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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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Ipso

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

Well to be fair I measure time in pints. Often on a Friday I'll look at my watch and say I have time for a few more pints.

Pints are the fourth dimension, you can sometimes measure a session by the depth of pints.

New Home

There's a painless alternative to using the drill to deal with a tooth cavity. Silver diamine fluoride has been used for decades in Japan, and more recently in the States. It's completely painless (it actually works as a tooth desensitiser), and has virtually no side-effects (it does stain tough). It's also much cheaper than a normal dental treatment, as it only needs to be painted onto the tooth decay to stop dead it in its track. It's great for children, but also for elderly/frail patients.

More here.

Cordell

Cordell wrote: »

I really need to check this, I'll report later, gtg.

Words cannot express my disappointment.

dxhound2005

Cordell wrote: »

Words cannot express my disappointment.

Can you do it through the medium of dance?

Fourier

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

Oh, well then you obviously mean miles. And they measure time in ounces.

I've corrected the post now, I read that for science (BIPM) using "meter" is wrong! The shame.

Capt'n Midnight

Ipso wrote: »

So is time travel possible in theory, but humans just can’t do it?

yes you just need to move in a higher dimension

for flat earthers it would be the third dimension, :pac:

but you can only travel from dark ages to now.

Capt'n Midnight

CruelCoin wrote: »

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

They do that with political memos. By changing word order and using synonymous and different punctuation marks.

"the Ship of State is the only ship that leaks from the top".
- Yes Minister

[Deleted User]

Not here in Ireland obviously but pimps that deck themselves head to toe in gold jewelry do it for a reason. Its not a status symbol. Its business. They buy the gold from pawn shops. The reason being is that if they get arrested, the police can only confiscate any cash they are carrying but not jewelry. That jewelry is then re-pawned for bail money.

PaddyWilliams

mzungu wrote: »

A group of polar bears is called an aurora, a group of peacocks is called an ostentation and a group of pandas is called an embarrassment.

An embarrassment is also the collective noun for our politicians

Fourier

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

yes you just need to move in a higher dimension
for flat earthers it would be the third dimension, :pac:

but you can only travel from dark ages to now.

I actually got the little graphic from a flat Earth article. I originally had the diagram in full four-dimensional detail, but you have to have boards set to Godmode to view it.

Capt'n Midnight

If you went outside and lay down on your back with your mouth open, how long would you have to wait until a bird pooped in it?

–Adrienne Olson

195 years.

PaddyWilliams

CruelCoin wrote: »

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

A quick way to get rid of brain freeze is by pushing your tongue up against the roof of your mouth.

New Home

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

If you went outside and lay down on your back with your mouth open, how long would you have to wait until a bird pooped in it?

–Adrienne Olson

195 years.

Surely it'll depend on where you are standing.

OldRio

Harasrailltub wrote: »

There is an Island in the Caribbean called Montserrat where the natives speak with a cork accent.

It's because Cromwell exiled hundreds of people to the west indies from Cork , Kilkenny and Drogheda .

Exiled?
Exiled?
They were taken as slaves.

nim1bdeh38l2cw

OldRio wrote: »

Exiled?
Exiled?
They were taken as slaves.

They weren't though. That's a myth that has been thoroughly debunked in the last few years.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/17/us/irish-slaves-myth.html

OldRio

Wow, there's some politicking going on at the start of that article.
Blaming right wing message boards for a 'myth' ?
I'll have a full read later on.

Servants or Slaves?

Wibbs

OldRio wrote: »

Wow, there's some politicking going on at the start of that article.

Welcome to the interwebs.

Servants or Slaves?

Until the mid 19th century in the West there was a lot of overlap between the two. The lines were blurred. The serf system in imperial Russia which at its peak had some twenty million people as serfs was to all intents and purposes slavery. It was the 1800's before the Catholic Church officially condemned the practice. France was the first nation in Europe to officially ban slavery in the 14th century. It took a while before others followed suit.

In the classical world slavery was seen as normal and acceptable. The way we might think of "working for a living" as normal. Note how the Gospels written in the first century AD, with a basic Jewish cultural story translated through the prism of Greek and Roman thought make no mention of it as a moral issue. Islam which came centuries later codified the practice, but again didn't see it as a moral wrong. The most famous slave of the classical world Spartacus who we think of today as fighting against slavery almost certainly wasn't at the time and in his own head. It likely wouldn't have occurred to him.

LarryGraham

Following on from recent posts on the relationship between length and time. The beard-second is defined as the length an average beard grows in one second.

It's an extraordinarily small length with "official" formalizations between 5 nanometres and 10 nanometres.

Capt'n Midnight

New Home wrote: »

Surely it'll depend on where you are standing.

It's an average. There's maths in the link.

Warning: this link occasionally contains strong language (which may be unsuitable for children),
unusual humor (which may be unsuitable for adults),
and advanced mathematics (which may be unsuitable for liberal-arts majors).

smokingman

The mass of a hydrogen atom is actually less than the mass of its individual electron and proton added together.

Capt'n Midnight

Wibbs wrote: »

The most famous slave of the classical world Spartacus who we think of today as fighting against slavery almost certainly wasn't at the time and in his own head. It likely wouldn't have occurred to him.

Many freed slaves throughout history have kept slaves.

The horror of early capitalism on the plantations was the economics of working slaves to death. And not just slaves, we have statistics that show up to 20% of the sailors died during triangular trade voyages.

Franz Von Peppercorn

Melissa Uneven Archer wrote: »

They weren't though. That's a myth that has been thoroughly debunked in the last few years.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/17/us/irish-slaves-myth.html

He says this.

Without a doubt, life was bad for indentured servants. They were often treated brutally. Not all of them entered servitude willingly. Some were political prisoners. Some were children.

I’d call an indentured servant who didn’t enter service willingly a slave. I didn’t think they were paid.

The Iron Giant

Phoenix Park is the only north side location with a south side postal address number (Dublin 8 postcode).

The reason is that James' Street Postal Sorting Office provided postal services to the Phoenix Park and Áras an Uachtaráin because it was considered to be much closer, more convenient and able to provide a more expedient service than the Phibsborough Sorting Office (now Dublin 7).

Most people probably know this but I only found out in the last ten years

New Home

Exclamation Marc wrote: »

Phoenix Park is the only north side location with a south side postal address number (Dublin 8 postcode).

The reason is that James' Street Postal Sorting Office provided postal services to the Phoenix Park and Áras an Uachtaráin because it was considered to be much closer, more convenient and able to provide a more expedient service than the Phibsborough Sorting Office (now Dublin 7).

Most people probably know this but I only found out in the last ten years

So is Conyngham Road, IIRC.

The Iron Giant

New Home wrote: »

So is Conyngham Road, IIRC.

It is. Its considered part of Phoenix Park postally speaking (if postally is a word)

Fourier

smokingman wrote: »

The mass of a hydrogen atom is actually less than the mass of its individual electron and proton added together.

I've mentioned stuff like this up thread, but that's because hydrogen isn't made of a proton and an electron and the weight fact is a good example of something that indicates this. It's just that pretending it is gives you accurate results most of the time.

BaZmO*

Exclamation Marc wrote: »

Phoenix Park is the only north side location with a south side postal address number (Dublin 8 postcode).

The reason is that James' Street Postal Sorting Office provided postal services to the Phoenix Park and Áras an Uachtaráin because it was considered to be much closer, more convenient and able to provide a more expedient service than the Phibsborough Sorting Office (now Dublin 7).

Most people probably know this but I only found out in the last ten years

I suppose the reason it stands out is that all the Northside postcodes have odd numbers with the Southside postcodes being even.

Are Am Eye

Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »

He says this.

Without a doubt, life was bad for indentured servants. They were often treated brutally. Not all of them entered servitude willingly. Some were political prisoners. Some were children.

I’d call an indentured servant who didn’t enter service willingly a slave. I didn’t think they were paid.

At least they had access to good dental care.

The Iron Giant

BaZmO* wrote: »

I suppose the reason it stands out is that all the Northside postcodes have odd numbers with the Southside postcodes being even.

Yep that's it! Only even numbered postcode north of the Liffey

Water John

Maybe they were doing a Liam Lawlor on it. Stretching a postcode to give property a better address, to increase its value.