Thread: Trivia and other useless but interesting items

Originally Posted by RANDLOVER

"When is fifteen minutes equal to one second ? You will sleep better knowing this
Cheers Hall"



I was going to say when a person is dead.

It's all relative.

On the 2001 A Space Odyssey theme. 'Daisy' song that HAL sings when being shut down is somewhat ironic as the IBM 7094 demonstrated this same song in 1961. One of the first big mainframes.

Hot water will turn into ice faster than cold water.

"Mpemba effect", Found by a Tanzanian student who discovered that a hot ice cream mix freezes faster than a cold mix in the 60s

A quarter of the world's people will develop a mental health condition during their lifetime, according to the World Health Organisation.
One in seven children will have a mental condition before reaching age 16.

Common conditions include anxiety, separation anxiety, obsessive-compulsive actions, PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) and depression.
Mental health, which is about wellness, should be thought of as being on a scale from low to high, and may vary normally because of life events and other causes. It's not black and white at all, its very complex and each person is unique.

For more on this I recommend the Beyond Blue website. There are short quizzes for adults and children which can help to highlight areas which may need support, and many informative sections and resources.

Society needs to talk more about mental health, and not sweep it under the carpet, I think.

Children (0 - 12)

Charles Dickens named three of his children "Flaster Floby", " Lucifer Box" and "Chickenstalker."

Originally Posted by Saitch

The Nazi uniforms were created by Hugo Boss.

not designed, only manufactured.

The Rover Company was the company first involved in developing jet engines in Britain, working with Frank Whittle and his company Power Jets from 1940. Following friction with Whittle, partly because they redesigned his engine (with Air Ministry approval) without telling him, Rover organised a deal with Rolls Royce to swap their jet engine activities for the contract and equipment to build Meteor Tank engines.

The first operational RR jet engine was the Welland, based on Whittles design, with some input from Rover, was the first engine to power the Gloster Meteor in 1943, but was later replaced by the Rover designed and RR developed Derwent.

Rover used their knowledge gained in this exercise to produce prototype turbine powered cars in 1949-50.

Originally Posted by Hall

When is fifteen minutes equal to one second ? You will sleep better knowing this
Cheers Hall

Don't you mean when is 15 minutes equal to 60 seconds?

DL

I think you are right - although I think he meant "when does fifteen minutes equal one minute".

15degrees (longitude) = 1 hour (time) from 360/24

convert to minutes and divide by 60

15x60/60 =15 minutes longitude = 60/60 = 1 minute time = 60 seconds time