Stupid questions you want to know but can't be arsed to google

[ohhdearyme]

Stupid question but..
Who decided/figured that our year was equivalent to 7 years as a dog?
How did they know this?

I'd assumed it was just human average life expectancy (80ish) divided by dog average life expectancy (12ish?).

Maybe a dog told us

That was a simple rule of thumb, probably deduced as BrillyPribble suggests.

There's a breed specific calculator, I think the people who do radio 4 'more or less' came up with it after analysing data.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22479412

7 years is an average, but broken down it doesn't equate to your 1 year old dog being 7. It's more like the dog gets to about 18 in year one then stays in its 20s for the next 3 years, then its 30s for 3 years, then it's middle-aged for a while and finally ages quite rapidly in the last couple of years; but it's also variable according to breed.

I always think that one day, I will Google what actually happened with the Watergate Scandal in the US in the 1970s. I just never seem to get round to it.

Why does laundry smell SO MUCH BETTER when it's dried in the sun instead of on the airer inside?

I was wondering earlier, when did working for money/income begin? I assume that 'back in the day' people worked in exchange for food and other life essentials. How did it start? How did someone suddenly decide 'if you do this for me, I'll give you that'.

And when did money come in to it?

This one is disgusting, but when you fart, which food does it stink of? What you just ate, or yesterday?

Sorry, utterly yuck

(asking for DH)