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Off-Topic => Quizz, Fav TV, Fav Music, Fav Films, Books... => Topic started by: JessiCapri on March 23, 2021, 01:19:13 PM
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Did You Know...
The three black lines on school buses serve a purpose. The bottom line is the floor of the bus. The middle line is the seat line. The top black line is the top of the seats. These lines of the bus are reinforced, but they also let firefighters know where to cut in case of an accident.
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Did you know....
The phenomenon which causes glass to shatter when we pour boiling water into it is called thermal shock.
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Unfortunately, not all cups or vessels are suitable for handling hot liquids with ease.
Typical glass, in general, is not able to handle such heat very well. The reason is that as the glass heats, its density changes; it expands.
Pouring boiling water into a glass is highly likely to shatter it, because the hot water contacts part of the glass first, whereas other parts of the glass (such as the outside of the cup) remain cooler.
The glass thus does not expand as a whole, but is pulled in different directions as part of it expands and part does not; this difference produces the shattering.
But to stop the glass shattering just ... put spoon in it, then pour in the boiling hot water.
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It really does work and such a simple idea.
So enjoy your Irish Cream Coffees without fear.
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The helmet behind the bike on the roadside is the international "sign of distress" that biker needs help!
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Rocker Jon Bon Jovi owns a restaurant with no prices on the menu, which allows guests to work in exchange for their meals. The Soul Kitchen Community Restaurant is located in Red Bank, New Jersey and is a non-profit restaurant run by the Jon Bon Jovi Soul Foundation. It offers community seating and a menu without prices.
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Grapes light on fire in the microwave.
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Back in 2011, a physicist at the University of Sydney went viral after he placed a grape in the microwave and filmed the fiery aftermath.
And oddly enough, scientists couldn't explain the phenomenon until quite recently. A March 2019 study published in Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences reported that the fruity fireball occurs as a result of the loose electrons and ions that cluster to form plasma
when grapes get hot.
Watch
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"THEY" say it's nothing to do with the guns. That it is all about mental health. Yet they do NOTHING to treat mental health. "They" say enforce laws we have on the books already. In response the governor of Iowa signed an executive order just last week that eliminated the need to have fire arms registered. In order to have a registered fire arm a background check must be passed.
Remember this the next time you wish to travel to the USA.
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The longest place name in the world is 85 letters long.
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Unfortunately, this is one of the facts you probably can't repeat to your friends—and that's because it's nearly impossible to pronounce.
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu is in New Zealand and is 85 letters long.
And when it comes to other super long place names, it's followed by
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch in Wales,
Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg in the U.S.,
Tweebuffelsmeteenskootmorsdoodgeskietfontein in South Africa, and
Azpilicuetagaraycosaroyarenberecolarre in Spain.
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There was a prehistoric dragonfly that's wings spanned more than two feet.
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More than 300 million years ago, the Meganeura established itself as the largest known flying insect to ever exist on Earth. The dragonfly-like creature had a wingspan that stretched around 2.5 feet. The bugs were also big enough to hunt prey like frogs and newts, which it could eat with its teeth-like mandibles.
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Watch here:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNepEAWZH0TBu7dkxIbluDw
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In April, of 2018, the state of Louisiana held a vote to make having sex with animals in the state of Louisiana illegal. The law passed with a vote of 25 - 10.
The 10 senators – all Republican – who voted against the bill were senate president John Alario, Brett Allain, Dan Claitor, Jack Donahue, Jim Fannin, Ryan Gatti, Gerald Long, Beth Mizell, Jonathan Perry and Neil Riser.
When visiting Louisiana make sure to keep your dog on a leash.
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Bubble wrap was originally invented as wallpaper.
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If you can't wait to pop every air-filled pocket the minute you pull a piece of bubble wrap out of a package, can you imagine how irresistible it would be if it were covering your walls? Engineer Al Fielding and Swiss inventor Marc Chavannes probably didn't consider that when, in 1957, they invented bubble wrap while trying to create a textured wallpaper by sealing two shower curtains together to trap air bubbles.
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Did you know... If a dog is scared of thunder a scarf can be tied around its body to give a sense of security. This is a most useful trick. It will also work if the dog is scared of the noise of fire crackers, or if you live in Florida, or other war zones, gun fire.
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There's a Starbucks cup in every shot in the movie Fight Club.
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It's not quite true that there's a Starbucks on every single corner in every major city. But there does happen to be a Starbucks cup in every scene in the 1999 movie Fight Club starring Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, and Helena Bonham Carter. The cup's appearance was reportedly inspired by a line in the film, when Norton's character explains, "When deep space exploration ramps up, it'll be the corporations that name everything, the IBM Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks."
You can view all of the cups on this comprehensive Tumblr page.
https://fightclubstarbucks.tumblr.com/
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Shakespeare invented more than 1,700 words.
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Shakespeare wrote some of the most beloved and revered pieces of literature the world has ever known, but in order to craft his plays and poems, he sometimes resorted to making up his own words. In fact, The Bard is said to have come up with more than 1,700 words including moonbeam, laughable, eyeball, bump, puking, champion, bedroom, excitement, and zany.
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The saying “fly off the handle” originates from the 1800s.
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It’s a saying that refers to cheap axe-heads flying off their handles when swung backward before a chop.
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Thomas Edison didn’t invent most of the stuff he patented.
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It’s fair to say that Edison was one of the world’s most notorious intellectual property thieves.
Of the 1,093 things he smashed a patent on, he stole near enough most of them off real geniuses like Nikola Tesla, Wilhelm Rontgen, and Joseph Swan – the latter of whom originally invented the lightbulb!
Nikola Tesla, (born July 9/10, 1856, Smiljan, Austrian Empire [now in Croatia]—died January 7, 1943, New York, New York, U.S.), Serbian American inventor and engineer who discovered and patented the rotating magnetic field, the basis of most alternating-current machinery.
Wilhelm Roentgen, Professor of Physics in Wurzburg, Bavaria, discovered X-rays in 1895—accidentally—while testing whether cathode rays could pass through glass.
Joseph Swan, in full Sir Joseph Wilson Swan, (born October 31, 1828, Sunderland, Durham, England—died May 27, 1914, Warlingham, Surrey), English physicist and chemist who produced an early electric lightbulb and invented the dry photographic plate, an important improvement in photography
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The average mammal takes 21 seconds to empty its bladder.
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No one will blame you if you've never bothered to time yourself on the toilet. But you may be interested to know that researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology found that most mammals weighing more than six pounds take 21 seconds to pee. According to Live Science, this oddly consistent time is due to the fact that the urethra is "appropriately scaled" to be a "flow-enhancing device." And apparently, the perfectly enhanced flow takes 21 seconds to complete.
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Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Ceres
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
Pluto
Haumea
Makemake
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RAINBOW COLOURS
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The top speed of the winning car in the first U.S. race was seven miles per hour.
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Frank Duryea reached a top speed of 7 mph when he raced the second car he had ever built with his brother, Charles, on Thanksgiving Day, November 27, 1895. The Chicago-Times Herald sponsored race featured a 54-mile course that ran from downtown Chicago to Evanston and back.
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It's illegal to own just one guinea pig in Switzerland.
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Guinea pigs are social animals that prefer the companionship of another guinea pig. That's why it's illegal to own just one of the little critters in Switzerland. Thankfully, if one of your fuzzy pets passes away and you're not ready to commit to another, Switzerland also allows you to rent a guinea pig for your remaining pet.
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There's a planet that's shaped like a potato.
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Not every celestial object has a shape that's as perfectly majestic as planet Earth. In fact, some of them are downright hilarious to look at. Take Haumea, for example. This dwarf planet is cool for a number of reasons. About the same size as Pluto, Haumea orbits the sun beyond Neptune and has rings similar to Jupiter. But what makes this object even more interesting is that it's shaped like a potato.
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It only takes six minutes for alcohol to affect your brain.
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Just one drink can quickly go to your head, whether you feel it or not. Researchers at Heidelberg University Hospital found that just six minutes after consuming alcohol, changes are already taking place in the brain. So even if you don't feel tipsy right away, you're definitely not totally sober either.
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"Q" is the only letter that doesn't appear in any U.S. state name.
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Q is the only letter that doesn't appear in any U.S. state name, from Alabama to Wyoming and everything in between.
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King Tut owned a dagger from outer space.
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King Tutankhamun had lots of cool toys, but one of his most intriguing may have been a dagger, discovered in his tomb in 1925, made of meteoric metal. It wasn't until recently that scientists were able to confirm the material, using a technique called portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometry. They determined that the dagger's composition of iron, nickel, and cobalt "strongly suggests an extraterrestrial origin."
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The iron blade of an ornate dagger buried with Egypt’s King Tutankhamen in the 14th century B.C. likely came from a fallen meteorite.
The blade’s composition of iron, nickel and cobalt “strongly suggests an extraterrestrial origin.” and is nearly identical to the composition of a meteor found in the seaport city of Marsa Matruh, 150 miles west of Alexandria, Egypt.
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One man survived both the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and then later Nagasaki.
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Tsutomu Yamaguchi was a 29-year-old Naval Engineer on a three-month business trip to Hiroshima. On August 6, 1945, the Enola Gay dropped its atomic payload on the city.
Yamaguchi was less than 2 miles from ground zero and was thrown into a potato patch.
He survived the blast and was able to make a perilous journey through the devastated city to the railway station.
Here, on August 7th, he boarded a train on an overnight ride to his hometown of Nagasaki.
On the morning of August 9th, he was with some colleagues in an office building when another boom split the sound barrier. A flash of white light filled the sky.
Yamaguchi emerged from the wreckage with only minor injuries on top of his current injuries.
He had survived two nuclear blasts in two days.
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In 2006, a Coca-Cola employee offered to sell Coca-Cola secrets to Pepsi. Pepsi responded by notifying Coca-Cola.
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