Thread: Did you know...?

Not for me

Nor I

^, ^^ Competition for you both.

One of the astronomer groups chose a quarter sq inch section at random, of what they had mapped out to be deep dark space with nothing in it, and focussed Hubble (?) at it for 3 days (?), at which time the scope started returning images of light from a whole host of new galaxies.

100 years ago the known universe was our corner of the Milky Way, today it's 93 billion light years across (Big Bang just 13.7 bn years ago!)...any guesses how big it'll be this time next century?

Leonardo DiVinci invented the scissors

Uranus smells like rotten eggs.

Uranus Smells Like Rotten Eggs, Researchers Confirm | Sci-Tech Universe

They were very small and he called them scissorinis

If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.

Marilyn Manson's IQ was last recorded at 148.

Songs written by Charles Manson were recorded by The Beach Boys, Guns 'n Roses and Marilyn Manson.

^ Wow Didn't know about last two

Interesting reading.....never heard about the Beach Boy connection before....

https://www.billboard.com/articles/c...les-beach-boys

Originally Posted by cyrille

If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

But if they're walking...?

Yeah, I was looking for a dumb one as we mentioned yesterday.

The Hollywood actress Hedy Lamarr was an inventor of some note.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...not-just-a-pr/

At the beginning of World War II, she and composer George Antheil developed a radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes, which used spread spectrum and frequency hopping technology to defeat the threat of jamming by the Axis powers.^[5] Although the US Navy did not adopt the technology until the 1960s^{[citation needed]}, the principles of their work are arguably incorporated into Bluetooth technology and similar to methods used in legacy versions of CDMA and Wi-Fi.^[6][7][8] This work led to their induction into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2014.^[5][9]

Originally Posted by hick

The most common form of precipitation in the solar system is thought not to be water, but diamonds.

It's thought that it's common on the 2 gas and ice giants due to carbon in the atmosphere being compressed.

Originally Posted by cyrille

Yeah, I was looking for a dumb one as we mentioned yesterday.

Sorry mate, forgot the smile again.











Damn!

Originally Posted by jabir

Uranus smells like rotten eggs.

Sorry, it must've been the pad thai...(reaching for the bum gun)

Originally Posted by uncle junior

Leonardo DiVinci invented the scissors

Of course he did.......long after the ideals were planted/diffused by ancient and wiser Middle Eastern/Asian cultures.

Further research shows the Egyptisns get credit for inventing scissors. Makes sense cuz they invented paper too....it wasn't til years later that they invented rock...

What's in a lettuce.

Iceberg lettuce has virtually No calories but is also very low in potassium whereas romain lettuce has calories and is high in potassium.

The eye of an ostrich is bigger than its brain.

The Sun takes around 220 million years to make one revolution within the Milky Way.