Tell me something I don't know...

[Waytoomanycoasters]

What's the best/most outlandish/favourite fact in your repatoire?

That last one has blown my mind!

If you put cream crackers with cheese on in the microwave.The cheese will melt but the cracker will stay room temp

Saturdayblurs · 13/09/2024 19:49

+ + Mammoths were still roaming the earth at the time the Great Pyramids were built.+ +

Actually they were already extinct, and considerably beforehand.

QI Klaxon!!

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/last-wooly-mammoths-died-isolated-and-alone-180955208/

"By comparing DNA taken from a 4,300 year-old mammoth tooth found on Wrangel Island with that of a 45,000 year-old soft tissue sample found in northern Siberia, the researchers discovered that there had been two massive die-offs before the last mammoths went extinct."

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/ancient-egyptians/how-old-are-the-egyptian-pyramids

"The first pyramid in Egypt was built by the pharaoh Djoser, who reigned nearly 4,700 years ago."

WearsblackLoveschocolateAvoidspeople · 13/09/2024 20:35

Annie in Michael Jackson's Smooth Criminal is actually based on the CPR dummy. Apparently, MJ was learning CPR training around the time he wrote the song. And the CPR dummy was named Annie after an unknown young woman's body was found in the River Seine in the late 1800's. It was common for a death mask to be made of unidentified bodies and put on display in the hope someone would recognise the person.

Well, I didn't know that, it's very sad. I do first aid and basic firefighting, as part of my job and have practiced CPR on "Rescussie Annie" as she is known, many times.

Before I forget vanilla, it's native to Mexico and not Madagascar. When Westerners first encountered it, they tried to grow it in many places, mostly with poor results, but Madagascan vanilla is actually far superior to the native variety.

There are wars and feuds over it, such is its value.

Fromage · 18/09/2024 06:10

Australia, however, is going nowhere.

It is, it's moving North at 7cm a year, the Australian Plate is the fastest moving tectonic plate, at 7cm a year.

Also, magnetic pole shift worriers, the Earth doesn't flip round, just the polarity of its magnetism. The poles precess constantly - think of a spinning top not quite vertical and how the handle moves around. It's been known for hundreds of years and with modern mariners maps, there is information about the declination of the magnetic poles, for accurate course corrections.

The flipping of the poles has helped to age the oceanic plates, because there are stripes of rock, with opposite polarities, a bit like a giant zebra crossing. As the magma is extruded from rifts and sets, magnetic minerals align North - South and are fixed that way.

Well, not so much nowadays, with GPS positioning and route planning.

Yes, I'm a geologist, I need to get out more...

Penguins are native to Australia. They also live in Africa.

The klaxon is for you.

It's right there in your post - a tooth has been found from a Woolly Mammoth that lived around 400 years after the first pyramid was built.

EDIT oops sorry - didn't realise at first you were debunking someone else's fals claim.

And none of the instructors have introduced Annie? I think I find that mind blowing more tbh

CombatBarbie · Today 03:43
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And none of the instructors have introduced Annie? I think I find that mind blowing more tbh

No, they just say, this is Ressuscie Annie.

Dolphins name each other
Dolphins use unique whistles to identify each other and respond to their names

I knew they recognised one another's calls, but not that they named each other!

Have some of my dolphin pictures:

I can remember the headmistress of my posh all girls school in the 1960s reminding us all in assembly that "Girls at [name of school] are forbidden to have intercourse with boys when in school uniform". She completely lost it when we all started to laugh! 🤣