Little known facts

[gsdx]

Nouns ending in 'us' of Greek origin become 'uses'. Hippopotamus becomes 'hippopotamuses'.
Nouns ending in 'us' of Latin origin become 'i'. Cactus becomes 'cacti'.

'Octopus' can be either 'octopuses' or 'octopi', depending upon you consider it to be of Greek or Modern Latin origin.

 

[belamyi]

Barcelona is the EU city with the higher cannabis concentration in its wastewater system.

 

[belamyi]

A classic

 

[Kulindahr]

A classic

In Eastern Oregon and neighboring Idaho you can do Paris, Rome, Moscow, and Warsaw, in one day. Berlin is a bit father.

 

[Kulindahr]

I've learned that unless you're rich enough to spend $20,000 on a puppy there isn't much help in the U.S. for finding a puppy to be a service dog.

 

[belamyi]

I've learned that unless you're rich enough to spend $20,000 on a puppy there isn't much help in the U.S. for finding a puppy to be a service dog.

Indeed.

 

[belamyi]

In 2018, it rained in Barcelona more than in London, doubling the annual average (around 600 mm) yet, at the same time, that year there were also more sunshine hours than average (around 2,500).

In March 2022, BCN had less sunshine hours than London, while still experiencing record-breaking drought levels.

 

[Araucaria]

^Hmm, maybe you should consider moving to London...?

 

[belamyi]

^Hmm, maybe you should consider moving to London...?

You do insist on trying to keep me thin, do you.

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London is like BCN: a splendid city for spending your holidays or spare times... but I am not fleeing one trap to fall in a worse one


In any case, what would be the point: bad weather is already here... even hos are not worth moving down there.

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

Re: Little know facts

Shakespeare made up the name “Jessica” for his play Merchant of Venice.

I knew that.

My mother said I would be named Jessica if I had been a girl.

Also Jessa Reed used to be called 'Jessica' as a girl.

Found out about Jessica because I thought the name might have been Biblical, but it was nowhere in the Bible.

 

[belamyi]

March 2022 has been the cloudiest March in BCN since March 1968: 12 days of overcast skies.

 

[belamyi]

Whenever it snows in BCN, it is almost always with over-0ºC temperatures... like last Saturday.

The snowflakes originate at temperatures below zero, then they find warmer but extremely dry air as they approach ground level, which starts a process of sublimation, implying heat loss through the absortion of the energy of the surrounding medium and, therefore, cooling of the flakes.

 

[Araucaria]

Whenever it snows in BCN, it is almost always with over-0ºC temperatures... like last Saturday.

The snowflakes originate at temperatures below zero, then they find warmer but extremely dry air as they approach ground level, which starts a process of sublimation, implying heat loss through the absortion of the energy of the surrounding medium and, therefore, cooling of the flakes.

The only time it ever snowed in West Palm Beach, FL, on January 19, 1977, the official low temperature that morning was 34 degrees F/2 degrees C, as flurries were flying. So snow falling at temperatures slightly above freezing is probably a common occurrence.

 

[belamyi]

^ Concrete "slightly": 2ºC? 5ºC? 9ºC? Such have been the cases during the past decades in BCN.

 

[Kulindahr]

Over half the bones in a human body are in our hands and feet.

 

[Alistair]

There are 6,670,903,752,021,072,936,960 possible solvable Sudoku grids that yield a unique result (that's 6 sextillion, 670 quintillion, 903 quadrillion, 752 trillion, 21 billion, 72 million, 936 thousand, 960 in case you were wondering). That's way more than the number of stars in the universe.

 

[smokeshadow]

Over half the bones in a human body are in our hands and feet.

And, the hyoid bone in the throat is the only bone in the body that isn't directly attached to any other bone

 

[Kyanimal]

That's way more than the number of stars in the universe.

... And we know that how?

 

[belamyi]

There are 6,670,903,752,021,072,936,960 possible solvable Sudoku grids that yield a unique result (that's 6 sextillion, 670 quintillion, 903 quadrillion, 752 trillion, 21 billion, 72 million, 936 thousand, 960 in case you were wondering). That's way more than the number of stars in the universe.

Right, but do those possibilities REALLY exist?

 

[Alistair]

... And we know that how?

The answer is an absolutely astounding number. There are approximately 200 billion trillion stars in the universe. Or, to put it another way, 200 sextillion.

That’s 200,000,000,000,000,000,000,000!

So the person was off a little. Probably meant Galaxy.