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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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storker

corner of hells wrote: »

The HSE allows you only four viagra a month or 48 rides a year.
Less if you factor in headaches and the red army.

Your missus does the Red Army?

Chancer3001

I heard it was because it made the two hands look like a smiley face on the watch

Capt'n Midnight

Wibbs wrote: »

yep 10:08:42 because that became an industry standard, because it showed off the hands on an analogue watch well and also worked well for digitals too. IIRC it was Seiko who first made it a thing across their range in advertising literature, with the rest of the industry following suit.

On reason is that it meant the hands didn't cover the logo or date display.

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The word El in Hebrew, Semitic and proto Semitic languages means God. It originally was name of the specific God of the Canaanites but later becomes the general name for God.

It survives in modern Semitic languages and universally in names derived from Hebrew.

Israel - triumphant with God
Michael - who is like God
Daniel - god is my judge
Gabriel - God is my srength
Adel(le) - God is eternal.

The word angel means messenger of god. Does what it says on the tin.

(Seems like a compact language, huh?).

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Wibbs wrote: »

yep 10:08:42 because that became an industry standard, because it showed off the hands on an analogue watch well and also worked well for digitals too. IIRC it was Seiko who first made it a thing across their range in advertising literature, with the rest of the industry following suit.

Apple on the other hand nearly always show the iPhone clock/time at 9:41 in their promotional literature.

This was the time that Steve Jobs showed the original iPhone live in 2007. He was running a minute late

DogBun

If you stand on one leg, 300% of your body weight goes through that hip joint.

BBDBB

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

You could just take the Viagra at some other time...

That would be one hell of a weekend

Realt Dearg Sec

corner of hells wrote: »

The HSE allows you only four viagra a month or 48 rides a year.
Less if you factor in headaches and the red army.

You could just take the Viagra at some other time...

corner of hells

The HSE allows you only four viagra a month or 48 rides a year.
Less if you factor in headaches and the red army.

Wibbs

Roger Hassenforder wrote: »

Most of the watches in the Argos catalogue are at 10:08

yep 10:08:42 because that became an industry standard, because it showed off the hands on an analogue watch well and also worked well for digitals too. IIRC it was Seiko who first made it a thing across their range in advertising literature, with the rest of the industry following suit.

tayto lover

Professor Moriarty wrote: »

Under Brehon law, a man who didn't have sex with his wife due to disinterest was subject to a fine.

Does someone else's wife count?

eisenberg1

Professor Moriarty wrote: »

Under Brehon law, a man who didn't have sex with his wife due to disinterest was subject to a fine.

Purple Mountain wrote: »

Jack Duckworth be fooked so...

Or not.....

[Deleted User]

steddyeddy wrote: »

There's some stories that suggest Perillos himself met his end inside the bull when he was overthrown.

Poetic justice, if so.

Roger Hassenforder

steddyeddy wrote: »

If my aunty had balls she'd be my uncle.

She did wear the trousers in that house

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

steddyeddy wrote: »

If my aunty had balls she'd be my uncle.

But we knew that.

steddyeddy

Anders Shy Aircraft wrote: »

My uncle played the trombone.

If my aunty had balls she'd be my uncle.

Roger Hassenforder

Most of the watches in the Argos catalogue are at 10:08

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

My uncle played the trombone.

steddyeddy

Candie wrote: »

In ancient Greece it was considered healthier to exercise in the nude, and men in particular were encouraged to attend organized exercise sessions. Gymnasium is roughly translated as 'naked exercise school'.

Ancient Greece also gave us the Brazen Bull - an instrument of torture and death like no other. Invented by Perillos of Athens at the behest of Phalaris of Sicily, it comprised of a hollow bronze bull complete with acoustic devices. A person condemned to death would be locked inside the hollow bull and a fire lit underneath, and the screams of agony would be converted into something akin to the mellow bellow of a bull lowing as they cooked to death within.

The inventor was asked to climb inside to demonstate these acoustics, the door was slammed shut and he was given a taste of his own torture. Before he died, he was taken out and thrown off a cliff. Some people are just really ungrateful.

There's some stories that suggest Perillos himself met his end inside the bull when he was overthrown.

aoh

The entire reason CS Lewis wrote the lamppost into Chronicles of Narnia was because JRR Tolkien insisted that no good Fantasy writer would include something as arbitrary as a lamppost in their novel. CSL 1 JRR 0

uch

A fella called Alan was the 1996 Dublin canal angling champion

Purple Mountain

Professor Moriarty wrote: »

Under Brehon law, a man who didn't have sex with his wife due to disinterest was subject to a fine.

Jack Duckworth be fooked so...

Capt'n Midnight

Francois Isaac de Rivaz made the first hydrogen powered car back in 1807. It even had electric ignition.

tomwaterford

What is believed to be One of the most prolific and controversial serial killers of the 20th century with suspicion of 160+ murders was born in Antrim

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bodkin_Adams

Ipso

osarusan wrote: »

The parish of Aspatria, in Cumbria, takes its name from Ash-of-Patrick - the legend being that St. Patrick, who used to drive his ash staff into the ground while proselytising, spent so much time in the area that his staff had taken root and was growing by the time he finished.

I read that there is a chance that Patrick was from Cumbria and not Wales, from what I remember it is down to how he used to write about a wall that has been interpreted as Hadrians Wall.
I'll see if I can dig something more substantial up.

Realt Dearg Sec

the purple tin wrote: »

Candie wrote: »

In ancient Greece it was considered healthier to exercise in the nude, and men in particular were encouraged to attend organized exercise sessions. Gymnasium is roughly translated as 'naked exercise school'.

Ancient Greece also gave us the Brazen Bull - an instrument of torture and death like no other. Invented by Perillos of Athens at the behest of Phalaris of Sicily, it comprised of a hollow bronze bull complete with acoustic devices. A person condemned to death would be locked inside the hollow bull and a fire lit underneath, and the screams of agony would be converted into something akin to the mellow bellow of a bull lowing as they cooked to death within.

The inventor was asked to climb inside to demonstate these acoustics, the door was slammed shut and he was given a taste of his own torture. Before he died, he was taken out and thrown off a cliff. Some people are just really ungrateful.

Maybe he overcharged them.

The whole story is a load of bull.

the purple tin

Candie wrote: »

In ancient Greece it was considered healthier to exercise in the nude, and men in particular were encouraged to attend organized exercise sessions. Gymnasium is roughly translated as 'naked exercise school'.

Ancient Greece also gave us the Brazen Bull - an instrument of torture and death like no other. Invented by Perillos of Athens at the behest of Phalaris of Sicily, it comprised of a hollow bronze bull complete with acoustic devices. A person condemned to death would be locked inside the hollow bull and a fire lit underneath, and the screams of agony would be converted into something akin to the mellow bellow of a bull lowing as they cooked to death within.

The inventor was asked to climb inside to demonstate these acoustics, the door was slammed shut and he was given a taste of his own torture. Before he died, he was taken out and thrown off a cliff. Some people are just really ungrateful.

Maybe he overcharged them.

diomed

It doesn't mean bend over

.

It is the heraldic term for "a bend (diagonal stripe) which is golden or yellow in color".
It was the ancient former arms of the Grosvenor family which were adjudged against them in 1389 to the Scrope family in the most famous case ever heard before the Court of Chivalry, known as Scrope v Grosvenor.

Hundreds of years later, in 1887, Hugh Grosvenor (1st Duke of Westminster), named a horse Bend Or (why? It was no longer his coat of arms).
The horse won ten races including the English Derby at Epsom.

A challenge came from the owners of the second in the English Derby, Robert the Devil, against Bend Or's win on the grounds he was entered under the wrong description.
It was suggested that two foals had been mixed up and that it was the horse registered as Tadcaster that won the Derby.
The accusation came from a groom who formerly worked for the Duke, the richest man in England.

The objection was overruled by the Jockey Club, but controversy still remains today.
Recent research (Mim Bower, Cambridge University) compared DNA of Bend Or to that of Tadcaster's relatives suggested

the two had indeed been switched as foals. (suggested = proved).

Almost every racehorse you see today is descended from Bend Or (including Ireland's top sire Galileo).
But they are all descended from Tadcaster.

BBDBB

osarusan wrote: »

The parish of Aspatria, in Cumbria, takes its name from Ash-of-Patrick - the legend being that St. Patrick, who used to drive his ash staff into the ground while proselytising, spent so much time in the area that his staff had taken root and was growing by the time he finished.

Locals pronounce Aspatria - Spee-yat-tree

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Candie wrote: »

In ancient Greece it was considered healthier to exercise in the nude, and men in particular were encouraged to attend organized exercise sessions. Gymnasium is roughly translated as 'naked exercise school'.

I remember reading somewhere that in the early Olympics (I must look it up again to remember which one it was exactly) men used to be clothed, until a woman took part pretending to be a man (women were not allowed to race) and was discovered. Since then, and for aaaaages afterwards, Olympians were obliged to be naked to stop female interlopers.