Little known facts

[smokeshadow]

The 3 black, horizontal metal trim pieces that run down the sides of all those bright yellow school buses do serve a purpose. In case of an accident, they give first responders the exact location of the floor of the bus, the seat level of the bus and the top or head of the back of the seats

 

[Rand]

King James I of the UK (and VI of Scotland) of the King James Bible fame, was at least, a bi-sexual. One of his lovers had a portrait done by Ruben:


His lover the King made him the 1st Duke of Buckingham. In a letter to Buckingham, the king said: "I desire to live only in this world for your sake, and that I had rather live banished in any part of the earth with you than live a sorrowful widow’s life without you. And may so God bless you, my sweet child and wife, and grant that ye may ever be a comfort to your dear dad and husband.”

 

[pornoboy]

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[gsdx]

^ Also, the head starts twisting first, then the body from shoulders to hips. Otherwise the dog would fall down.

 

[Kulindahr]

One in six people have brain "wiring" that isn't capable of automatically telling right from left -- they have to devise ways to remember it!

This leads to one of the most common medical mistakes: operating on or treating the wrong side of a patient's body when the condition is not visually evident.

Why some people can't tell left from right

It can seem like an almost childish mistake, but a surprising number of adults confuse left from right and scientists are only just starting to understand why.

www.bbc.com

 

[Kulindahr]

The 3 black, horizontal metal trim pieces that run down the sides of all those bright yellow school buses do serve a purpose. In case of an accident, they give first responders the exact location of the floor of the bus, the seat level of the bus and the top or head of the back of the seats

They're also structural: they are also rails which add strength to the sides of the bus, making the occupied section stronger than the rest of the bus sides.

I know of two instances when those black rails made the difference between a bus crumpling and bending, versus staying straight, one when a bus on a muddy road slid sideways and struck a tree and one when a farm vehicle struck a bus from the side. In the first one, without those rails a dozen kids would have likely been tossed into a river and a half dozen would have been crushed, and in the second one a half dozen kids could have been crushed.

 

[gsdx]

How many tentacles does an octopus have? Eight? Wrong. It has no tentacles. It has eight 'arms'. Tentacles are arms which have suction cups only at their tips.

Octopus suction cups will not stick to itself. It would be most inconvenient if they did.

 

[pornoboy]

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[gsdx]

^ Very potent and thought-provoking.

 

[gsdx]

Saturn isn't the only planet in our solar system with rings. All four gas planets have rings. The reason Saturn's rings are so visible is that they are made of ice, so they're highly reflective. The rings of Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune are made of rock and less visible.

Uranus actually 'rolls around the Sun' on its side, as do its rings.

Venus rotates backwards (anticlockwise) compared to all of the other planets. It also rotates so slowly that its day is longer than its year.

 

[Kulindahr]

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This reminds me I read an article yesterday about a German guy who'd been a guard at Auschwitz who had refused all his life to say anything about it. Then one day he encountered some Holocaust deniers and it was just too much for the former Nazi; he practically exploded and lectured them with his experiences -- taking valuables from new inmates to feed Nazi need for wealth for the war, directing inmates to "showers" he knew quite well weren't showers at all because he had to help remove the bodies, and on and on

It put those deniers in their place, but unfortunately publicly admitting all that he had done got him arrested and sentenced.

 

[pornoboy]

^ Very potent and thought-provoking.

If you ever saw the movie "Son of Saul" ( won an Oscar in 2016 ) you know what it means
and that there is no god above us - no heaven - only sky.

 

[gsdx]

^ Never saw the movie, but on Armistice Day when I was in high school in the sixties, we used to watch actual holocaust documentaries. Sixty years later, I can still see the soldiers carrying wasted and skeletal bodies by their arms and legs and tossing them unceremoniously into huge pits where they landed on countless other victims.

I don't need to see a Hollywood version.

 

[Kulindahr]

^ Never saw the movie, but on Armistice Day when I was in high school in the sixties, we used to watch actual holocaust documentaries. Sixty years later, I can still see the soldiers carrying wasted and skeletal bodies by their arms and legs and tossing them unceremoniously into huge pits where they landed on countless other victims.

I don't need to see a Hollywood version.

I don't know if it was on a specific day, but I remember watching "The Twisted Cross" every year from third grade to ninth.

 

[pornoboy]

^ Never saw the movie, but on Armistice Day when I was in high school in the sixties, we used to watch actual holocaust documentaries. Sixty years later, I can still see the soldiers carrying wasted and skeletal bodies by their arms and legs and tossing them unceremoniously into huge pits where they landed on countless other victims.

I don't need to see a Hollywood version.

no Hollywood version that is but an hungarian film based on a true story...

 

[gsdx]

RKO, the movie studio once owned by Howard Hughes, stood for Radio Keith Orpheum.

 

[smokeshadow]

3M, the company that manufacturers Scotch tape, means Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing

JVC, the audio company, stands for Japan Victor Company

 

[gsdx]

January 31, 2023: The last ever Boeing 747 built is being delivered to the client today.

 

[Kulindahr]

January 31, 2023: The last ever Boeing 747 built is being delivered to the client today.

That's at the Everett plant. My sister-in-law works there and we got a special tour once. What was amazing was the descriptions of how the construction process had changed over the years, with enough differences that in effect they rebuilt the entire facility at least twice.

All but one of my most memorable air flights were on a 747.

 

[gsdx]

Barcodes, UPC codes, and QR codes all grew out of Morse Code.