I bet you didnt know that

29-12-2017 4:15pm

Cartouche wrote: »

I bet you didn't know that...

there's a massive difference between squared metre, and metre squared - one which most of the English-speaking world seems oblivious to:

Difference between metres squared and squared metres

'A square metre is not the same as a metre square, an area 2 metres wide by 5 metres long would be 10 square metres. In contrast, a 10-metre square (10 metres by 10 metres) is actually 100 square metres.' (Source)

RiderOnTheStorm · 29-12-2017 4:32pm

Deleted User wrote:

...there's a massive difference between squared metre, and metre squared...

Surprisingly (or not) this has great relevance when you go shopping, and (for example) want to buy Irish goods. Watch out for difference between "Irish smoked ham" and "smoked Irish ham". The former means the ham (could be from anywhere) was smoked in Ireland . The latter means its Irish ham. Packaging/advertising pull this sh1t all the time...

daisyos1 · 29-12-2017 4:39pm

I bet you didn't know that you can actually swallow the saliva in your mouth while at the dentist. It is not toxic or poisonous. We only use water. I'm sure you've swallowed worse!! (dental profession)

Grayson · 29-12-2017 4:46pm

Anders Shy Aircraft wrote: »

As it was 1910, and therefore a silent movie, it hardly matters.

Unless the speech cards were written with Irish accents.

Grayson · 29-12-2017 4:54pm

the purple tin wrote: »

It's a myth that Hitler didn't drink and was a vegetarian.
He was partial to caviar, german sausage and beer and wine. Joseph Goebbels pushed the myth to make Hitler seem disciplined and pure, also Gandhi was hugely popular throughout Europe at the time and well known for not eating meat so Goebbels was piggybacking off of that too.

Hitler was strongly anti-smoking though and he implemented a smoking ban in the 30's.

Except he was kind of a vegetarian. But not by choice. He suffered from a lot of flatulence. So his doctors told him to eat loads of boiled vegetables, including sprouts if I remember correctly. Strangly that didn't solve the problem

You are right that he loved a bit of german sausage ( ohhh matron) but he cut it out of his diet because his doctor told him to. He still took other meat products for "Health Reasons".

Führer took hard drugs, especially opiates, and was not quite the teetotaller that Nazi propaganda liked to portray. Hitler was not even a vegetarian – he mainlined pigs’ liver extracts and swallowed capsules filled with bulls’ testicles.

He was also taking a ridiculous amount of speed. It's thought that it might have driven him crazy, or even crazier than he already was since the drugs cause acute paranoia. And he wasn't the only one. Germany was on an intense binge at the time.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/may/02/i-had-an-intimate-knowledge-of-hitler-norman-ohler-blitzed

Editing to add, I found this great interview with the guy who's in the first link. Makes for an interesting read.
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/03/07/518986612/author-says-hitler-was-blitzed-on-cocaine-and-opiates-during-the-war

retalivity · 29-12-2017 5:30pm

Candie wrote: »

Nauru is a tiny nation of about 22sq km with some big problems endured by it's population of about 10.3k citizens.

It has an unemployment rate over 90%, and a weight problem second to none with around 97% of men and 94% of women described as obese. This Central Pacific island nation, the third smallest country in the world, had a thriving phosphate mining industry 30 years ago but now the reserves are totally depleted, and most employed people on the island are civil servants. For a time it gained some status as a tax haven, but an illegal money laundering racket put paid to that.

Things don't look good in Nauru, with an average lifespan of only 60 years and the dubious honor of having the highest rate of type 2 diabetes in the world, it's neither accessible nor picturesque enough to sustain a tourist industry. It's now heavily dependent on aid from Australia, and is often regarded as a client State.

It's perhaps a rather cruel irony that it used to be called Pleasant Island.

3rd smallest independent country in the world, and its phosphate deposits were guano, literally birdsh1t.
Its population has also increased recently due to the refugee detention centre australia built there

retalivity · 29-12-2017 7:00pm

Zach Braff (JD from Scrubs) and Lauryn Hill (From the Fugees) were classmates and good friends, she even attended his Bar Mitzvah.
Al Gore and Tommy Lee Jones were roommates at college

DEFTLEFTHAND · 29-12-2017 7:27pm

Nauru is fascinating alright, theres a great doc about it on youtube. Tiny place which boomed in 60s and 70s with the phosphate.

Made no provisions for the future of course and suffered a big crash when the phosphate reserves were exhasted.

They make end meet these days by running an illegal immigration centre on the island for Australia.

ohnonotgmail · 29-12-2017 8:52pm

Grayson wrote: »

He was also taking a ridiculous amount of speed. It's thought that it might have driven him crazy, or even crazier than he already was since the drugs cause acute paranoia. And he wasn't the only one. Germany was on an intense binge at the time.

the germans gave their troops a ridiculous amount of speed during ww2

Capt'n Midnight · 29-12-2017 9:14pm

The World Bank will not be investing in fossil fuel exploration after 2019.

30-12-2017 2:03pm

Dr Jong Sung Kim of the Chungnam National University School of Medicine in South Korea studied the records of over 1750 Koreans with diverse drinking habits and found that (after adjusting for age, bmi, smoking, gender etc) people who are prone to facial flushing, or even just red blotches after a drink or two are at substantially greater risk of alcohol induced hypertension.

Flushers were determined to process the alcohol toxin acetaldehye less efficiently, leaving them prone to hypertension at lower levels of consumption to non-flushers. Flushers were prone to hypertension after four drinks compared to eight drinks in non flushers. It's more prevalent in Asians, women and the elderly.

If you go red in the face after a drink or two, take note.

steddyeddy · 30-12-2017 2:57pm

Candie wrote: »

Dr Jong Sung Kim of the Chungnam National University School of Medicine in South Korea studied the records of over 1750 Koreans with diverse drinking habits and found that (after adjusting for age, bmi, smoking, gender etc) people who are prone to facial flushing, or even just red blotches after a drink or two are at substantially greater risk of alcohol induced hypertension.

Flushers were determined to process the alcohol toxin acetaldehye less efficiently, leaving them prone to hypertension at lower levels of consumption to non-flushers. Flushers were prone to hypertension after four drinks compared to eight drinks in non flushers. It's more prevalent in Asians, women and the elderly.

If you go red in the face after a drink or two, take note.

You're dead right Candie. Just to add that the reason for the rapid build up of acetaldehyde is actually due to higher relative efficiency of the enzyme alcohol dehydrogenase that the majority of Asians posses.

It rapidly converts C2H5OH to to much more reactive C2H4O a lot faster than Europeans. Meaning some Asians don't even get a chance to experience the same alcohol buzz.

the purple tin · 30-12-2017 4:28pm

Grayson wrote: »

Except he was kind of a vegetarian. But not by choice. He suffered from a lot of flatulence. So his doctors told him to eat loads of boiled vegetables, including sprouts if I remember correctly. Strangly that didn't solve the problem
You are right that he loved a bit of german sausage ( ohhh matron) but he cut it out of his diet because his doctor told him to. He still took other meat products for "Health Reasons".

He was also taking a ridiculous amount of speed. It's thought that it might have driven him crazy, or even crazier than he already was since the drugs cause acute paranoia. And he wasn't the only one. Germany was on an intense binge at the time.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/may/02/i-had-an-intimate-knowledge-of-hitler-norman-ohler-blitzed

Editing to add, I found this great interview with the guy who's in the first link. Makes for an interesting read.
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/03/07/518986612/author-says-hitler-was-blitzed-on-cocaine-and-opiates-during-the-war

More Hitler trivia :pac: He liked to pretend that he had nothing whatsoever to do with women, he claimed he was 'married to the people' and kept his relationship with Eva Braun a secret. Despite being together for 15 years they only got married once Hitler knew his goose was cooked the day before their death.
He was also a serial cheater and several woman (8 I think) whom he had affairs with commited suicide because he treated them so badly. Braun tried to kill herself twice because of his womanising.

Kat1170 · 30-12-2017 4:49pm

Elvis never performed a single encore, so when he left, he wasn't coming back. Hence the phrase 'Elvis has left the building.' :cool::cool:

RiderOnTheStorm · 30-12-2017 7:53pm

As there is a movie coning out soon, called Entebbe, I looked it up, as I always remember it as The Raid on Entebbe.

Warning: movie spoilers!

Operation Entebbe was a hostage rescue mission carried out by commandos of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) at Entebbe Airport in Uganda on 4 July 1976. A week earlier, on 27 June, an Air France flight from Tel Aviv, with 248 passengers, had been hijacked by two members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and two members of the German Revolutionary Cells. The flight was diverted to Entebbe, the main airport of Uganda. The Ugandan government supported the hijackers. Over the following two days, 148 non-Israeli hostages were released and flown out to Paris. Ninety-four passengers, mainly Israeli, along with the 12-member Air France crew remained.

Israeli transport planes carried 100 commandos over 2,500 miles to Uganda for the rescue operation. The operation lasted 90 minutes. Of the remaining hostages, 102 were rescued. All the hijackers, three hostages, and forty-five Ugandan soldiers were killed. Five Israeli commandos were wounded and one was killed.

The commando that was killed was unit leader Yonatan Netanyahu. He was the older brother of Benjamin Netanyahu, the current Prime Minister of Israel.

New Home · 31-12-2017 5:07am

steddyeddy wrote: »

You're dead right Candie. Just to add that the reason for the rapid build up of acetaldehyde is actually due to higher relative efficiency of the enzyme alcohol dehydrogenase that the majority of Asians posses.

It rapidly converts C2H5OH to to much more reactive C2H4O a lot faster than Europeans. Meaning some Asians don't even get a chance to experience the same alcohol buzz.

Is it possible that non-Asian people who don't tolerate alcohol have the same enzyme, too?

md23040 · 31-12-2017 9:46am

We are approaching the time when the sun is at its nearest to the earth and rather than it being 152 million miles away it is 147 million miles out. There is 7% more sunlight hitting the earth presently than at the start of July.

The only reason it is not hotter in the northern hemisphere is because of the earth's tilt and the sun has to pass through considerably more atmosphere. If this was to occur in the summer a substantial part of the northern hemisphere would be uninhabitable.

The effect in the Southern hemisphere is significantly counteracted by the fact there is substantially more water to absorb the heat.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 31-12-2017 10:00am

md23040 wrote: »

We are approaching the time when the sun is at its nearest to the earth and rather than it being 152 million miles away it is 147 million miles out. There is 7% more sunlight hitting the earth presently than at the start of July.

The only reason it is not hotter in the northern hemisphere is because of the earth's tilt and the sun has to pass through considerably more atmosphere. If this was to occur in the summer a substantial part of the northern hemisphere would be uninhabitable.

The effect in the Southern hemisphere is significantly counteracted by the fact there is substantially more water to absorb the heat.

You might want to edit that. Those are the Kilometre figures, not the miles. (A bit like how the US botched the Mars landing)

Capt'n Midnight · 31-12-2017 1:03pm

Anders Shy Aircraft wrote: »

You might want to edit that. Those are the Kilometre figures, not the miles. (A bit like how the US botched the Mars landing)

One month ago the Russians had a failed launch recently.

Or rather the launch went OK but the final boost by the Fregat upper stage had been programmed for the other launch sites.

So instead of rotating enough to boost weather satellite Meteor-M2-1 and 18 others upwards to a higher orbit, it didn't.

VG31 · 02-01-2018 1:14am

2017 was the first year in the last 60 for there to not be a single death on a commercial jet aircraft.

There were only two fatal crashes involving commercial scheduled flights, both of which were turbo-prop aircraft.

the purple tin · 02-01-2018 2:12pm

Last year Bill Gates made $11.5 billion or over 9.5 bn euro.
Thats over 27.5 million euro a day.
Almost 20,000 euro every minute.

LirW · 02-01-2018 3:42pm

Some trivia from home for you:

The new Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, who's the youngest serving head of state in Europe at the age of 31, has no formal education. He dropped out of university when his political career took off. He only has the equivalent of the leaving cert going and didn't have a proper job or ever finished his course. This is a constant running gag back home.

The vice chancellor of the freedom party which is far at right wing, has no political education either but is a trained dental technician.

The former chancellor who got into the position in an election, resigned in 2016 had no real education either. He was a taxi driver before he started working as a bank clerk.

The same coalition was in place 10 years ago and left the country in huge financial distress. With the freedom party in power the People's party moved a lot further to the right. Because of the financial crash one bank found itself in incredible financial distress and since a few highly ranked politicians were somehow tied to them with their own business it was nationalised over night (literally!) and a few days later, when it crashed, it left the country with 18 billion Euro in debt.
Yet the same coalition was re-elected now, 10 years later, with a few people involved in it back then still in high ranks.
Memories are short.

Capt'n Midnight · 02-01-2018 11:44pm

the purple tin wrote: »

Last year Bill Gates made $11.5 billion or over 9.5 bn euro.
Thats over 27.5 million euro a day.
Almost 20,000 euro every minute.

If it took him more than 3 seconds to bend down and pick up a $1,000 he's financially better off to keep walking past it.

Ipso · 03-01-2018 1:00am

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

If it took him more than 3 seconds to bend down and pick up a $1,000 he's financially better off to keep walking past it.

Not really wouldn't he have made a $1,000 anyway of he stopped, it's not as if he's paid an hourly rate and gets deducted pay for stopping to pick up his money.

Quazzie · 03-01-2018 9:28am

Ipso wrote: »

Not really wouldn't he have made a $1,000 anyway of he stopped, it's not as if he's paid an hourly rate and gets deducted pay for stopping to pick up his money.

I think the better way to put it is, if he's walking around with a hole in his pocket and there is $300 falling out every single second, he's still making money.

the purple tin · 03-01-2018 11:38am

Characters on cereal boxes like Snap, Crackle and Pop and Tony the Tiger are usually drawn with their eyes looking downwards.
The reason being that when the box is up on the shelf Tony or whoever will seem to be looking directly down at a child and making eye contact. It's then more likely that the child will feel a bond with that character and ask the parent to buy them that brand of cereal.

valoren · 03-01-2018 11:49am

Next time you are browsing through a magazine or paper and come across an advertisement for a watch notice that the 'time' is set at ten past ten.

It is a common convention for watch adverts.
It keeps the hour and minute hands from overlapping and allows for the logo (frequently under the 12) to be prominently displayed.

The 10:10 position is symmetrical and is aesthetically pleasing it is claimed. It also has the visual aesthetic appeal of a 'smile', whereas the 8:20 time is a sad face. Our brains seemingly appreciate the orderliness of the 10:10 setting. It looks like a V. Vi is for Victory, accomplishment, winning as in hands in the air, a celebration etc all subtle visual clues.

Quazzie · 03-01-2018 11:52am

It must be awkward knowing that there are two times every day you can take photos for a watch advert

Kat1170 · 03-01-2018 12:43pm

Quazzie wrote: »

It must be awkward knowing that there are two times every day you can take photos for a watch advert

Can you imagine the quandary a photographer would be in if they were digital watches

Wibbs · 03-01-2018 12:48pm

They stuck with the same 10.08.42. Handily enough it is also a pleasing to our eye "time"

I bet you didnt know that

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