Today I Learned

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Today I learned that cleaning a white hat can be done with bleach cleaner, but it’s important to rinse it before wearing it again. I also discovered that "oyster veneering," a woodworking technique from the late 1600s, is experiencing a minor revival despite its labor-intensive nature. Additionally, I learned that the factorial of 23 (23!) equals 25,852,016,738,884,976,640,000, which interestingly has 23 digits, a unique coincidence among factorials. I found out that medical specialists often spend less than 10 minutes with patients, and that watching TV can contribute to weight gain. Other insights included the fact that a kiss can transfer around 80 million microbes, and that bureaucracy can sometimes hinder employment opportunities. The discussion also touched on various trivia, such as the emotional sensitivity of barn owls and the complexities of gravitational lensing around black holes.
  • #401
The mango is the national fruit of India, Pakistan, and the Philippines, and the national tree of Bangladesh.
Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mango

I didn't know that. I found that out while looking for an article on Kesar Mangos.

I love mango juice and fresh mango fruit. I'm also fond of guava and papaya.
"Kesar" Mango is the queen of mangoes widely grown in the Gujarat state of India.It has a unique sweet taste. Kesar is characterised by its golden color with green overtones. The fruit is slightly smaller compared to the Alphonso variety. Savani farms offers very best of Kesar naturally ripened fruit products as "Queen Kesar"
Ref: https://www.savanifarms.com/
 
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I loved the Mango with dried danggit fish breakfast in the Philippines.
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nsaspook said:
I loved the Mango with dried danggit fish breakfast in the Philippines.

Do you eat the eyeballs?
 
  • #404
lisab said:
Do you eat the eyeballs?

Yes, everything but the larger bones. It's fried 'very' crispy so you add a little fish sauce to it and maybe some Bagoong alamang (shrimp paste) on green mango and rice. It keeps the mosquitoes away.
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I lived in Cabilao Bohol during the 80's with my wife (Her family owned a small farm there) . No utilities for fancy breakfast but it was about the most beautiful place in the world (Once the terrorists were eliminated).

cabilao loon bohol philippines
 
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Ancient Egyptian Hangover Cure
http://news.discovery.com/history/a...als-ancient-egyptian-hangover-cure-150422.htm
Trying to ease a bad hangover? Wearing a necklace made from the leaves of a shrub called Alexandrian laurel would do the job, according to a newly translated Egyptian papyrus.

The “drunken headache cure” appears in a 1,900-year-old text written in Greek and was discovered during the ongoing effort to translate more than half a million scraps of papyrus known as the Oxyrhynchus Papyri.
 
  • #406
Greg Bernhardt said:
Today I learned that "chasing the dragon" is slang for smoking heroin.

O-O
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Aaah!
 
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Claim: GM, Ford, And Others Want to Make Working on Your Own Car Illegal
https://www.yahoo.com/autos/s/gm-ford-others-want-working-own-car-illegal-160000229.html
What GM, and even tractor companies like John Deere, argues is that you, as an owner, don’t actually own your car. Rather, you’re sort of just borrowing it for an extended amount of time and paying for the rights to use the technology. If it sounds ridiculous— it is. But it gets even more ludicrous.

According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, John Deere argued that “letting people modify car computer systems will result in them pirating music through the on-board entertainment system.”

That’s right— pirating music. Through a tractor.
Seriously?
 
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  • #410
I can sort of understand sensitivity to hackers tweaking stuff and OEM getting sued when a hacked computer disables the brakes.

There's a lesson in the "Tower of Babel" story , it's about diminishing returns.
Look at the IT industry.
Does anyone think our tongues have not been confused ?

I'm keeping my '68 F100, thank you.
 
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Today I learned that my bank balance was less than I expected because for some reason my electric bill was more than I had anticipated.
 
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Astronuc said:
Claim: GM, Ford, And Others Want to Make Working on Your Own Car Illegal
https://www.yahoo.com/autos/s/gm-ford-others-want-working-own-car-illegal-160000229.html

Seriously?
Lexmark put chips with some kind of encrypted serial number on printer cartidges. Their printers would then only accept official cartridges. It got reverse engineered, of course, and they tried to sue under the "technical protection" clause of the DMCA - arguing that their serial number was a creative work protectable by copyright...
 
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Today I learned a yellow fin tuna moves at 55 mph at top speed and a sailfish is as fast as a cheetah.
 
  • #414
Milkandcarrots said:
...a sailfish is as fast as a cheetah.
Not on land.
 
  • #415
Astronuc said:
Claim: GM, Ford, And Others Want to Make Working on Your Own Car Illegal
https://www.yahoo.com/autos/s/gm-ford-others-want-working-own-car-illegal-160000229.html

Seriously?
I hope there's a statute of limitations on such things.
I reupholstered the seats on one of my cars back in 1980. :devil:

ps. I've been discussing William Shatner's $30 billion California water problem idea for about a week on Facebook.
Today, I ran across the last piece of the puzzle:
Om on FB said:
Summary of the below article*: The Carlsbad project will supply 7% of San Diego's water, at a construction cost of $1 billion.

So $14.3 billion would supply all their needs.
San Diego's population: 1.3 million
California's population: 38.8 million
Interpolated cost: $427 billion
Not counting the $50 billion annual cost of operation, which, if you can multiply :oldeyes: , comes out to $1 trillion dollars over the next 10 years.

*{below article}

I was going to start a thread about it here, but it had so many peculiar angles to it, that, I decided to wait.
 
  • #416
TILT I like to have a challenging job although it might be really hard for me...
 
  • #417
OmCheeto said:
ps. I've been discussing William Shatner's $30 billion California water problem idea for about a week on Facebook.
Today, I ran across the last piece of the puzzle:

I was going to start a thread about it here, but it had so many peculiar angles to it, that, I decided to wait.

If they just recycled waste water instead of dumping it into the ocean the amount they need to generate directly from sea water would be much less. It's less costly (but still expensive) to convert sewage into drinking water than salt-water.
 
  • #418
nsaspook said:
If they just recycled waste water instead of dumping it into the ocean the amount they need to generate directly from sea water would be much less. It's less costly (but still expensive) to convert sewage into drinking water than salt-water.


Someone named "puf..." started a thread on the topic very recently. Perhaps we should discuss this there. :angel:

[edit] But thanks for the link. I recorded all relevant data; "Frustratists: Politicians are stupid and don't listen to the optimists." :biggrin:
 
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zoobyshoe said:
Milkandcarrots said:
...a sailfish is as fast as a cheetah.
Not on land.
Not in the sea either.

Today I learned Hubble was launched 25 years ago.
 
  • #420
Today I learned that no one has compiled statistics on the fastest fish on land.
 
  • #421
Google finds a page "The Fastest Fish on Land", which claims the mudskipper would hold that record.
 
  • #424
TIL that the first Flash gained his powers by inhaling the 'deadly' fumes of hard water. Comics had low standards back in the golden age...
Are mudskippers fast because of their prolonged exposure to hard water too?
 
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Enigman said:
Are mudskippers fast because of their prolonged exposure to hard water too?
There's no claim made at that link that they're fast, much less "the fastest fish on land." In fact, when I tried, google did not provide a link to any page that addressed the question.
 
  • #426
Today I learned that, of all the arts, poetry is the second most despised. At least, that is the claim made by a poet who came up to me at a cafe this morning and started a conversation, intrigued that I was doing a drawing of Edgar Allan Poe.

What, then, do you suppose the most despised art is?
 
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zoobyshoe said:
Today I learned that, of all the arts, poetry is the second most despised. At least, that is the claim made by a poet who came up to me at a cafe this morning and started a conversation, intrigued that I was doing a drawing of Edgar Allan Poe.

What, then, do you suppose the most despised art is?
Not really their disrespect, maybe it's just their ignorance and negligence. Attitude toward the subject matter varies upon individuals, cultures and cultural norms.
 
  • #428
zoobyshoe said:
What, then, do you suppose the most despised art is?
advertising.
 
  • #429
jim hardy said:
advertising.
Afraid not.

What I learned today is that Opera is the most despised of the arts.
 
  • #430
zoobyshoe said:
Afraid not.

What I learned today is that Opera is the most despised of the arts.
Opera might be bad but poetry is verse.
 
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  • #431
Enigman said:
Opera might be bad but poetry is verse.

We definitely have a serious pundemic on our hands...
 
  • #432
Enigman said:
Opera might be bad but poetry is verse.
and so delightful.
"What medicine else can cure the fits
Of lovers when they lose their wits?
Love is a boy by poets styled
Then spare the rod and spoil the child."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudibras
 
  • #434
zoobyshoe said:
Afraid not.

What I learned today is that Opera is the most despised of the arts.
Today I learned that some opera isn't too bad.

 
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lisab said:
Today I learned that some opera isn't too bad.


Quod Erat Demonstratum.
 
  • #436
Today I learned why gardening in the front yard is illegal in many places.

As I was potting 3 tomato plants in the front yard, I discovered that Nanonesians are better than TV.
 
  • #437
Today I learned there are 842 lbs of moon rocks on earth.
 
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Today I learned that the volume of a 10 dimensional cube with a edge length of 5 centimeters is going to be 48 million(48,000,000)cm^10.
 
  • #439
Today I learned (again) how annoying a broken DNS server is. Including the inability to look for other DNS servers.
 
  • #442
OmCheeto said:
Just wait until ...
Argh!


"Windows troubleshooter is unable to locate the problem"
so is help desk.

okay, fine...
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  • #443
jim hardy said:
today i learned a new concept - dns server
http://www.circleid.com/posts/20090408_why_dns_is_broken_part_1_trust/good grief - and we rely on this stuff?
Some of the things you only care about when it is broken.
Turned out to be more complicated, the DNS server was certainly part of the problem but my general internet connection has other issues as well (using a different one now).
 
  • #444
Austin (in Texas) is known for some weirdness, but . . .

That started Monday when a public briefing by the Army in Bastrop County, which is just east of Austin, got raucous. The poor U.S. Army colonel probably just thought he was going to give a regular briefing, but instead 200 patriots shouted him down, told him was a liar and grilled him about the imminent federal takeover of Texas and subsequent imposition of martial law.
. . . .
The idea that the Yankee military can't be trusted down here has a long and rich history in Texas. But that was a while back. Abbott's proclamation that he was going to keep his eye on these Navy SEAL and Green Beret boys did rub some of our leaders the wrong way.
. . . .
"Your letter pandering to idiots ... has left me livid," former State Rep. Todd Smith wrote Gov. Abbott. "I am horrified that I have to choose between the possibility that my Governor actually believes this stuff and the possibility that my Governor doesn't have the backbone to stand up to those who do."
http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpoli...ys-national-guard-to-stave-off-obama-takeover
 
  • #445
Alex299792458 said:
Today I learned that the volume of a 10 dimensional cube with a edge length of 5 centimeters is going to be 48 million(48,000,000)cm^10.

Would you care to explain how, or is it time for one of us to relearn something? I make that number to be about 5^11, not 5^10.
 
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  • #447
From USGS - Harrison (Jack) Schmitt is the only USGS geologist to do field work on another planetary body.

As a member of the Apollo 17 party, he was able to conduct field surveys on the moon.
 

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