Today I Learned

[Janus]

If you want to get into a twist over pronunciation, try Wayne Newton's "Danke Schoen."

Danke schoen, darling, danke schoen
Thank you for all the joy and pain

A problem that arises when is comes to languages that are not native to you is that, not only do they have sounds that can be hard to properly form, they are sometimes even hard for your ear to distinguish, so you even hear it as the nearest equivalent in your language.

 

[DaveC426913]

TIL a CR2032 battery is 20mm in diameter and 3.2mm thick. A CR2025 is 2.5mm thick.

All CR batteries follow this naming convention.

 

[DaveC426913]

TIL:

 

[Borg]

Lol. I've been trying to figure out how to do something like that for years.

 

[BillTre]

 

[Hornbein]

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Helium is "abundant on Earth's surface"? He must mean the crust or something like that.

 

[DaveC426913]

Helium is "abundant on Earth's surface"?

 

[sbrothy]

... that the the site lacks a thread for general complaints and grievances (Not directed at the site itself mind, and with good reason because where would it stop?).

It's just that I like to learn by reading and more and more it seems like I'm forced to watch some kind of video.

Sorry for the rant. Nothing funny here.

PS: Oh yeah, and I'm bored.

 

[DaveC426913]

... that the the site lacks a thread for general complaints and grievances

There used to be a 'things that really bug you' thread.

Start a new one: "Things that should not be a thing in the 21st century".

- having 12 different clocks in my life, all of which tell a different time
- toasters that take, like, ten minutes to toast - my beard grows faster than that!

 

[sbrothy]

There used to be a 'things that really bug you' thread.

Start a new one: "Things that should not be a thing in the 21st century".

- having 12 different clocks in my life, all of which tell a different time
- toasters that take, like, ten minutes to toast - my beard grows faster than that!

Yeah, but no. I'm not going to be the guy who starts a trainwreck of that caliber!

EDIT: Although from your 2 examples I can see a good deal of comedy before it runs full power into Godwin's Law.

 

[BillTre]

 

[sbrothy]

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You must be joking.

 

[BillTre]

You must be joking.

Yeah. Meant for the lame joke thread.

 

[BillTre]

Here is a weird one:
I have heard of "Butt breathing" in hibernating water turtles when I was a kid (I had several pet turtles). They stay underwater when hibernating, their metabolic demands drop. Gas exchange through their intestinal epithelium can then fulfill their gas exchange needs.

This won an IgNobel Prize in 2024.
https://scienceblog.cincinnatichild...dea-from-2024-moves-closer-to-real-treatment/

 

[OmCheeto]

Here is a weird one:
I have heard of "Butt breathing" in hibernating water turtles when I was a kid (I had several pet turtles). They stay underwater when hibernating, their metabolic demands drop. Gas exchange through their intestinal epithelium can then fulfill their gas exchange needs.

...
This won an IgNobel Prize in 2024.
https://scienceblog.cincinnatichild...dea-from-2024-moves-closer-to-real-treatment/
...

I wonder how many covid lives this could have saved if such devices were mass produced. Seems rather simple, yet brilliant.
I wonder if they will win the Nobel Prize for their research. I think that would be a first: IgNobel and Nobel prizes for the same thing.

 

[DaveE]

Here is a weird one:
I have heard of "Butt breathing" in hibernating water turtles when I was a kid (I had several pet turtles). They stay underwater when hibernating, their metabolic demands drop. Gas exchange through their intestinal epithelium can then fulfill their gas exchange needs.

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This won an IgNobel Prize in 2024.
https://scienceblog.cincinnatichild...dea-from-2024-moves-closer-to-real-treatment/

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All they did was show that you could put unoxygenated perfluorocarbon liquid in someone's butt for 60 minutes without undo harm. No effectivity study yet (maybe in pigs?). Sounds great as a SM post but this is sooo not ready for prime time.

 

[Demystifier]

What was only Imaginary until recently, now is Real. That is, now I=R. Hence, an anagram of PUTIN is TRUNP.

 

[Hornbein]

The Wizard of Oz's name is Oscar Zoroaster Phadrig Isaac Norman Henkel Emmannuel Ambroise Diggs.

 

[symbolipoint]

The Wizard of Oz's name is Oscar Zoroaster Phadrig Isaac Norman Henkel Emmannuel Ambroise Diggs.

A search in DDG also confirms that.

 

[sbrothy]

.... that I have been the victim of a myth which goes that the reason the ancient Romans relied on a human slave economy was that they hadn't invented proper horse collars/halters, but simply threw a rope around the animals neck which obviously made it extremely ineffective for pulling, in effect asphyxiating itself.

Thinking about it it simply sounded too stupid. I think it's a fact that they didn't exactly perfect horseshoes but the truth is, I'm sure, more complex. Conquering other "countries" and kidnapping random people on the street was easy methods to swell the slave ranks in those times.

For those complaining about helicopter parents and children using too much screen time here is an interesting blog post. With no cure for Tetanus, no antibiotics and the extremely high infant mortality, it was hardly fun.

I also seem to remember more than one emperor having to sell their bodies as adolescents on their way towards power (Wasn't Julius Cæsar on of them?). Also, funny enough, the sexual morals in ancient Rome split more along the penetrator and the penetree, where the last was looked down upon.

What goes on in Japan I have no idea.

The reason I was thinking about it is that I had a conversation today about the human/horse use and the economy in Ancient Rome. I had to admit it was probably more complicated than I tried to make it.