Thread: Trivia and other useless but interesting items

Originally Posted by NavyDiver

Just chatting via another forum about an amazing Australian business which is raising money to do its amazing business 'development' The word 'developing' is missed by some investors who what CASH NOW


(Hydrogen and Graphite) NOT INVESTMENT ADVICE

My response gave me some cool trivia.

The Steering Wheel Was Invented Eight Years After The First Car. Karl Benz


then 7 Scientists whose ideas were rejected during their lifetimes


7 Scientists whose ideas were rejected during their lifetimes


The Washing your hands one is a bit OMG for the time
In 1847 Semmelweis, who was an obstetrician, (a doctor specializing in childbirth), published evidence that when doctors washed their hands before examining or treating patients, the mortality rate for women in his birthing ward in Vienna, Austria, was greatly reduced

Further to your trivia, suggesting the steering wheel was invented eight years after the first car, is a little misleading. By the time of Benz's cars in the 1880s, steam road vehicles had been around for nearly 100 years - and some of them used steering wheels, as did most steam traction engines, which had become relatively common by Benz's time. In any case, the steering wheel had been in pretty general use in many ships and boats for two centuries before Benz. But many motoring pioneers preferred tiller steering, and Lanchester used it in production vehicles up to about 1912.

And a bit of trivia about Semmelweiss - as a reward for insisting on doctors in his hospital washed their hands - he got fired. Perhaps because he was Hungarian, not Austrian, and the hospital was in Vienna, but his "lunatic ideas", which he pursued by publication and publicly criticizing doctors who ignored him, calling the murderers, he was put in a lunatic asylum and soon died from injuries, possibly as a result of being beatedn by guards.

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Originally Posted by NavyDiver

Just chatting via another forum about an amazing Australian business which is raising money to do its amazing business 'development' The word 'developing' is missed by some investors who what CASH NOW


(Hydrogen and Graphite) NOT INVESTMENT ADVICE

My response gave me some cool trivia.

The Steering Wheel Was Invented Eight Years After The First Car. Karl Benz


then 7 Scientists whose ideas were rejected during their lifetimes


7 Scientists whose ideas were rejected during their lifetimes

.........

Which lends yet MORE proof of that old meme.... "Science advances One Funeral at a Time".. --- Polly Matzinger, who was 'blocked' from publishing her science.... till the editor of that journal .... Died. Polly Matzinger - Biography, Facts and Pictures

Then there is the 'Voldemort' elephant in the room, of Ignatz's defining personal details, such as'....

Not only, but also the aspect of being incarcerated in a mental institution where his life was (knowingly, I'd allege...) put in jeopardy. Sadly it was.

But that would. 'Never EVAH'.... happen Today.

--- Milankovich is STILL. not well-known / studiously ignored to the point his. weird idea belongs in a loony bin.

To misquote scripture,,,, "There arise Engineers who know not Pharaoh Benz..." but worship 'Joystick Steering' & Self-Drive. ;

Could be in Jokes - You brought up 'arise Engineers'

An Engineer dies and goes to hell. He's hot and miserable, so he decides to take action. The A/C has been busted for a long time, so he fixes it. Things cool down quickly.
The moving walkway motor jammed, so he unjams it. People can get from place to place more easily.
The TV was grainy and unclear, so he fixes the connection to the Satellite dish and now they get hundreds of high def channels.
One day, God decides to look down on Hell to see how his grand design is working out and notices that everyone is happy and enjoying umbrella drinks. He asks the Devil what's going on?
The Devil replies, "Things are great down here since you sent us that engineer."
"What?? An engineer? I didn't send you one of those, that must have been a mistake. Send him back up right this minute."
The Devil responds, "No way! We are going to keep our engineer. We like this guy."
God demands, "If you don't send him to me immediately, I'll sue!"
The Devil laughs. "Where are YOU going to get a lawyer?"

cleaning out my junk room. over the past 20years i have collected every pen that ive been given
i then went and tested them all.
90% of the pens no longer work
the 10% that did were either retractable or had a lid
pencils dont go off

Originally Posted by Eevo

cleaning out my junk room. over the past 20years i have collected every pen that ive been given
i then went and tested them all.
90% of the pens no longer work
the 10% that did were either retractable or had a lid
pencils dont go off

Reminds me of early days of us / USSR. space race days... Yanks trashed zillions on a biro that operated in zero-G... Russkis merely shrugged, - and continued to use PENCILS.

"Fauja Singh, a British-Indian man believed to be the world's oldest marathon runner, has died after being hit by a car in India at the age of 114.Police say Singh was crossing a road in the village where he was born in Punjab when an unidentified vehicle hit him. Locals took him to hospital, where he died.
Singh, a global icon, set records by running marathons across multiple age categories, including when he was over 100. He began running at 89 and ran nine full marathons between 2000 and 2013, when he retired.
His running club and charity, Sikhs In The City, said its upcoming events in Ilford, east London, where he had lived since 1992, would be a celebration of his life and achievements."

Honestly dying on the job may suite some of us nutters

RIP Fauja Singh

Originally Posted by NavyDiver

.......]Fauja Singh, a British-Indian man believed to be the world's oldest marathon runner, has died after being hit by a car in India at the age of 114,.......

Just seen this on a couple of news bulletins, and they say ''believed to be'' as he didn't have a birth certificate, so no Guiness World Record.

Which reminds me of a story, one the Guiness heirs was in a car accident, and taken to hospital, when he got there he was asked if he earned 11 000 pounds (a year) to qualify for the NHS subsidised treatment and he said, '' Some days I do, some days I don't. "

All that running made him a happy chappy going by the look on his face.

Americans claim 13.8 shark is BIG? The biggest Great White they have tagged!


7 metres is the BIG one.

I wonder if any South Oz or South African have been tagged- Suspect so!



Cuban one was killed saddly. I like fish

• Length: Reported at 21 feet (6.4 meters)
• Weight: Estimated to be over 7,000 pounds (3,175 kilograms)

While there was some controversy surrounding the exact measurements, the Cuban great white remains one of the largest sharks ever documented.


These are The 5 Largest Great White Sharks Ever Recorded - Animals Around The Globe


Killing another In 1987, a massive great white shark was caught off the coast of Malta. This catch remains one of the largest confirmed specimens in history.

• Length: Approximately 23 feet (7 meters)
• Weight: Estimated to be around 5,000 pounds (2,268 kilograms)

The Malta shark's impressive size has been verified by marine biologists, making it one of the largest great whites ever recorded.

I almost rode a 6 metre tiger once is other trivia that caused a few Navy types to suffer PTSD honest! RIP pilot