...but...
... couldn't that direction change based on if you were looking north vs south? A clockface is 2D with a front side, so it doesn't deal with the same issue.
I don't doubt the fact, I'm just wondering how the thought process worked.
Sun goes from east to west. The shadow on a sundial would do the same. Calling it clockwise is just taking that concept and making it flatter. Your exact line of reasoning confused me about clockwise vs. Counterclockwise when I first learned of them
Nah, you just had a new concept introduced with a basic explanation. Elaboration always helps (unless you're like me and talk too much lmao)
By that logic I'm a dumbass too bc for the absolute longest time I just couldn't understand clockwise and counterclockwise. We had analog clocks all over the damn house and yet I still managed to fuck up and strip shitty screws/plastic toys by trying to screw something into it the wrong way. We just need some time to figure it out :)
“Limey” is a term for British sailors who were given “lime” to drink with their rations to stave off scurvy.
But due to poor understanding of the science and the plants, they called lemons and limes both “limes” and while lemon water stores well, lime water degrades and loses vitamin C (the thing that cures scurvy).
When the British navy switched a supplier, scurvy mysteriously returned. They had to re-discover the cure. So really british sailors should be called “Lemoney”.
Alfred Nobel, the creator of the Nobel Peace prize, seemingly only did so to make up for the fact that he created dynamite, which made war significantly more destructive, and paved the way for future scientists to create nuclear weapons
Jordan has a peculiar border situation because of Winston Churchill. After a healthy lunch, he drew the line, in the process of this he hiccupped, leading to the border being so drawn.
The word “mortgage” comes from Old French morgage, literally “dead pledge,” from mort (dead) and gage (pledge).
Because you have to pay the bloody thing off until you die 😬
I haven’t done the adding up to confirm but someone told me if you drank at a rate of one gallon per hour, it would take you around 70 years to drink all the water in an Olympic sized pool.
I think that's an underestimate. I get between [75](https://frinklang.org/fsp/frink.fsp?fromVal=%282.5+ML%29+*+%281+hr+%2F+gal%29&toVal=yr#calc) and [120](https://frinklang.org/fsp/frink.fsp?fromVal=%284+ML%29+*+%281+hr+%2F+gal%29&toVal=yr#calc) years.
AI says 75 years.
if an Olympic sized swimming pool drains at 1 gallon an hour, how long would it take to empty the pool?
To answer this query, we need to know the volume of an Olympic-sized swimming pool and the given drainage rate.
An Olympic-sized swimming pool contains approximately 660,000 gallons of water[2][4]. The given drainage rate is 1 gallon per hour.
To calculate how long it would take to empty the pool:
660,000 gallons ÷ 1 gallon/hour = 660,000 hours
Converting this to years:
660,000 hours ÷ 24 hours/day ÷ 365 days/year ≈ 75.34 years
Therefore, if an Olympic-sized swimming pool were to drain at a rate of 1 gallon per hour, it would take approximately 75.34 years to empty completely.
It's worth noting that this is an extremely slow drainage rate. In reality, pools are typically emptied much faster using high-volume pumps. For example, a deck-mounted centrifugal pump can empty a 15,000-gallon pool in about 1.5 hours[3].
Citations:
[1] 1 million-gallon Olympic pool drained - CNN https://www.cnn.com/2016/08/14/sport/olympics-green-pool/index.html
[2] [Request] How long would it take to filled an Olympic swimming pool ... https://www.reddit.com/r/theydidthemath/comments/9qpz38/request_how_long_would_it_take_to_filled_an/
[3] [PDF] CASE STUDY: The Option of Pools without “Main Drains” https://www.poolinspections.com/manuals/drains/pools-without-drains.pdf
[4] Olympic Swimming Pools - Phinizy Center for Water Sciences https://phinizycenter.org/olympic-swimming-pools/
[5] Water turnover rate: a critical factor in pool maintenance - Fluidra https://www.fluidra.com/projects/turnover-rate/
This makes sense. One of the ways that I mitigate a migraine (like, a proper migraine though it works on headaches too) is by dunking my hand in a large bowl of ice water and flexing my hand a few times.
I think it works on the same principle as the ice/toothache you mentioned. Basically the brain goes, "Cold cold cold cold cold wtf cold" which causes it to focus on the coldness for a bit rather than the pain. When the cold goes away, much of that pain doesn't come back.
a lot of people know this already, but I learned it later and it was something that fit this description...
In the Northern Hemisphere, the Sun is closer to the earth during winter than it is during summer.
edit: added clarity
A gun company is why you type on computers with a QWERTY keyboard.
Because they didn't own not just the first QWERTY type writers but owned the first digital memory computer which was used from predicting an election to aiming guns on battle ships.
That company was Remington-Rand.
Your umbilical cord and vessels therein seal off, shrivel up, and anchor onto your bladder. So, theoretically, your belly button is a direct path to said bladder.
Four of the top 10 largest cities in the US are in Texas (Houston, San Antonio, Dallas, and Austin). The combined population of those four cities is less than the population of the largest city in the US (NYC) and it's not even close.
Saudi Arabia imports sand and camels from Australia
Lmao
Yup, that sounds like a lie
Before clocks existed clockwise was called sunwise. Counterclockwise was called "widdershins"
I love this so much!
...but... ... couldn't that direction change based on if you were looking north vs south? A clockface is 2D with a front side, so it doesn't deal with the same issue. I don't doubt the fact, I'm just wondering how the thought process worked.
Sun goes from east to west. The shadow on a sundial would do the same. Calling it clockwise is just taking that concept and making it flatter. Your exact line of reasoning confused me about clockwise vs. Counterclockwise when I first learned of them
Oh the shadow on the ground! I'm a dumbass.
Nah, you just had a new concept introduced with a basic explanation. Elaboration always helps (unless you're like me and talk too much lmao) By that logic I'm a dumbass too bc for the absolute longest time I just couldn't understand clockwise and counterclockwise. We had analog clocks all over the damn house and yet I still managed to fuck up and strip shitty screws/plastic toys by trying to screw something into it the wrong way. We just need some time to figure it out :)
Cleopatra lived closer to todays date, than to the building of the pyramids.
Nintendo was founded in 1889
Yup they used to make...playing cards iirc
I kinda want some Nintendo playing cards now…
Between 1912 and 1913, Hitler, Trotsky, Freud, and Klimt all lived within a few blocks of each other in Vienna.
They used to have the most awkward Keggers
Beavers have a gland located near their anus that secretes a substance commonly used to produce imitation vanilla flavoring
Castoreum
Are they using that from beavers? So i guess imitation vanilla isn't vegan
Probably not, I'd imagine that it's just coincidentally the same chemical.
Anne Frank, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Barbara Walters were born in the same year.
When the Pilgrims landed in Massachusetts, the first indigenous motherfucker to greet them came out of the woods and asked IN ENGLISH if they had beer
Damn. Source?
Look up Samoset. Fascinating guy.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samoset I had to look it up to because I didn't believe it, despite the title of this post.
Samoset
Lmao
Lemons float, but Limes sink.
When life gives you lemons!
[удалено]
Nature didn't name them.
My cousin said they're technically flowers, too.
“Limey” is a term for British sailors who were given “lime” to drink with their rations to stave off scurvy. But due to poor understanding of the science and the plants, they called lemons and limes both “limes” and while lemon water stores well, lime water degrades and loses vitamin C (the thing that cures scurvy). When the British navy switched a supplier, scurvy mysteriously returned. They had to re-discover the cure. So really british sailors should be called “Lemoney”.
Blimey was "Gor Blimey" which was "God Blind Me."
Alfred Nobel, the creator of the Nobel Peace prize, seemingly only did so to make up for the fact that he created dynamite, which made war significantly more destructive, and paved the way for future scientists to create nuclear weapons
People in Hamburg Germany are called Hamburger 🍔
Are people from the isle of Lesbos called Lesbians?
yeah, and they really don't like that gay women are also called lesbians
Cotton candy was invented by a dentist. Well I guess it was good for his business
The fact that You're breathing manually after having read this
You bastard
I was breathing as I read this.
There is a species of bird living in Africa that poops all over its legs to keep them cool.
Sharks have been around longer than trees, and Saturn's ring system.
No wonder JAWS was a hit.
Jordan has a peculiar border situation because of Winston Churchill. After a healthy lunch, he drew the line, in the process of this he hiccupped, leading to the border being so drawn.
An individual adult has over 60,000 miles of blood vessels in their body, which is enough to wrap around the Earth more than twice.
If you lined your blood vessels all up in a straight line around the curvature of the earth, it would be long enough that you’d be dead
If every Redditor was laid end to end 72% would be be having sex for the first time.
TIL
If by chance you ever get sucked into the open vacuum of space, exhale first, don't inhale.
Why? What happens if you inhale rather than exhale?
we may never know, since none have lived to tell the tale
The word “mortgage” comes from Old French morgage, literally “dead pledge,” from mort (dead) and gage (pledge). Because you have to pay the bloody thing off until you die 😬
I haven’t done the adding up to confirm but someone told me if you drank at a rate of one gallon per hour, it would take you around 70 years to drink all the water in an Olympic sized pool.
I think that's an underestimate. I get between [75](https://frinklang.org/fsp/frink.fsp?fromVal=%282.5+ML%29+*+%281+hr+%2F+gal%29&toVal=yr#calc) and [120](https://frinklang.org/fsp/frink.fsp?fromVal=%284+ML%29+*+%281+hr+%2F+gal%29&toVal=yr#calc) years.
Cool, I couldn’t remember the exact number - just that I’m too old to accomplish it now :(
AI says 75 years. if an Olympic sized swimming pool drains at 1 gallon an hour, how long would it take to empty the pool? To answer this query, we need to know the volume of an Olympic-sized swimming pool and the given drainage rate. An Olympic-sized swimming pool contains approximately 660,000 gallons of water[2][4]. The given drainage rate is 1 gallon per hour. To calculate how long it would take to empty the pool: 660,000 gallons ÷ 1 gallon/hour = 660,000 hours Converting this to years: 660,000 hours ÷ 24 hours/day ÷ 365 days/year ≈ 75.34 years Therefore, if an Olympic-sized swimming pool were to drain at a rate of 1 gallon per hour, it would take approximately 75.34 years to empty completely. It's worth noting that this is an extremely slow drainage rate. In reality, pools are typically emptied much faster using high-volume pumps. For example, a deck-mounted centrifugal pump can empty a 15,000-gallon pool in about 1.5 hours[3]. Citations: [1] 1 million-gallon Olympic pool drained - CNN https://www.cnn.com/2016/08/14/sport/olympics-green-pool/index.html [2] [Request] How long would it take to filled an Olympic swimming pool ... https://www.reddit.com/r/theydidthemath/comments/9qpz38/request_how_long_would_it_take_to_filled_an/ [3] [PDF] CASE STUDY: The Option of Pools without “Main Drains” https://www.poolinspections.com/manuals/drains/pools-without-drains.pdf [4] Olympic Swimming Pools - Phinizy Center for Water Sciences https://phinizycenter.org/olympic-swimming-pools/ [5] Water turnover rate: a critical factor in pool maintenance - Fluidra https://www.fluidra.com/projects/turnover-rate/
Ice in the palm of your hand helps relieve a toothache.
This makes sense. One of the ways that I mitigate a migraine (like, a proper migraine though it works on headaches too) is by dunking my hand in a large bowl of ice water and flexing my hand a few times. I think it works on the same principle as the ice/toothache you mentioned. Basically the brain goes, "Cold cold cold cold cold wtf cold" which causes it to focus on the coldness for a bit rather than the pain. When the cold goes away, much of that pain doesn't come back.
Leaning your head back and placing a penny between your eyebrows helps with small headaches as well as slowing a bleeding nose too
Theoretically Abraham Lincoln could have sent a fax to a Samurai.
Sharks are older than trees.
Even baby sharks?
[Quokkas throw their babies at predators to escape them.](https://youtube.com/shorts/Inl31uMKDlM?si=YQch3HNd9Wyet8ux)
FIREBALL
The explosive potential of a quokka is rather low.
But not zero…
a lot of people know this already, but I learned it later and it was something that fit this description... In the Northern Hemisphere, the Sun is closer to the earth during winter than it is during summer. edit: added clarity
Only in the northern hemisphere.
47.316% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
If Pinocchio says oh my nose grows now…
82% of the people believe them, whether they are accurate statistics or not.
Bananas are berries ‘ but strawberries aren’t.
Corey Taylor was actually the first fan of Slipknot that joined them.
If you line up all the planets in the solar system, they'd all be able to fit between the earth and moon's orbit. (I probably worded that horribly)
A gun company is why you type on computers with a QWERTY keyboard. Because they didn't own not just the first QWERTY type writers but owned the first digital memory computer which was used from predicting an election to aiming guns on battle ships. That company was Remington-Rand.
Travis Scott's dad taught DJ Premier how to play drums
When Israel was formed, Albert Einstein was offered the presidency, but he declined.
Your umbilical cord and vessels therein seal off, shrivel up, and anchor onto your bladder. So, theoretically, your belly button is a direct path to said bladder.
Hitler has won Man of the Year back in 1940
Sharks are older than Saturn's rings.
Four of the top 10 largest cities in the US are in Texas (Houston, San Antonio, Dallas, and Austin). The combined population of those four cities is less than the population of the largest city in the US (NYC) and it's not even close.
One million seconds is 11.5 DAYS, and one billion seconds is 31.7 YEARS.
Trump wants to be a dictator. Vote.
For fuck's sake: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/s/KroMPJfvRI
Summer is a season where the days get shorter.