Thread: Trivia and other useless but interesting items

Originally Posted by Saitch

I've just been made aware of the fact that Heckle and Jeckle are not crows, but are, in truth, magpies!

Give over, you'll be saying next Pop Eye isn't a sailor who likes Spinach to give him strength & to impress Olive Oil.

Originally Posted by NavyDiver

Mia Culpa or not? It is a land to ship not ship to Ship I will excuse myself and not eat my hat





Also the "Beecroft Weapons Range on the New South Wales south coast." is not in the water of Jervis Bay- Triva 2. I have seen a an SLR fired in JB! I was in the water as usual and not at all happy the the sod firing at a little fish Rifle was pointed very close to me

Did you not Duck Dive & leave your arris in the air?

NOT trivial if your Hindu - Excuse any offense !

"Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan's sweeping new biographical thriller about the "father of the atomic bomb", has opened to a glowing reception around the world. In India, it's been a hit too but some have protested against a scene depicting the scientist reading the Bhagavad Gita, one of Hinduism's holiest books, after sex. Oppenheimer learnt the ancient Sanskrit language and counted the book as one of his favourites.



In July 1945, two days before the explosion of the first atomic bomb in the New Mexico desert, Robert Oppenheimer recited a stanza from the Bhagavad Gita, or The Lord's Song.


Oppenheimer, a theoretical physicist, had been introduced to Sanskrit, the ancient Indian language, and subsequently the Gita, as a teacher in Berkeley years before. The 2,000-year-old Bhagavad Gita is part of the Mahabharata - one of Hinduism's greatest epics - and at 700 verses, the world's longest poem.



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Saw the show Monday Night. Very good yet sad topic. The Ability to read "Sanskrit" and chat in several languages after just a few weeks was amazing and not trival as well!

Cameron's Corner Store is in Qld but has a NSW postcode and an SA phone number. Cameron Corner Store in Cameron Corner < Queensland | Gday Pubs - Enjoy our Great Australian Pubs
Cameron Corner
Queensland
NSW postcode. 2880
08 8091 3872
They also celebrate New Year's Day 3 times in the pub due to the time zones.

This is cool trivia.

"Out of 10.9 million marathon runners, the death rate is 1 per 259,000 participants, compared to 1 death per 52,630 participants in triathlons."

I appreciate this is not a direct comparison! "According to the World Health Organization (WHO), road traffic injuries caused an estimated 1.35 million deaths worldwide in 2016. That is, one person is killed every 26 seconds on average."


My point is running kills a lot less people FYI Triathlons are swimming, then riding and then running.

MIA Culpa I know the Alfred Hospital does OVERTIME for every Melbourne Marathon helpfully keeping this ratio stable perhaps.

Originally Posted by NavyDiver;[URL="tel:3199360"

3199360[/URL]]This is cool trivia.

"Out of 10.9 million marathon runners, the death rate is 1 per 259,000 participants, compared to 1 death per 52,630 participants in triathlons."

I appreciate this is not a direct comparison! "According to the World Health Organization (WHO), road traffic injuries caused an estimated 1.35 million deaths worldwide in 2016. That is, one person is killed every 26 seconds on average."


My point is running kills a lot less people FYI Triathlons are swimming, then riding and then running.

MIA Culpa I know the Alfred Hospital does OVERTIME for every Melbourne Marathon helpfully keeping this ratio stable perhaps.

Is it just me, or does the idea that 10.9 million people run marathons disturb anyone else??

Originally Posted by Tins

Is it just me, or does the idea that 10.9 million people run marathons disturb anyone else??

Never seen that number myself John


"Google says people should use its search engine to check whether information provided by its chatbot, Bard, is actually accurate.


Some have suggested chatbots like Bard and ChatGPT could "kill" traditional search, which is dominated by Google.


But users have found the information they provide can be wrong or even entirely made up.


Google's UK boss Debbie Weinstein said Bard was "not really the place that you go to search for specific information".



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Trust is funny Be Skeptical I say

So, AI is lying to us???? Nooooooo!!!!!