I bet you didnt know that

Capt'n Midnight

The submarine launched Mark 45 wire guided torpedo could be fitted with an 11kt nuclear warhead.

It was a weapon with a kill probability of two. Him and you.
The range was shorter than the lethal blast radios.

The Arabic word for desert is 'sahara'. So the Sahara Desert is the Desert desert.

Capt'n Midnight

There's a desert in Poland.

In general primate evolution there is a relationship between tooth size and brain size. As the brain gets bigger, so do the teeth so that a wider variety and greater quantity of food can be eaten to accommodate the massive energy consumption of a large brain.

Humans are the only exception to this among primates, as our brains got bigger our teeth got smaller. It's assumed this is because we tamed fire and cooked our food which led to it being more easily chewed, and also because we ate more meat than other primates, giving us greater calories in smaller portions that take less work to break down. We also have thicker tooth enamel than other primates, probably a result of our more varied diet.

The human brain takes up about 2.2% of body mass and uses about 20% of calorie intake to run it so cooking and eating meat gave us sources of energy that literally fuelled our evolution, while our near cousins relied on less varied and tougher diets that needed more time to gather, to eat, and complicated and energy consuming digestive processes that diverted energy from brain development.

RandomName2

There's a shorter time between when Cleopatra was living and now, than there was between when Cleopatra was living and when the pyramids of Giza were built.

Capt'n Midnight

Candie wrote: »

In general primate evolution there is a relationship between tooth size and brain size.

For bats the trade off is between brain size and testicle size.

Wibbs

Hagar7 wrote: »

Nero never played the fiddle whilst Rome burned,it wasn't invented until the 16th century.

and it's just as likely he wasn't even in the city. Other reports show him rushing to Rome when the news reached him, bringing supplies of food for the inhabitants. Nero setting the blaze and rejoicing in it comes from Christian sources.

Candie wrote:

Humans are the only exception to this among primates, as our brains got bigger our teeth got smaller. It's assumed this is because we tamed fire and cooked our food which led to it being more easily chewed,

Our guts became shorter too as cooking meant digestion processes were started outside the body.

Winterlong

The Shetland islands were under Viking/Norwegian rule from the dark ages until 1707.

Jawgap

Candie wrote: »

In the Middle Ages, stringed instruments were classified as fidicula, from which the word fiddle is derived.

Nero most probably played an early version of the lute, which was accurately described as him playing a fidicula as Rome burned, later misinterpreted as Nero playing the fiddle during the inferno.

Nero didn't play anything when Rome burned and was active in trying to organise the effort to fight the fires by pulling down buildings to create fire breaks.

He was a musician and performer though, something frowned upon by the elites of the day and it was his opponents after his assassination who started the rumours about him playing an instrument or sitting idly by while the city burned. They also put the rumour out that he had the fire started either to clear space for a palace or to create a pretext for persecuting the Christians.

The truth is it probably started accidentally with discarded embers from a baker's ovens.

IvyTheTerrible

Winterlong wrote: »

The Shetland islands were under Viking/Norwegian rule from the dark ages until 1707.

National Geographic subscriber?

Winterlong

Reading through this thread you cant help but think AH could put together a great pub quiz team.

Winterlong

IvyTheTerrible wrote: »

National Geographic subscriber?

Yourself isit

Dtp1979 wrote: »

The 1 to 5 settings on a toaster are actually minutes

Fake news.

Dtp1979

Yourself isit wrote: »

Fake news.

No it's actually true

Winterlong

Dtp1979 wrote: »

No it's actually true

MMMM, not sure. But I do fancy a slice of toast now.

http://mentalfloss.com/article/69879/what-do-those-numbers-your-toaster-mean

Skylinehead

Candie wrote: »

The Arabic word for desert is 'sahara'. So the Sahara Desert is the Desert desert.

It is, however, not the largest desert. Antarctica is.

Red Kev

Only about 10% of the Sahara is your stereotypical sand dunes. The rest is flat, hard sand and rock.

In 2005 a tarred road was completed from Nouakchott to Nouadhibou in Mauritania, meaning you can drive through the desert on a tarred road for the first time. There is a 2km section on the Moroccan/Mauritanian border that is unpaved as it goes through a minefield in disputed territory.

You can drive from Cherbourg to Tiznit, 100km south of Agadir and never leave a motorway or Dual Carraigeway, (over 3,000km). Driving from Dublin to south Morocco, the only single carraigeway you'll meet is on the N11.

Hagar7

Candie wrote: »

In the Middle Ages, stringed instruments were classified as fidicula, from which the word fiddle is derived.

Nero most probably played an early version of the lute, which was accurately described as him playing a fidicula as Rome burned, later misinterpreted as Nero playing the fiddle during the inferno.

You're a teacher,right?

Yourself isit

Dtp1979 wrote: »

No it's actually true

Absolutely not. 5 minutes toasting vs 1 minute toasting would:

1) be obvious. We'd notice the time. Also it would count downlike a microwave, the timer would turn
2) either burn the toast to a crisp on the higher level or not toast at all on level 1.

It changes the heating setting. Time is the same.

Hagar7

Hagar7 wrote: »

You're a teacher,right?

At 3rd level, some of the time.

Red Kev

Red Kev wrote: »

Only about 10% of the Sahara is your stereotypical sand dunes. The rest is flat, hard sand and rock.

The Sahara is partly responsible for replenishing the mineral content of soils in the Amazon. Planetary winds carry the mineralized sand to the Amazon basin and fertilizes the rainforest.

The world is a fabulous jigsaw.

Dtp1979

Yourself isit wrote: »

Absolutely not. 5 minutes toasting vs 1 minute toasting would:

1) be obvious. We'd notice the time. Also it would count downlike a microwave, the timer would turn
2) either burn the toast to a crisp on the higher level or not toast at all on level 1.

It changes the heating setting. Time is the same.

Yes you're right. I checked. My world has been turned upside down now

Yourself isit

The furthest eastern part of the US is Alaska.

Also furthest West and North.

Buford T. Justice XIX

Yourself isit wrote: »

The furthest eastern part of the US is Alaska.

Also furthest West and North.

Alaska is further east than New York?

Really?

Capt'n Midnight

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

For bats the trade off is between brain size and testicle size.

I read something about bats the other day that made me smile.

Since bat wings are basically skin stretched over elongated 'finger' bones, bat flight is basically powered by Jazz Hands.

Yourself isit

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

Alaska is further east than New York?

Really?

Maine is the east most point if you don't count the Alaskan islands. There's an archipelago of islands called the Aleutian islands off the west of Alaska that go so far West they cross the 180 meridian.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleutian_Islands

These islands were attacked during the WWII so they are also the only part of the US to see war on its territory (excluding the original attacks on hawaii).

Skylinehead

Yourself isit wrote: »

These islands were attacked during the WWII so they are also the only part of the US to see war on its territory (excluding the original attacks on hawaii).

Not quite, there was this quite useless attempt:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lookout_Air_Raids

DEFTLEFTHAND

Yourself isit wrote: »

The furthest eastern part of the US is Alaska.

Also furthest West and North.

You can also see Russia on a clear day from the Diomede islands in the Bering Sea.

Sarah Palin mentioned this to a reporter during the 2008 election. They maliciously misquoted her by printing that she said she could see Russia from her house.

I remember feeling so sorry for at the time. The press can be so cruel, especially if they have an agenda like that bastard who interviewed her did.

Early this year, John Gartner - a former head of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins - started a petition stating his belief that Donald Trump manifests a serious mental illness (narcissistic personality disorder) that prevents him from being a suitable person to be POTUS and discharge the powers and responsibilities of that office. The petition has no legal effect and is intended to highlight the POTUS irrational behaviour.

It has since been signed by over thirty thousand mental health professionals.

Hagar7

Candie wrote: »

At 3rd level, some of the time.

Tis your forte.:D