The "Did you know" thread..... - Page 474

Estreeter · October 27th, 2017, 02:44 PM

Did you know

Toyota didn't make cars to begin with, Nope Mr Toyoda, his actual name, first made a weaving loom

Ahh, who cares, I can't stand Japanese cars

**Roubignol** · October 28th, 2017, 05:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Estreeter

Did you know

Toyota didn't make cars to begin with, Nope Mr Toyoda, his actual name, first made a weaving loom

Ahh, who cares, I can't stand Japanese cars

My Japanese engine

**DTravel** · October 28th, 2017, 06:13 PM

More deep knowledge from Snapple bottle caps.

A jackrabbit can travel more than 12 feet in one hop.

Hawaii is the only U.S. state never to report a temperature of zero.

The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.

In ancient Greece, the strawberry was a symbol for Venus, the Goddess of Love. ("What does that make the cream in strawberries and cream?" he stupidly asked on a porn forum.)

Estreeter · October 29th, 2017, 06:58 AM

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Originally Posted by xyzde69

My Japanese engine

My actual affordable and realistic V8 you can buy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEJzrKHbaAQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzUqkjqXNnM

Melchior · October 29th, 2017, 09:02 AM

Did you know that sister of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Maria Anna Mozart died 188 years ago on this date at the age of 78. She was 5 years older than Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

She was also a musician and composer

**DTravel** · October 29th, 2017, 07:37 PM

In the Clarendon Laboratory at Oxford University sits a battery-powered bell that has been ringing since the year 1840. The bell "rings" so quietly it's almost inaudible, using only a tiny amount of charge with every motion of the clapper. Nobody knows exactly what kind of batteries it uses because nobody wants to take it apart to figure it out.

Melchior · October 30th, 2017, 12:33 AM

Did you know that once a man tried to kill Mary I of England by using the sun. He climbs up to the top of St. James Palace and used a mirror to focus the sun rays on the Queen who was walking on the ground. The attempt was not successful.

**rosestone** · October 30th, 2017, 03:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Melchior

Did you know that once a man tried to kill Mary I of England by using the sun. He climbs up to the top of St. James Palace and used a mirror to focus the sun rays on the Queen who was walking on the ground. The attempt was not successful.

Still didn't reflect well on her though!

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Originally Posted by DTravel

In the Clarendon Laboratory at Oxford University sits a battery-powered bell that has been ringing since the year 1840. The bell "rings" so quietly it's almost inaudible, using only a tiny amount of charge with every motion of the clapper. Nobody knows exactly what kind of batteries it uses because nobody wants to take it apart to figure it out.

At the university of Queensland an experiment began in 1927 to measure how long it takes for pitch to form into a drop and drip from a funnel. The first drop fell in 1938. The eighth drop fell in the year 2000, 12 years after the seventh, and should have been the first drop caught on camera, but the camera happened to be experiencing technical difficulties that day. The next drop should have occurred in 2014, but the drop fused with the other drops in the tray underneath, and when an attempt was made at removing the tray, the drop snapped off.

I like to imagine that it is one man's sole purpose in life to monitor all this, and every 12 or so years he gets too over-excited, like Beaker from the muppets. It would make a good movie, I feel.

Melchior · October 30th, 2017, 08:37 AM

Did you know that Mary I has been threaded unfairly by history, Mary I sure she sent 283 protestants to their death. But she wasn`t as bloodthirsty as people think and she was no more violent than other monarchs of her time. I mean her fahter Henry VIII sent more than 50.000 people to the gallows. Mary I was not a great ruler but she was capable and not as bad as history tells us. Also she did pave way for much of Elisabeth I achievments. The nickname "Bloody Mary" was conined by the protestant supporters of her sister Elisabeth I. And it stuck and it wrongly created the perceptuion that she was an evil and bloody woman. But the fact is that she was really no worse than any other of the Tudor Monarchs and other European monarchs of that time. I know its hard for people to accept this its hard to accept that what people have thougth for almost 500 years is wrong.

**Roubignol** · October 30th, 2017, 08:40 AM

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Originally Posted by DTravel

The standard Chinese typewriter has 1,500 characters.

An electric eel can release a charge powerful enough to start 50 cars.

(Trivia from my Snapple bottle caps. Now I'm wondering how many Chinese electric typewriters an electric eel can power?)

(And I don't know if its a Chinese or a European electric eel so I don't know how fast it can swim while electrifying a coconut! Jeez you people ask weird questions.)

Unbelievable videos.

Crazy Chinese Typewriter

chinese typewriter

That seems absolutely inefficient. Am I wrong?

But on the other side, one day, I listened to the Bouddhist monk Matthieu Ricard, who said that he was very impressed by the huge memory of Asian people. He observed that they often are able to remember very long texts by heart.
Maybe it results of the way to remember all their words?

Here is a video about Japanese keyboard.

How Japanese people use a keyboard

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Melchior Senior Member Join Date: May 2017 Posts: 220 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1,074 Times in 191 Posts	Did you know that Mary I has been threaded unfairly by history, Mary I sure she sent 283 protestants to their death. But she wasn`t as bloodthirsty as people think and she was no more violent than other monarchs of her time. I mean her fahter Henry VIII sent more than 50.000 people to the gallows. Mary I was not a great ruler but she was capable and not as bad as history tells us. Also she did pave way for much of Elisabeth I achievments. The nickname "Bloody Mary" was conined by the protestant supporters of her sister Elisabeth I. And it stuck and it wrongly created the perceptuion that she was an evil and bloody woman. But the fact is that she was really no worse than any other of the Tudor Monarchs and other European monarchs of that time. I know its hard for people to accept this its hard to accept that what people have thougth for almost 500 years is wrong.