I bet you didnt know that

Skylinehead

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Ben Nevis at 1,345m is the Highest montain in the UK

Except it's not.

Mount Hope is 3,239m. But there's some question as to whether it's really in the UK so probably safer to say Mount Paget at 2,935m

Neither are in the UK though :P

The human clavicle is so named because it's shape is reminiscent of the shape of Roman door keys, or clavicula.

Esel

Candie wrote: »

The human clavicle is so named because it's shape is reminiscent of the shape of Roman door keys, or clavicula.

From Wikipedia:

"It receives its name from the Latin: clavicula ("little key") because the bone rotates along its axis like a key when the shoulder is abducted."

RiderOnTheStorm

The medical term for fingers is phalanges. And toes are phalanges too! Not too weird I guess, as in French "toes" translate to "foot fingers".

mzungu

The tea-bag was an accident.

Back in 1908 tea merchant Thomas Sullivan gave out his tea samples in small silken bags. His customers did not understand that the bags were to hold the sample, so they dunked them into their tea. It proved popular and orders for these tea-bags went through the roof. Sullivan did make one amendment, he changed the silk bag for ones made of gauze as he felt that the mesh on the silk bags was too fine.

Esel

Esel wrote: »

From Wikipedia:

"It receives its name from the Latin: clavicula ("little key") because the bone rotates along its axis like a key when the shoulder is abducted."

Wiki is wrong on this one. My big brother told me about it, and my big brother is never wrong about nuthin'.

New Home

clavicle (n.)

"collarbone," 1610s, from Middle French clavicule "collarbone" (16c.), also "small key," from Medieval Latin clavicula "collarbone" (used … c. 980 in a translation of Avicenna), special use of classical Latin clavicula, literally "small key, bolt," diminutive of clavis "key …

Kat1170

Candie wrote: »

Wiki is wrong on this one. My big brother told me about it, and my big brother is never wrong about nuthin'.

So what you're actually saying is your big brother is wrong about everything ;)

MikeyTaylor

Lady Haywire wrote: »

AP McCoy had his first ride – seventh-placed Nordic Touch on the Flat at now defunct Dublin track of Phoenix Park on this day (September 1st) in 1990. Pat Healy took two photos of the then unknown jockey with Jim Bolger and his dad Peader because, AP's dad said to the photographer "Will you take a picture of my son’s first ride? He might not get many more." AP's win record was 4,358 GB & IRE Jumps winners along with 9 Flat race wins.

A jockey won a race dead in June 1923.

New Home

Water John

On the matter of toes, Swapna Barman won the Heptathlon in the Asian games recently and she has 6 toes on each foot.She's in pain competing and wants new shoes.

Chancer3001

Just like French toes are foot fingers in Irish too.

Méara. And méara coise.

Also , lots of people will say oh the thumb isn't a finger.
Well then there's no such thing as the middle finger

Fourier

New Home wrote: »

The first part is right, but I think you need ~2,360 grains of desert sand for their atoms to about the same as the number of stars in the observable universe.

(Sand grain weight taken from The Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes by R. A. Bagnold, 2012)

Ash.J.Williams

RiderOnTheStorm wrote: »

Did a bee-keeper course recently.....they are fascinating creatures.

The queen is not the boss. She is a bee producing living factory . She mates for 1 day in her life and stores the sperm and uses it to fertilize an egg. Perhaps 100 thousand in course of her life.

Bees dont mind the cold. They can heat up the colony by vibrating. They can cool it down by standing by entrance and fanning their wings to bring cool air in. They keep colony temperature within a degree of 37.5 (human body temp).

Scout bees find good food sources, and fly back and tell the rest of the colony so they can go directly there (saves energy). They tell the colony direction & distance! The do a "wiggle dance" which is a figure of 8 routine and the centre of the 8 points in the direction of food. Distance? That involves walking in a circle, which means "near" (less than 500m). If there is no circle done after the wiggle dance it means food is far, bring a snack!

If you have a few hives, you cant let one get too strong or too weak. If one becomes too strong it will raid the weak one, killing all bees in it, and steal their honey...in less than a day! Why? Because its easier fly next door and get a years worth of honey instead of flying for miles, if you think you can get away with it!

Bees do see in colour. But its not colour as we know it. They have good high-contrast vision, and bee keepers often paint symbols on the hive. A different one on each box, eg 3 horizontal bars, triangle, daisy, circle, etc. When a bee leaves the hive, she does a quick fly around to see where home is so she can find right hive when she gets back.

Local honey is supposed to be good for allergies (its made from the flowers (pollen) you are allergic to). But all honey made in Ireland is "local". Thats because the plants in Donegal, are largely same as those in Kerry, and Wicklow. The local label applies to very large countries like USA where there is huge difference between plants in Texas, and Florida and Alaska etc.

a bee keeper told me you have to knock on a bee hive before you work on it, they like it when you knock first?

cdeb

Chancer3001 wrote: »

Just like French toes are foot fingers in Irish too.

Méara. And méara coise.

Similarly, the words for thumb and inch are the same in some languages (e.g. pollice in Italian) because the thumb was (can still can be) used as the basis for an inch.

RiderOnTheStorm

Chancer3001 wrote:

Méara. And méara coise.

Ha.....did not know that! Cheers :-)

cdeb

One from Reeling in the Years yesterday -

In 1981, an Aer Lingus flight from Dublin to London was hijacked and forced to land in Paris, to refuel for an onward trip to Iran.

The hijacker's demands? That the Pope reveal the Third Secret of Fatima.

Here's the relevant clip; I love the almost contemptuous look on Reynolds' face when the English journalist asks "What on earth is that?"

What a wonderfully Irish hijacking.

(Can't work out how to embed it for some reason...)

RiderOnTheStorm

I love physics. But I am not great at it (btw, see other thread on that very topic here in AH).

From memory from leaving cert....

Gravity here on Earth is represented in equations as "g" (aka little-g). There is other gravity in the universe too of course. Gravitational attraction between planets, planets & stars, planets & moons, etc. This is called G (aka big-G). There is force between you and the planet (G) but your mass is very small (despite what you see in the mirror). But it is there.

The Earth is spinning (bet you did know that!). So the force it sucks you down with (ie big G) is slightly lessened by the spin effect of planet which is pushing you away...the net effect is little-g. Everyday "gravity". Everything you try and measure on this planet will have gravity of g. Regardless of its mass. The bigger the thing, the more it should be attracted to the planet (big-G), but the spin pushes it away more...so it balances out as little-g. Always. This is why when you drop a penny and a bowling ball from top of leaning tower of Pizza (or whatever Galileo dropped), they hit the ground at same time. Same experiment on the moon gives different results (no spin there).
Of course, dropping a feather and a coin has different results too. This is because of air resistance on the feather makes it reach Terminal Velocity almost instantly. See much earlier post about sky divers. If you like, check out the feather drop in a vacuum on YouTube....weird to see feather fall like a stone!

RiderOnTheStorm

Chancer3001 wrote:

Méara. And méara coise.

I guess faddas dont cut & paste well (for me)!!

Reminds me of point made in early days of text messages. Txt was fast & cheap partially because coding & transmitting basic ASCII (a to z, zero to 9 etc) was easy. Then you put in a letter like á or ç..... Story was that each non standard character had to be sent as an entirely separate text and reassembled into the word when it arrived. All automatically and un-noticed by the sender or receiver..... except sender was charged for 2 txt's!! Dont know if its (still) true.

Infernum

When King Charles II of Spain died, a postmortem revealed he had absolutely no blood in his body and his heart was very tiny.

That's generations of inbreeding for ya.

joujoujou

RiderOnTheStorm wrote: »

[...]

Reminds me of point made in early days of text messages. Txt was fast & cheap partially because coding & transmitting basic ASCII (a to z, zero to 9 etc) was easy. Then you put in a letter like á or ç..... Story was that each non standard character had to be sent as an entirely separate text and reassembled into the word when it arrived. All automatically and un-noticed by the sender or receiver..... except sender was charged for 2 txt's!! [...]

Interestingly, all the letters of Greek alphabet went through normally, just like basic characters.

Realt Dearg Sec

Fourier wrote: »

(Sand grain weight taken from The Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes by R. A. Bagnold, 2012)

Great book, couldn't put it down.

gozunda

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

Great book, couldn't put it down.

Personally I thought of it was a bit rough and grity ....

Wellyd

Chancer3001 wrote: »

Just like French toes are foot fingers in Irish too.

Méara. And méara coise.

Also , lots of people will say oh the thumb isn't a finger.
Well then there's no such thing as the middle finger

I’ve been using the word barraicini for toes in school! I’m praying I didn’t make that up!

IvyTheTerrific

Infernum wrote: »

When King Charles II of Spain died, a postmortem revealed he had absolutely no blood in his body and his heart was very tiny.

That's generations of inbreeding for ya.

Google his picture, that wasn't the only thing wrong with him. The massive amount of inbreeding meant that he was incapable of producing an heir. And so because of the massive amounts of inbreeding, it was nigh on impossible to decide on who was entitled to the throne of Spain, thus leading to the War of Spanish Succession. This war lasted 13 years, caused much death and destruction and changed the face of Europe (and one could argue, of European colonies forever).

mr chips

Tá mé ar mo bharraicíní " would be "I'm on my tiptoes". Ladhar is another word for toe (sounds like the word liar in English), the plural is laidhre.
The five digits on your hand are called ordóg, sínteog, méar fhada, fáinneog, lúideog - thumb, stretcher/ signer, long finger, ring finger, tiddler (níos lú = smaller).

New Home

Infernum

New Home wrote: »

I know it's not uncommon for sets to be recycled, but that's still pretty mind-blowing considering those shows were my childhood.

IvyTheTerrific

Infernum wrote: »

I know it's not uncommon for sets to be recycled, but that's still pretty mind-blowing considering those shows were my childhood.

Colonial Street is the set that comes to mind for me. Best known as Wisteria Lane, it's been used for many films, series and music videos.
https://www.google.fr/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_Street&ved=2ahUKEwjh8Prm0ZzdAhUSQRoKHTUcC6MQFjAAegQIAxAB&usg=AOvVaw3Y54apR--_Ys6-zkfA2RCA

barrymanilow

This symbol , the green dot , doesn't mean that the packaging it is found on can be recycled will be recycled or is recycleable , it just means that the company who make it pay into a fund to recycle other stuff that can be recycled.

It's often confused with this symbol which means the item it is found on is widely recycled and is recyclable.