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Re: Yes it really happened

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Re: Yes it really happened

Post by Doodoo » January 5, 2020, 7:14 pm

Doodoo wrote: ↑January 5, 2020, 5:02 am
Scotland 40 bottles of Scotch Whisky are shipped overseas each second (yes, that's right!
So 31536000 seconds in one year = 1261440000 bottles of Whisky according to your figures.

Are you sure, old chum? :-k

I just post. If you want to confirm go right ahead and search You will have to argue with the Author. In this case Scotland Org.com

Old Chum

https://www.scotland.org/about-scotland/facts/whisky

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Re: Yes it really happened

Post by Earnest » January 5, 2020, 10:59 pm

Yes, I checked and the figure is right according to HMRC, 1.28 billion bottles for 2018. How about that. :D

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Re: Yes it really happened

Post by Earnest » January 5, 2020, 11:06 pm

dezzer wrote:
August 28, 2019, 11:49 pm
Hob jerk they take some dunking, hard bastards.
Bad form to dunk a Hob Nob in a cup of tea.
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Re: Yes it really happened

Post by Doodoo » January 6, 2020, 5:23 am

1) Only one letter doesn’t appear in the periodic table Can you name it
ANSWER at the end

2) For one of our strangest science facts, bananas contain potassium, and since potassium decays, that makes them slightly radioactive. But this is one of those fun science facts you don’t need to worry about. You’d need to eat 10,000,000 bananas at once to die of radiation poisoning, Forbes reports.

3)This fact seems counterintuitive, but it’s called the Mpemba effect, after a Tanzanian student named Erasto Mpemba who told his teacher than a hot mixture of ice cream froze faster than a cold one. Scientists now believe this is because the velocities of water particles have a specific disposition while they’re hot that allows them to freeze more readily. If proven correct, this finding could also have implications in daily life, like cooling down electronic devices
Cold water heats up faster than hot water

4) You can make balls fly
If you spin a ball when you drop it, it will fly through the air as it falls. This is called the Magnus effect, and it makes playing tennis and soccer a whole lot easier.

5) Only one mammal has wings
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1) answer is letter "J"

5) The only mammal that has wings is a Bat
Flying squirrels can jump from trees and glide but not fly

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Re: Yes it really happened

Post by Doodoo » January 7, 2020, 6:00 am

Time to Learn a bit more about a Land we call Home, Thailand

1) Thailand’s name in the Thai language is Prathet Thai, which means “Land of the Free.” It is the only country in Southeast Asia that was never colonized by a European nation. The term may also refer to an ethnic group from which many Thai people descend.

2) Thailand has had several names over the centuries. For hundreds of years it was known by the names of its dominant cities, such as Sukhothai, Ayutthaya, and Thonburi. Since the 1800s, it has repeatedly switched back and forth between Siam (Sanskrit meaning dark or brown) and Thailand.

3) Buddhism is Thailand’s largest religion with approximately 94.6% of the population practicing the religion. Muslims make up 4.6%, Christians 0.7%, and “other” 0.1%.

4) In the past, all Thai young men including the kings became Buddhist monks for at least a short period of time before their 20th birthday. Today, fewer young men observe the practice

5) In 1999, 30 vets worked to heal a 38-year-old cow elephants’ foot, which had been destroyed when she stepped on a landmine in Thailand. It set the record for the largest number of vets in one procedure

6) Thailand is slightly larger than the size of Wyoming at 198,115 square miles (513,115 sq km).

7) The longest place name in the world is the full name of Bangkok, the capital city of Thailand: Krungthepmahanakhon Amonrattanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilokphop Noppharatratchathaniburirom Udomratchaniwetmahasathan Amonphimanawatansathit Sakkathattiyawitsanukamprasit. It means “City of Angels, Great City of Immortals, Magnificent City of the Nine Gems, Seat of an individual, City of Royal Palaces, Home of Gods Incarnate, Erected by Visvakarman at Indra’s Behest.” DAMN

8) Thailand’s national language is called Thai, which many scholars believe is a form of Chinese that was gradually brought to the area between the 7th and 13th centuries. Like Lao, Vietnamese, and Chinese, Thai is a very tonal language. Its alphabet has 32 vowels and 44 consonants.

9) Traffic police in Bangkok wear facemasks because of dangerous levels of air pollution. Additionally, police stations are equipped with oxygen tanks in case exhaust fumes overwhelm the officers. More than 20% of Bangkok’s police have some form of lung disease. One Thai bank estimated that Bangkok’s pollution woes cost the nation $2.3 billion annually in lost production, wasted energy, and health costs

10) Over 300,000 Thai have settled in North America with the largest communities along the West Coast in cities such as Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Vancouver. Today, over 10,000 Americans live in Thailand.

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Re: Yes it really happened

Post by Udon Map » January 7, 2020, 1:09 pm

Doodoo wrote:
January 6, 2020, 5:23 am
1) Only one letter doesn’t appear in the periodic table Can you name it
ANSWER at the end...

1) answer is letter "J"
I believe that Q also qualifies.

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Re: Yes it really happened

Post by Doodoo » January 7, 2020, 3:37 pm

I certainly aint no Chemist as Mr Whiting my High School teacher would had attested to ( I flunked the course)

BUT the letter Q
Technically yes it does, however it may not in the future. Currently the only element with a Q in its name is Ununquadium. It is the temporary name of a radioactive chemical element in the periodic table that has the temporary symbol Uuq and has the atomic number 114. Recent chemistry experiments have strongly indicated that element 114 appears to behave as the first superheavy element to show noble-gas-like properties due to relativistic effects. In appearance, it is likely a metal, probably silvery white or metallic gray in color.

So it kinda does and it kinda doesnt
https://www.answers.com/Q/Does_the_lett ... odic_table

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Re: Yes it really happened

Post by Udon Map » January 7, 2020, 4:24 pm

Doodoo wrote:
January 7, 2020, 3:37 pm
I certainly aint no Chemist as Mr Whiting my High School teacher would had attested to ( I flunked the course)

BUT the letter Q
Technically yes it does, however it may not in the future. Currently the only element with a Q in its name is Ununquadium. It is the temporary name of a radioactive chemical element in the periodic table that has the temporary symbol Uuq and has the atomic number 114. Recent chemistry experiments have strongly indicated that element 114 appears to behave as the first superheavy element to show noble-gas-like properties due to relativistic effects. In appearance, it is likely a metal, probably silvery white or metallic gray in color.

So it kinda does and it kinda doesnt
https://www.answers.com/Q/Does_the_lett ... odic_table
That answer in answers.com is from 2009. As you know, elements in the Periodic Table have either one or two letter symbols. Personally, I don't think that temporary names/symbols should count. In any case, element 114's permanent name is flerovium, named after the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia, where it was discovered.

So I'll stick with J and Q. 😉

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Re: Yes it really happened

Post by Doodoo » January 8, 2020, 5:51 am

1) Lungfish can live out of water for several years. It secretes a mucus cocoon and burrows itself under the unbaked earth. It takes in air with its lung through a built-in breathing tube that leads to the surface. A lungfish has both gills and a lung.

2) The oldest fishhook ever found dates back to about 42,000 years ago.

3) Something for the Ladies
Most brands of lipstick contain fish scales

4) Starfish are not fish. Neither are jellyfish

5) There are approximately 32,000 different kinds of fish in the world today, which is more than all the other kinds of vertebrates combined. Scientists are discovering new species all the time

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Re: Yes it really happened

Post by Earnest » January 9, 2020, 3:25 am

Doodoo wrote:
January 7, 2020, 6:00 am
1) Thailand’s name in the Thai language is Prathet Thai, which means “Land of the Free.” It is the only country in Southeast Asia that was never colonized by a European nation. The term may also refer to an ethnic group from which many Thai people descend.

https://www.factretriever.com/thailand-facts
If Prathet Thai means land of the free then what does Prathet Lao mean? The Lao were colonised by the French.

ประเทศ translates as country.

Thai translates as ไทย

Stand easy, old chap.
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Re: Yes it really happened

Post by Doodoo » January 9, 2020, 5:57 am

1) Too much sunlight can damage the algae that live inside coral in shallow water. To protect the algae, which are a main source of sustenance for the coral, the corals fluoresce. This creates proteins that act as a sort of sunscreen for the algae.

2) Just two vestiges of ice remain from our planet's last ice age: the Greenland Ice Sheet and the Antarctic Ice Sheet. The latter of the two is staggering in size. Clocking in at 5.4 million square miles, according to the National Snow & Ice Data Center (NSIDC), it's roughly the size of the continental United States and Mexico combined!

3) A large iceberg from Antarctica contains more than 20 billion gallons of water, which could conceivably supply one million people with drinking water for five years. But this piece of information isn't just a great way to illustrate how massive these icebergs are.
A company in the United Arab Emirates is actually planning to begin towing icebergs from Antarctica to the coast for exactly this reason. The country receives, on average, just four inches of rainfall each year, and is at risk of serious drought in the next 25 years, but may be able to solve the problem with this iceberg water solution.


4) In the Mariana Trench (35,802 feet below the surface), which includes the deepest point on the planet, the water pressure is eight tons per square inch. If you made your way down there, it'd feel like you were holding up nearly 50 jumbo jets.

5) The tallest waterfall you're going to see on land is Angel Falls in Venezuela, which has a drop of over 3,200 feet. But that's nothing compared to the Denmark Strait Cataract, which is an underwater waterfall in between Greenland and Iceland formed by the temperature difference in the water on either side of the strait. When the cold water from the east hits the warmer water from the west, it flows underneath the warm water, with a drop of 11,500 feet. According to the National Ocean Service, the flow rate of the waterfall is more than 123 million cubic feet per second, which is 50,000 times that of Niagara Falls.

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Re: Yes it really happened

Post by Doodoo » January 9, 2020, 5:59 am

The Lao were colonised by the French.
Want talking abut Laos,
Mon Ami

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Re: Yes it really happened

Post by Doodoo » January 10, 2020, 5:45 am

1) Tennis players are not allowed to swear when they are playing in Wimbledon.
Because of this, line judges have to learn curse words in every language so they know when a player has violated the rules.

2) The United States Navy has started using Xbox controllers for their periscopes.
You read that right – because the control stick for periscopes is so complicated, using Xbox controllers reduces the learning time from hours to minutes.

3) A sheep, a duck and a rooster were the first passengers in a hot air balloon.
You read that right – in 1783, the first hot air balloon was launched carrying a sheep, duck, and a rooster.The flight lasted for 8 minutes before landing safely with its passengers.

4) The average male gets bored of a shopping trip after 26 minutes.
Meanwhile, women don’t get tired of shopping until around 2 hours!
So next time you see a couple at a retail store with a bored looking boyfriend, you know they’ve been out for more than half an hour.

5) In the 16th Century, Arab women could initiate a divorce if their husbands didn’t pour coffee for them.
Today, this would be unheard of. But back then, coffee was an integral part of Turkish society. So much so, that it was “grounds” for divorce.
No one knows why exactly this was acceptable, but the fact remains that it was!

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Re: Yes it really happened

Post by Earnest » January 10, 2020, 11:33 pm

Doodoo wrote:
January 9, 2020, 5:59 am
Want talking abut Laos,
Mon Ami
Oh hang on, what are you trying to say here, that you want to chat about Laos? Well, you've come to the right chap, old son because I love the place. \:D/

Here's some Lao facts for you, good Buddy.
The national language is Lao, a tonal language closely related to Thai, although the written scripts differ. English is the most spoken European language.
How about that? You would have thought it was French.
Laos is a predominately Buddhist country and follows the Theravadan school of Buddhism, in common with neighbouring Thailand, Burma and Cambodia. Around thirty percent of the population, particularly those in the highlands, follow animist beliefs.
Yeah, guessed they were Buddhist but 30% Animist? Stab me vitals, readers.
A constitutional monarchy until 1976, Laos is today a one-party dictatorship and one of the world’s last official communist states. It is also one of the world’s poorest countries, heavily reliant on aid.
So if you're sat in your Udon pit bored stupid then why not hop on the Rot Fai and take a trip up to Nong Kahi then to Vientiene on the bus, readers?

Ho, ho, all my quotes can be found here. :mrgreen:

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Re: Yes it really happened

Post by Doodoo » January 11, 2020, 7:58 am

1) Lobster was once considered such a garbage food it could only be fed to prisoners
It may be one of the priciest dishes on fancy menus but lobster used to be so universally disliked that it was only seen fit to feed to prisoners. And even then there were laws restricting how many days in a row they could have it, lest their punishment be too harsh. Did you know some types of lobsters can live forever?

2) There is an island of garbage in the Pacific Ocean that is twice the size of Texas
Perhaps the greatest testament to our modern lifestyle is The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a floating 'island' of plastic and trash. According to a 2018 study it measured at 600,000 square miles—twice the size of Texas—but is undoubtedly bigger now.

3) No, girls aren't inherently bad at math
It's an increasingly outdated fallacy that girls just aren't naturally as good at math as boys. In 2011, however, a study conducted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison used data collected from around the world to disprove this assumption. It seems the male/female gap in mathematical achievement is due to social and cultural circumstances, not biology. This would come as no surprise to these female inventors you never learned about in history class.

4) No, girls aren't inherently bad at math
It's an increasingly outdated fallacy that girls just aren't naturally as good at math as boys. In 2011, however, a study conducted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison used data collected from around the world to disprove this assumption. It seems the male/female gap in mathematical achievement is due to social and cultural circumstances, not biology. This would come as no surprise to these female inventors you never learned about in history class.

5) The marshmallow test was misleading
A famous study referred to as "the marshmallow test" left young children in a room with a jar of marshmallows. They were told if they could wait 15 seconds before eating the treat, they could have another one. Then, the children were studied as they grew up. It turns out, the students who delayed gratification frequently went on to do better at school and work than their study peers. Scientists theorized this was because they had superior willpower. A new study, however, demonstrated that something else might be at play: economics. Children from less affluent backgrounds were less likely to delay gratification because they weren't as accustomed to receiving treats or as convinced such an opportunity would present itself again. This proved that the results of the original test were misinterpreted and economic security was the real predictor of the children's future success. Discover the scientific truth behind ten lies parents often tell their kids.

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Re: Yes it really happened

Post by Stantheman » January 11, 2020, 8:51 am

Guess the girls and math was so important you had To post it twice.

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Post by stattointhailand » January 11, 2020, 12:19 pm

It was extreemmly impwtant to Blonds I surpoz

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Re: Yes it really happened

Post by noosard » January 11, 2020, 2:37 pm

Shopping
Dont need maths just a credit card
Preferably someone elses

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Re: Yes it really happened

Post by Earnest » January 12, 2020, 12:50 am

Doodoo wrote:
January 11, 2020, 7:58 am
3) No, girls aren't inherently bad at math
It's an increasingly outdated fallacy that girls just aren't naturally as good at math as boys.
Where are you getting these 'facts' from, Doo Doo? I hope you're not making it up as you go along.
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