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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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CruelCoin

RiderOnTheStorm wrote: »

Well, the numbers look right ... But how do you know that the energy from the bullets is being subtracted from the hurricanes energy? The shots could be adding to the hurricane! gasp

You shoot into the leading edge of the hurricane.

But aye, you could enpower a hurricane by shooting the receding edge!

JaMarcus

StupidLikeAFox wrote: »

If you search for it you can also find the story about when he actually opened and had some customers in. They bought frozen stuff from Iceland (the supermarket) and heated it in the microwave and the people thought it was amazing.

Here's the video - it's a brilliant watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqPARIKHbN8

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The Corpus Callosum is situatued under the cerebral cortex in the human brain, and among other things it connects the two hemisphere of the brain. In general, the right side of the brain largely controls movements on the left side of the body, and the left side controls the right. Damage to this area on the right side of the brain can result in cognitive issues, as well as issues of control and muscle recognition on the left side of the body. One of the more interesting medical conditions that can result from right hemisphere damage from injury, surgery or illness such as a stroke, is Anarchic hand or Alien Hand Syndrome.

AHS is a rare neurological condition where one hand basically seems to act on it's own. A person could be writing with their right hand, and if the left is affected by AHS, then the left hand might purposefully move to stop them, or take the pen away. One could lift a fork to one's mouth with a right hand, and the left hand could smack it away. The movements appear considered and deliberate and goal orientated, and a battle to keep things in one hand while the other hand tries to take them away is a common symptom. You could zip up your fly with one hand while the other immediately takes it down. It must be incredibly frustrating. It differs from other disorders in that the patient recognizes it as belonging to them, but it appears to have it's own will.

It must be distressing to live with and thankfully it's rare since there is no cure for AHS. Drugs offer limited help, vocalizing commands to the rogue hand can sometimes help, and as a last resort strapping the hand down is used. Some people have even reported their hand as trying to hurt them.

It seems a very unfair business to survive injury, stroke, surgery or whatever, only to be burdened with a rogue hand sabotaging your everyday life from slapping you awake to trying to choke you.

Capt'n Midnight

CruelCoin wrote: »

The most searched for term on the Bing search engine has been "Google" for 28 months running.

RIP Bing

Bing was caught using Google.

Hiybbprqag was a made up word with made up results. But after a while Bing started returning results that could only have been scraped off Google.

mzungu

A pine tree was planted in memory of George Harrison at a park in LA in 2004 died after being infested by beetles.

Ipso

They should have went with Norwegian Wood.

mzungu

Ipso wrote: »

They should have went with Norwegian Wood.

They should have just Let it Tree.

New Home

Surely you mean "Let it Bee".

mzungu

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Joan Pujol Garcia was awarded an MBE for his services in WW2 for the allies....but he also awarded the Iron Cross for services to Germany in the same war!

He first approached the allies to work for them, but they rejected him. So, having developed a disliking for fascism during the Spanish civil war, he decided to go it alone in his crusade against the Nazi's. He went to work for the them, posing as a pro-fascist Spanish government official. He was sent to spy in the UK, a request he ignored and went to Lisbon instead and wrote out bogus reports on the UK, taking information from various public service sources like train timetables and cinema newsreels.

This information would not have withstood much scrutiny, which is why he invented fictional sub-agents who could be blamed for false information and mistakes. He remained a trusted spy by the Germans.

He was finally taken on board by the allies when they could see his worth as a spy. His family was moved to Britain and Pujol was given the code name "GARBO". For the remainder of the war, he and his handler Tomás (Tommy) Harris spent the rest of the war expanding the fictional network, communicating at first by letter to the German handlers and later by radio. By the end of it, the Germans were funding a network of twenty-seven fictional agents.

Pujol played an important role in Operation Fortitude, the deception operation intended to mislead the Germans about the timing and location of the invasion of Normandy in 1944. The false information Pujol supplied helped persuade the Germans that the main attack would be in the Pas de Calais, so that they kept large forces there before and even after the invasion

Franz Von Peppercorn

RiderOnTheStorm wrote: »

Find it hard to believe 1% is in the ocean, and tried to read that source but lost will to live ...

Easy enough read.

We find that the kingdoms of life concentrate at different locations on the planet; plants (≈450 Gt C, the dominant kingdom) are primarily terrestrial, whereas animals (≈2 Gt C) are mainly marine, and bacteria (≈70 Gt C) and archaea (≈7 Gt C) are predominantly located in deep subsurface environments. We show that terrestrial biomass is about two orders of magnitude higher than marine biomass and estimate a total of ≈6 Gt C of marine biota, doubling the previous estimated quantity.

Most biomass is land based plants. More animals in the ocean but plants at 450Gt are much larger than animals at 2GT. Bacteria is 70Gt.

CruelCoin

The Palestinians and Israelis in Jerusalem observe different timezones. In the same city.

sbsquarepants

Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »

Most biomass is land based plants. More animals in the ocean but plants at 450Gt are much larger than animals at 2GT. Bacteria is 70Gt.

What's Gt? Giga ton?

So pound for pound there's 35 times more bacteria than animals? That is certainly surprising! :eek::eek:

sbsquarepants

Wibbs wrote: »

Could there be more biomass in the "dry" bits? I'd not have an issue with that D, but the claim that the entirety of the "wet" bits only has one percent of Earth's biomass? No way. That has got to be a typo, or some scientists were at the distillation kit in the lab and cooked up a doozie of a beverage.

I think your disbelief stems from a false idea of how much water there actually is. When you look at the globe it seems to be roughly 3/4 water, but that's only the surface. Even the deepest ocean is barely a scratch on the surface in relative terms.
Water is shockingly rare and only accounts for something like 1/4 of 1% of the total mass of the planet, that's everything - rivers, lakes oceans, clouds and bottles in supermarkets!.
So 1% of the biomass is actually fairly teaming with life.

IvyTheTerrific

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Bing was caught using Google.

Hiybbprqag was a made up word with made up results. But after a while Bing started returning results that could only have been scraped off Google.

And that's not a new trick to catch out fraudsters.
Dictionary makers put fake words in dictionaries and map makers put false features on their maps so they can tell when they've been copied.

CruelCoin

A dog's noseprint is unique, no two are alike.

CruelCoin

Think of a number.
Double it.
Add Six.
Subtract your origional number.

Your answer is three

CruelCoin

If you put headphones in nostrils, close your windpipe and open your mouth, you turn your head into a big speaker.

New Home

CruelCoin wrote: »

Think of a number.
Double it.
Add Six.
Subtract your origional number.

Your answer is three

Nope. I guess that only works for numbers under 10.

Barney92

New Home wrote: »

Nope. I guess that only works for numbers under 10.

It doesn't work for numbers under 10 either. Think it is meant to be

Think of a number.
Double it.
Add Six.
Divide it in half.
Subtract your origional number.

Your answer is three

CruelCoin

The scientific name for "brain freeze" caused by eating something cold is sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia.

CruelCoin

IvyTheTerrific wrote: »

And that's not a new trick to catch out fraudsters.
Dictionary makers put fake words in dictionaries and map makers put false features on their maps so they can tell when they've been copied.

Film studios put unique markers in screening copies to try detect who shared the screener to pirates.

New Home

Barney92 wrote: »

It doesn't work for numbers under 10 either. Think it is meant to be

Think of a number.
Double it.
Add Six.
Divide it in half.
Subtract your origional number.

Your answer is three

So what you do is divide 6 by 2.

CruelCoin

Barney92 wrote: »

It doesn't work for numbers under 10 either. Think it is meant to be

Think of a number.
Double it.
Add Six.
Divide it in half.
Subtract your origional number.

Your answer is three

You are correct! I didn't type the divide by 2 bit....

Barney92

New Home wrote: »

So what you do is divide 6 by 2.

Exactly.

Fourier

New Home wrote: »

So what you do is divide 6 by 2.

Virtually all number tricks (like doing something always leaving 9 or a number ending in 9 or starting in 123456789... etc) have fairly basic reasons they're true when you pull them apart.

Tell me how

Fourier wrote: »

Virtually all number tricks (like doing something always leaving 9 or a number ending in 9 or starting in 123456789... etc) have fairly basic reasons they're true when you pull them apart.

Well yeah...... because it's mathematics.

FishOnABike

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Bing was caught using Google.

Hiybbprqag was a made up word with made up results. But after a while Bing started returning results that could only have been scraped off Google.

IvyTheTerrific wrote: »

And that's not a new trick to catch out fraudsters.
Dictionary makers put fake words in dictionaries and map makers put false features on their maps so they can tell when they've been copied.

CruelCoin wrote: »

Film studios put unique markers in screening copies to try detect who shared the screener to pirates.

These deliberate mistakes are known as copyright easter eggs.

Fourier

Tell me how wrote: »

Well yeah...... because it's mathematics.

I'm not sure what you mean. There are number patterns that are true for deeper reasons, but would also be 'just mathematics'. I more mean many number tricks don't really show an unusual fact about numbers, you're really just "dividing six by two" or similar.

Professor Moriarty

CruelCoin wrote: »

The scientific name for "brain freeze" caused by eating something cold is sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia.

Interestingly, I tried saying sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia and my brain froze.

CruelCoin

I have spent approx 35000 hours in my lifetime playing video games.

I could have cured cancer but didn't.

You're welcome.