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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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IvyTheTerrific

You may not know it, but a musical of Predator was made...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlicWUDf5MM

[Deleted User]

I doubt many Irish people are unaware that the Shannon is Ireland's longest river; by volume of water discharged to the sea per unit time it is also by some distance number one. The second greatest discharge rate is, perhaps surprisingly, of the River Corrib at Galway.

Capt'n Midnight

Chancer3001 wrote: »

Wtf glasnevin cemetery has over 1.5 million bodies buried in it ?

Or did I miss something !?

My add is an oldy but goody. There's more trees on earth than stars in our galaxy

Though there's three trees for every pair of galaxies.

New Home

What we call "Chinese Burns" (where a person grabs someone else's forearm with both hands and twists them in opposite directions) is known by many other names in other countries.

"Chinese burn" or "snake bite" in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand;
"Buffalo skin" in India, "snake bite", "Chinese Sunburn" or "Indian rub" in Canada;
"Indian burn", "Indian sunburn" or "Indian rug burn" in the United States (except in some midwest states such as Wisconsin and Illinois where it is known as a snakebite);
"Indian burn" in France;
"Spilli" ("pins") in Italy;
"Policeman's glove" or "hundred needles" in Hungary;
"Barbed wire" in the Netherlands;
"Needles" in Romania and Bulgaria and "Brennessel" ("stinging nettle") in Austria, Switzerland and the southern parts of Germany;
"Thousand needle stings" in the northern parts of Germany;
"Manita de puerco" (pork's little hand) in Mexico;
"Little fire" in the Czech Republic;
"Thousand needles" in Sweden;
"Nettle" in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Russia;
"French cuff" in Norway and Denmark;
"Kuuma makkara" (hot sausage) or "nokkonen" (nettle) in Finland;
"Snakebite" in Flanders.

(List taken primarily from wikipedia)

BaZmO*

New Home wrote: »

What we call "Chinese Burns" (where a person grabs someone else's forearm with both hands and twists them in opposite directions) is known by many other names in other countries.

"Chinese burn" or "snake bite" in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand;
"Buffalo skin" in India, "snake bite", "Chinese Sunburn" or "Indian rub" in Canada;
"Indian burn", "Indian sunburn" or "Indian rug burn" in the United States (except in some midwest states such as Wisconsin and Illinois where it is known as a snakebite);
"Indian burn" in France;
"Spilli" ("pins") in Italy;
"Policeman's glove" or "hundred needles" in Hungary;
"Barbed wire" in the Netherlands;
"Needles" in Romania and Bulgaria and "Brennessel" ("stinging nettle") in Austria, Switzerland and the southern parts of Germany;
"Thousand needle stings" in the northern parts of Germany;
"Manita de puerco" (pork's little hand) in Mexico;
"Little fire" in the Czech Republic;
"Thousand needles" in Sweden;
"Nettle" in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Russia;
"French cuff" in Norway and Denmark;
"Kuuma makkara" (hot sausage) or "nokkonen" (nettle) in Finland;
"Snakebite" in Flanders.

(List taken primarily from wikipedia)

Can confirm this one, just asked Mrs. B

barrymanilow

Most of the huge walls of amplifiers behind and around a rock band on bigger stages like festival s etc don't actually produce sound , they are just there for visual effect

Realt Dearg Sec

barrymanilow wrote: »

Most of the huge walls of amplifiers behind and around a rock band on bigger stages like festival s etc don't actually produce sound , they are just there for visual effects

How does an amplifier produce a visual effect?

the purple tin

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

How does an amplifier produce a visual effect?

Like just a wall of them to look more impressive

PaddyWilliams

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

How does an amplifier produce a visual effect?

By looking cool in the background I imagine? Or something to that effect anyway. All picture, no sound!

Realt Dearg Sec

the purple tin wrote: »

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

How does an amplifier produce a visual effect?

Like just a wall of them to look more impressive

Ah ok that makes sense, I thought the post said visual effects, plural.

EDIT: it did

bilbot79

Horses change their gait when the increased speed brings the pressure on their bones to one third of their tensile strength

Fourier

Bertrand Russel and Lord Alfred Whitehead at the start of the 20th century set out to prove that mathematics all worked, that there were no hidden flaws in it. In the first volume of their massive work Principia Mathematica on p.379 they finally prove 1 + 1 = 2

mzungu

Heroin was used to treat children's coughs.

Although better known today for their slightly less addictive asprin, Bayer commercialised heroin in the 1890s as a cough, cold, and pain remedy. As late as 1912 they were marketing it for children, even though there were plenty of reports by that time on its addictive properties. The FDA eventually called a halt and in 1914 heroin was restricted to prescription-only use. In 1924 they went the full hog and banned it altogether.

Below are some Spanish advertisements from 1912...

Ipso

barrymanilow wrote: »

Most of the huge walls of amplifiers behind and around a rock band on bigger stages like festival s etc don't actually produce sound , they are just there for visual effect

Only the ones that don’t go to 11.

prinzeugen

mzungu wrote: »

Heroin was used to treat children's coughs.

Although better known today for their slightly less addictive asprin, Bayer commercialised heroin in the 1890s as a cough, cold, and pain remedy. As late as 1912 they were marketing it for children, even though there were plenty of reports by that time on its addictive properties. The FDA eventually called a halt and in 1914 heroin was restricted to prescription-only use. In 1924 they went the full hog and banned it altogether.

Below are some Spanish advertisements from 1912...

We dug up tons of old glass bottles on our allotments. Millions of OXO jars but one was interesting.

I think it was called "Mothers helper" or similar. A Google told us it was a Morphine bottle from the early 1900's. It was rubbed of the gums of teething kids!

It still had the stopper and a bit liquid in it as did a old Milton bottle. We dumped the Morphine one as we were told having it was illegal.

thewolfisloose

Kirk Douglas is still alive. He was born in 1916, and is due to turn 102 in December.

py2006

thewolfisloose wrote: »

Kirk Douglas is still alive. He was born in 1916, and is due to turn 102 in December.

I was convinced he died earlier this year.

thesandeman

py2006 wrote: »

I was convinced he died earlier this year.

That was his career.
He received an award for services to the industry or something.

MikeyTaylor

thewolfisloose wrote: »

Kirk Douglas is still alive. He was born in 1916, and is due to turn 102 in December.

As is Olivia de Havilland

StupidLikeAFox

thewolfisloose wrote: »

Kirk Douglas is still alive. He was born in 1916, and is due to turn 102 in December.

To put that into perspective he was 53 when the moon landings happened and in his late 70s when the Berlin Wall came down

Wibbs

StupidLikeAFox wrote: »

To put that into perspective he was 53 when the moon landings happened and in his late 70s when the Berlin Wall came down

I actually knew that about Kirk. He was born the same year as my oulfella and he mentioned he was the same age as Kirk. He made it into the millennium, not quite as far as oul dimple chin.

Folks born then who made it into their 80's, even their 70's saw a lot of stuff come along. From canvas biplanes to landing on the moon in one lifetime. Never mind two world wars(just) and all the other stuff of the modern age.I wonder if someone born in 2016 will get to see such massive changes. In some ways, hopefully not.

razorblunt

bilbot79 wrote: »

Horses change their gait when the increased speed brings the pressure on their bones to one third of their tensile strength

Yeah, but if you open their gait too much then they'll bolt.

RiderOnTheStorm

Fourier wrote:

Bertrand Russel and Lord Alfred Whitehead ..... finally prove 1 + 1 = 2

when I worked in IT we discovered a bug in one of the financial packages. After hours and hours of investigations we narrowed it down to the addition of two variables. One contains a value of 4, the other contained a value of 3, and when they were added together the sum was 6.999 ..... We fixed it, but never figured out why.

Computers can be a right pain!

Ipso

RiderOnTheStorm wrote: »

when I worked in IT we discovered a bug in one of the financial packages. After hours and hours of investigations we narrowed it down to the addition of two variables. One contains a value of 4, the other contained a value of 3, and when they were added together the sum was 6.999 ..... We fixed it, but never figured out why.

Computers can be a right pain!

Rounding can be fun.
2 (2.3) + 2 (2.3) = 5 (4.6)

JRant

As late as the mid 1940's radioactive products were still being sold to the general public.

http://mentalfloss.com/article/12732/9-ways-people-used-radium-we-understood-risks

Check out No 7 on the list, not for the faint hearted :0

KevRossi

MikeyTaylor wrote: »

As is Olivia de Havilland

Who is also the oldest person ever to be made a Dame and herself and her sister Joan Fontaine are the only siblings to have received Academy Awards in the role of leading actor.

Franz Von Peppercorn

Vera Lynn is up there with Olivia. One year younger.

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

WWII seems so long ago. It seemed long ago when I was born. Yet there’s the “forces sweetheart”, a best selling musician (as an adult not a child) during that war. Still alive. Still singing. Released an album last year.

KevRossi

A Quadripoint is a point where 4 equal jurisdictions meet. Probably the best know one worldwide is in the USA, where Arizona, Utah, New Mexico and Colorado meet.

However, this is well beaten by the Italians who managed to get a Decipoint, by getting 10 districts to meet at the summit of Mt. Etna. It is the only known place on earth where this happens.

New Home

KevRossi wrote: »

A Quadripoint is a point where 4 equal jurisdictions meet. Probably the best know one worldwide is in the USA, where Arizona, Utah, New Mexico and Colorado meet.

However, this is well beaten by the Italians who managed to get a Decipoint, by getting 10 districts to meet at the summit of Mt. Etna. It is the only known place on earth where this happens.

I didn't know that, and I looked it up - it's actually 11 (and one municipality even has two "slots" - here shown in pale green)! EDIT: No, 10 is right, I looked at a smaller map earlier and didn't notice that one didn't reach the summit.

The borders of ten municipalities (Adrano, Biancavilla, Belpasso, Bronte (from two sides), Castiglione di Sicilia, Maletto, Nicolosi, Randazzo, Sant'Alfio, Zafferana Etnea) meet on the summit of Mount Etna, making this point one of elevenfold complexity, and the most complicated geopolitical multi-point anywhere north of the South Pole

Capt'n Midnight

^^^^