they said under 21 days.

runawaybishop

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

are you not agreeing with the poster you quoted? they said under 21 days.

Yeah, kinda - its just a bit misleading to say "under 21" - in "under 30" days you would also be a millionaire also. Better to say in 20 days as that's when you get the million.

Laois_Man

It is illegal to eat mince pies on Christmas Day in the UK - a law that has existed since Oliver Cromwell brought it in to stamp out gluttony - the law still exists today.

Laois_Man

Cartouche wrote: »

On August 15, 1977, a strong narrowband radio signal was received by Ohio State University's Big Ear radio telescope, in the United States, then assigned to a SETI project. The signal appeared to come from the constellation Sagittarius and bore the expected hallmarks of alien origin

Two of the e-mails leaked in the Hillary Clinton hacking scandal in October last year revealed e-mails from 2015 suggesting that the US Government and the Vatican know about the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence and their visitations to Earth. Apparently, they are in contact with them, they are friendly and they want to help us generate free energy

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Laois_Man wrote: »

It is illegal to eat mince pies on Christmas Day in the UK - a law that has existed since Oliver Cromwell brought it in to stamp out gluttony - the law still exists today.

Not according to the UK Law Commission. Another Urban Myth.

Legend:It has been claimed that the act of eating a mince pie on Christmas Day is illegal in England.
Evidence: Festive celebrations, including mince pies and Christmas puddings, were reportedly banned in Oliver Cromwell's England as part of efforts to tackle gluttony.
But the ban did not survive when Charles II became king. In fact, the Law Commission says none of the 11 laws that remained on the statute books after Cromwell's reign related to mince pies.
Verdict: Myth.

jimgoose

Laois_Man wrote: »

It is illegal to eat mince pies on Christmas Day in the UK - a law that has existed since Oliver Cromwell brought it in to stamp out gluttony - the law still exists today.

That's just the tip of the iceberg. It is also illegal in Britain to:

Be drunk or, as a landlord allow drunkeness, in a pub.

Carry a plank on a pavement.

Enter the Houses of Parliament in a suit of armour.

Beat a rug or carpet on the street.

Handle salmon in suspicious circumstances.

Ride on a bus if you have the plague.

Import potatoes which are known or suspected to be Polish.