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Post up facts and things that hardly anyone knows...... (for entertainment purposes only. NO need to fact check)
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you are never more than 5 feet away from a spider
Last week, an Oregon man named David Schapiro donated his 100th gallon of platelets to the American Red Cross — enough to have saved around 400 lives in the 30 years he’s been donating.
The Kiwi fruit is a native of China, (originally known as the Chinese Gooseberry) and when discovered growing in New Zealand many years ago, it was considered to be a pest and nothing more than a nasty weed.
A few years later some clever people cultivated it, grew it properly, and has now become one of the top exports for New Zealand - both in fruit and plant form. The Kiwi is now grown in many parts of the world, which was a stupid move by the growers here....but we won't go there.
I remember as a kid having to try and cut the damn vines back so we could get rid of them. The fruit back then was small and usually bitter and woody.
A few years later some clever people cultivated it, grew it properly, and has now become one of the top exports for New Zealand - both in fruit and plant form. The Kiwi is now grown in many parts of the world, which was a stupid move by the growers here....but we won't go there.
I remember as a kid having to try and cut the damn vines back so we could get rid of them. The fruit back then was small and usually bitter and woody.
Rowan Atkinson aka Mr Bean and others, plays many bumbling fools in his characters, but Rowan is actually a very smart man with an IQ of 178.
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The world's strongest beer packs a walloping 67.5% alcohol rating.
Funny this should come up...... this actually happened here also....
We can't believe that 10 years ago a prankster in Brisbane put New Zealand up for sale on eBay, the online auction site! The Australian tried to auction our whole country for just one Australian cent.
(I suspect the shipping was a killer)
I got to ride the maglev train in Shanghai from the airport to downtown. 300 kph and 15 minutes later we were downtown. It was so smooth you couldn't tell it was moving.
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That is 186 MPH. I rode from Shanghai up through Wuxi and when I got back home, I had to tell my then young son, "You know how Kung Fu Panda has the famous Wuxi Finger Hold? Yea, I went through Wuxi!"
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The world's oldest cigarette brand still in production, Muratti, was started in Turkey in 1821.
Phillip Morris, from 1847, is the second oldest brand.
Phillip Morris, from 1847, is the second oldest brand.
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For the construction minded members.....
The ancient Romans are known for many innovations that were ahead of their time, including running water and a rotating dining room. But some of the civilization’s construction work seems ahead of even our time. Case in point: Concrete used in some ancient Roman construction is much stronger than most modern concrete, surviving for millennia and getting stronger, not weaker, over time. Roman concrete endures even in seismically active regions and without reinforcement. The secret ingredient? The sea...
According to a recipe by Roman engineer Marcus Vitruvius from 30 BCE, builders mixed this ancient mortar with a combination of volcanic ash, lime, and seawater, poured it into wooden molds, then soaked it in additional seawater. This created a strong concrete suitable for dramatic structural designs. The material essentially reinforced itself over time, especially in, but not limited to, marine environments. Some 2,000-year-old sea walls, such as those lining the Italian coast, are near-indestructible, and the basic method has also kept walls in the Trajan’s Market archaeological complex standing since the second century CE...
As the ancient concrete ages, moisture dissolves volcanic ash and triggers a chemical reaction that causes small crystals to form. These crystals resemble materials that engineers add to concrete to toughen it up today, but because they develop naturally after the structure is already in place, they’re able to further bind the concrete together, particularly in porous areas that are usually weak...
Roman concrete is also more environmentally friendly than most modern cement - the key active ingredient in today’s concrete - which requires extremely high temperatures to create. The volcanic ash and similar compounds, collectively called pozzolan, bake at much lower temperatures, and the resulting crystals don’t require heat to form...
The ancient Romans are known for many innovations that were ahead of their time, including running water and a rotating dining room. But some of the civilization’s construction work seems ahead of even our time. Case in point: Concrete used in some ancient Roman construction is much stronger than most modern concrete, surviving for millennia and getting stronger, not weaker, over time. Roman concrete endures even in seismically active regions and without reinforcement. The secret ingredient? The sea...
According to a recipe by Roman engineer Marcus Vitruvius from 30 BCE, builders mixed this ancient mortar with a combination of volcanic ash, lime, and seawater, poured it into wooden molds, then soaked it in additional seawater. This created a strong concrete suitable for dramatic structural designs. The material essentially reinforced itself over time, especially in, but not limited to, marine environments. Some 2,000-year-old sea walls, such as those lining the Italian coast, are near-indestructible, and the basic method has also kept walls in the Trajan’s Market archaeological complex standing since the second century CE...
As the ancient concrete ages, moisture dissolves volcanic ash and triggers a chemical reaction that causes small crystals to form. These crystals resemble materials that engineers add to concrete to toughen it up today, but because they develop naturally after the structure is already in place, they’re able to further bind the concrete together, particularly in porous areas that are usually weak...
Roman concrete is also more environmentally friendly than most modern cement - the key active ingredient in today’s concrete - which requires extremely high temperatures to create. The volcanic ash and similar compounds, collectively called pozzolan, bake at much lower temperatures, and the resulting crystals don’t require heat to form...
