Little known facts

[Bill1954]

Re: Little know facts

"Each day, there are over 120 million acts of sexual intercourse taking place all over the world." - Botham, Noel. The Mega Book of Useless Information

If left alone, 70% of birthmarks gradually fade away. (Can't find a source for that one) I bet that character from Hawthorne's short story about a birthmark would feel like a real dick knowing that one.

A credible neuroscientist claimed that the suprachiasmatic nucleus of the hypothalamus has synapses from projections that receive input from photoreceptors in the human back. I have never found evidence to support that claim, and the man was too intimidating for me to ask after the lecture.

Does that include masturbation?

 

[belamyi]

That's 110,801,000 people. That's hard to believe.

Not harder to believe than the fact that most of the US is empty, because people prefer to live close to coastal areas (big lakes included in that), and most of the territory are big planes bound to be wasted by tornadoes. Hurricanes in Florida are some sort of exception for Floridians.

Barcelona is the Catalonian municipality having suffered more episodes of flooding than any other: 113 since 1900.

 

[Bill1954]

Very interesting!

 

[Araucaria]

Barcelona is the Catalonian municipality having suffered more episodes of flooding than any other: 113 since 1900.

Hmm, that works out to be about one flood a year. How do these floods occur? Is it due to torrential downpours, or the periodic overwashing of the Mediterranean? Are Barcelonans reluctant to build on higher ground, or what?

And why do I get a picture of Belamo standing in (knee deep? waist deep? chest deep?) water, typing away on his computer, desperately trying to avoid electrocution in the process?

 

[belamyi]

Hmm, that works out to be about one flood a year. How do these floods occur? Is it due to torrential downpours, or the periodic overwashing of the Mediterranean? Are Barcelonans reluctant to build on higher ground, or what?

And why do I get a picture of Belamo standing in (knee deep? waist deep? chest deep?) water, typing away on his computer, desperately trying to avoid electrocution in the process?

I did not say they are a problem now, only that they used to be a huge problem until fairly recently, last great ones in the 1990s, before the great underground reservoirs were built: now that we are prepared for the past, the future is starting to become worrying

Els dipòsits d'aigües pluvials de Barcelona, contra el canvi climàtic

A Barcelona hi ha 13 dipòsits pluvials que s'encarreguen de retenir l'aigua de la pluja per evitar que hi hagi inundacions i impedir que l'aigua bruta arribi al mar.

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[belamyi]

Barcelona, un cas d’èxit en la gestió de les inundacions pluvials

Un estudi situa la ciutat de Barcelona com un cas d’èxit en la gestió de les inundacions gràcies a la construcció de diversos dipòsits de retenció d’aigües pluvials.

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Googversion

A study places the city of Barcelona as a success story in the management of rain floods. The article, published in the journal 'Nature', compares the episode of September 21, 1995 and September 6, 2018, as well as the droughts recorded in the periods 1986-1989 and 2004-2008. In the case of the Catalan capital, he points out that following the floods of 1996, the city promoted a plan that culminated in the construction of 15 rainwater retention tanks and the improvement of the entire prevention and management system floods.

 

[belamyi]

And why do I get a picture of Belamo standing in (knee deep? waist deep? chest deep?) water, typing away on his computer, desperately trying to avoid electrocution in the process?

Because you are trying to find just any possible way to get it up back again

 

[pornoboy]

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[Alistair]

 

[cityboy-stl]

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I remember this!

 

[gsdx]

Proprioception (a.k.a. Kinesthesia) is your ability to sense movement and location without thinking about it. It's present in every muscle action you make. It's what allows you to close your eyes and touch the tip of your nose with the tip of your finger. (That's why it's such an effective test for judging blood/alcohol level.) Without Proprioception, you wouldn't be able to move without thinking about how to do it.

 

[Kulindahr]

That's 110,801,000 people. That's hard to believe.

Found a source. For starters, here's the circle:




It's got the entire "Bos-Wash" area that is effectively one megalopolis, Chicago, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Indianapolis, most of Louisville, plus environs; in fact six of the top twelve most populous states are almost entirely included.
Keeping that in mind, compare with a map of U.S. population density:

Using this: https://mcdc.missouri.edu/applications/capsACS.html

It comes out to 116,263,000 people.

 

[Kulindahr]

Just for fun I put in the coordinates of my house -- within 500 miles there are 18,128,000 people.

 

[belamyi]

This year, Barcelona is registering the longest season of tropical nights (lows above 20ºC/68ºF) on record: 153 so far.

 

[Peloso]

This year, Barcelona is registering the longest season of tropical nights (lows above 20ºC/68ºF) on record: 153 so far.

I can't imagine what could be causing that.

 

[belamyi]

I can't imagine what could be causing that.

Vannie's cabbage Krakatoa.

 

[gsdx]

'Potpourri' originally referred to a pot of food which smelt rotten but was still quite edible. Over time, the word came to refer to the pleasant-smelling flowers which disguised the 'rotten meat' smell.

 

[belamyi]

'Potpourri' originally referred to a pot of food which smelt rotten but was still quite edible. Over time, the word came to refer to the pleasant-smelling flowers which disguised the 'rotten meat' smell.

 

[Kulindahr]

Police in the U.S. shoot and kill more people in a week than the U.K. does in a year.

 

[belamyi]

The oompa-loompa eruption last January might have contributed to this year's record high temperatures, including the five-months-and-a-half (probably six) summer in BCN.

L'erupció del volcà Hunga Tonga hauria pogut contribuïr a la calor desbocada i persistent d'aquest 2022

Una gran erupció amb conseqüències climàtiques i que persistirà durant anys

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