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I bet you didnt know that

Cartouche · 2017-01-14 15:28:48

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…

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#6662 30-07-2018 8:51am
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There was no impact as such with the Tunguska event. The general consensus is that a meteorite or comet exploded a few miles above the ground in an airburst as internal stresses blew it apart with the force of an H bomb. It flattened something like 600 square miles of forest, leaving millions of trees flattened and pointing away from the epicentre(where the tress remained standing, but stripped of their branches and bark).

The area near twenty years later.

The explosion could be heard thousands of miles away and the resulting earthquake was registered as far away as London as were the atmospheric changes. If that had come in only a few hours later or earlier and hit a populated area the loss of life would have been incredible. It would have utterly levelled a city the size of Paris for example and killed millions. Close call. And estimates put the size of the object at around 100 feet IIRC. There are much larger rocks still out there...

Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.

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#6663 30-07-2018 11:24am
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^^^^ knowing this you should watch snow scorpions video

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056602222&page=527

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#6664 30-07-2018 5:58pm
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The game, 'TAG', stands for Touch and Go.

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#6665 30-07-2018 6:11pm
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py2006 wrote: »

The game, 'TAG', stands for Touch and Go.

Sorry that's false.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/tag-acronym-touch-and-go/

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#6666 30-07-2018 6:14pm
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The word 'racecar' is a spelt the same backwards (a palindrome).

The longest palindrome is the Finnish word for soapstone vendor which is saippuakivikauppias.

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#6667 30-07-2018 7:27pm
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How many soapstone vendors are there in Finland?

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#6668 30-07-2018 8:58pm
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cdeb wrote: »

How many soapstone vendors are there in Finland?

I've lost count

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#6669 31-07-2018 11:30am
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cdeb wrote: »

How many soapstone vendors are there in Finland?

110011

It's the bally ballyness of it that makes it all seem so bally bally.

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#6670 31-07-2018 12:27pm
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mzungu wrote: »

The unicorn is the national animal of Scotland.

I thought it was the Haggis?

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#6671 31-07-2018 12:28pm
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New Home wrote: »

My facourite conspiracy theory is that Nicolas Tesla was responsible for Tunguska.

https://exemplore.com/paranormal/Nikola-Tesla-and-the-Invention-of-the-Death-Ray-Machine

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#6672 31-07-2018 12:33pm
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My facourite conspiracy theory is that Nicolas Tesla was responsible for Tunguska.

https://exemplore.com/paranormal/Nikola-Tesla-and-the-Invention-of-the-Death-Ray-Machine

The original photo is from Romania.

https://www.express.co.uk/travel/articles/688418/Missing-people-ghosts-crop-circles-World-s-most-haunting-holidays-hoia-baciu-chernobyl

Edit, actually the same photo appears for Tunguska a few times in searches. Could be either.

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#6673 31-07-2018 12:41pm
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the purple tin wrote: »

It was a scottish comedian (forgot his name) who started the whole stingey scots thing as well. Amazing how these things take on a life of their own.
A couple of my favourite Toibin Cavan jokes:
Why do Cavan supporters save their sandwiches until after the match has finished... in case it's a draw.
Cavan people emmigrate you know! Oh yes it's true, some of them have got as far as Monaghan

The thing about the main street in Cavan town is the longer it goes on, the mainer it gets!

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#6674 31-07-2018 12:44pm
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py2006 wrote: »

I've lost count

They are slippery .

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#6675 31-07-2018 12:47pm
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Chancer3001 wrote: »

The army was only 2 guys tho I think

And they gave them guns that couldn't shoot any distance

Emus used the amazing tactics of running away

I'd never heard of it so I just read the wiki article. there's some great quotes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War

The number of birds killed is uncertain: one account estimates that it was 50 birds,[6] but other accounts range from 200 to 500—the latter figure being provided by the settlers. Meredith's official report noted that his men had suffered no casualties

Summarising the culls, ornithologist Dominic Serventy commented:

The machine-gunners' dreams of point blank fire into serried masses of Emus were soon dissipated. The Emu command had evidently ordered guerrilla tactics, and its unwieldy army soon split up into innumerable small units that made use of the military equipment uneconomic. A crestfallen field force therefore withdrew from the combat area after about a month.

After the withdrawal, Major Meredith compared the emus to Zulus and commented on the striking manoeuvrability of the emus, even while badly wounded.

If we had a military division with the bullet-carrying capacity of these birds it would face any army in the world... They can face machine guns with the invulnerability of tanks. They are like Zulus whom even dum-dum bullets could not stop.[12]

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#6676 31-07-2018 1:15pm
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partyguinness wrote: »

Apparently the Dutch are adverse to debt. Had to spend a long weekend in Holland recently and no bar that we went to (and there was a few) would take VISA debit card. Luckily we had cash the first night and then had to take cash out.

I've never had a problem using my debit card there. that's weird.

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#6677 31-07-2018 1:41pm
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py2006 wrote: »

The word 'racecar' is a spelt the same backwards (a palindrome).

The longest palindrome is the Finnish word for soapstone vendor which is saippuakivikauppias.

Same vein (bit sillier)

Square brackets laid out like '[] []' isn't a palindrome. Whereas '[] ][' is.

Drawing it out, and asking someone 'is this a palindrome' I reckon is like a real life 'I'm not a robot' checker

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#6678 31-07-2018 3:35pm
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py2006 wrote: »

The word 'racecar' is a spelt the same backwards (a palindrome).

The longest palindrome is the Finnish word for soapstone vendor which is saippuakivikauppias.

'Detartrated' is in the Guinness book of records as the longest English palindrome.

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#6679 31-07-2018 5:52pm
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I learned years ago that nylon was an acronym for New York and London.

However some sites via a googly woogly suggest that it is a myth. Sad, because I delight in displaying my wealth of knowledge to ya'll.

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#6680 31-07-2018 5:58pm
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There was a TV series a few years ago that was set in both NY and Lon and it was called NY-Lon.

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#6681 31-07-2018 5:59pm
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New Home wrote: »

There was a TV series a few yeras ago which was set in both NY and Lon and was called NY-Lon.

Shut the front door...

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#6682 31-07-2018 6:01pm
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py2006 wrote: »

I learned years ago that nylon was an acronym for New York and London.

Doesn't sound even slightly plausible to me. The word nylon sounds like a scientific term and since nylon is a synthetic material then the word has to be derived from scientific terminology.

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#6683 31-07-2018 6:02pm
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py2006 wrote: »

Shut the front door...

I was only trying to cheer you up.

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#6684 31-07-2018 6:03pm
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AllForIt wrote: »

Doesn't sound even slightly plausible to me. The word nylon sounds like a scientific term and since nylon is a synthetic material then the word has to be derived from scientific terminology.

Think that one is true.

Strontium is named after a place in Scotland (and technically the Banshee).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strontium

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#6685 31-07-2018 6:04pm
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AllForIt wrote: »

Doesn't sound even slightly plausible to me. .

Ah yes, but nobody asked you!

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#6686 31-07-2018 6:06pm
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AllForIt wrote: »

Doesn't sound even slightly plausible to me. The word nylon sounds like a scientific term and since nylon is a synthetic material then the word has to be derived from scientific terminology.

The inventor himself said the nyl were just arbitrary with -on to finish like rayon.

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#6687 31-07-2018 6:17pm
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nylon (n.)
1938, coined, according to DuPont, from random generic syllable nyl- + -on, common ending in fiber names (compare rayon), said to be ultimately from cotton. Use (in plural) for "nylon stockings" is from 1940.

From Etymonline.

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#6688 31-07-2018 7:44pm
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A man, a plan, a canal - Panama.

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#6689 31-07-2018 11:01pm
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New Home wrote: »

From Etymonline.

DuPont invented it and didnt trademark it.

The didnt make that mistake with their next invention, and trademarked it, Teflon.

Edit, i think I've incorrectly used trademarked, should possibly be patented (without googling it)

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#6690 01-08-2018 12:13am
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py2006 wrote: »

I learned years ago that nylon was an acronym for New York and London.

However some sites via a googly woogly suggest that it is a myth. Sad, because I delight in displaying my wealth of knowledge to ya'll.

Miwadi comes from MIneral WAter DIstributors which is the company that made it first

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#6691 01-08-2018 4:32pm
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In our current decade the Irish state repealed some laws (without a referendum and probably without anyone noticing), which is a big relief in many cases:

Since 2015 there is no reward anymore for capture or death of “arch traitor” Hugh O’Neill Earl of Tyrone, issued originally in 1601.
(How much was it anyway?)

In 1665 an order was issued that the first Wednesday of every month is a day of fasting and penance in Ireland for the relief of the bubonic plague in London. That order was also expunged in 2015.
(Phew... finally. Is the plague gone from London so?)

Also in 2015 a proclamation from 1817 that the consumption of potatoes and oatmeal should be kept for the “lower orders” has been expunged.
(Now finally the “higher orders” can eat spuds and porridge openly and not in secret at night...)

Finally we are now allowed to criticise the marriage of Henry VIII and his second wife Ann Boleyn. Criticism of this marriage was prohibited in 1533 and a valid law until 2015.
(Shame on him, the old lecher or whatever. There, I said it! )

Edit: I have to correct myself here: Above mentioned laws/orders were expunged in 2006, not in 2015. Not that it makes any difference. Sorry about that.

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