Did you know...
Looking at a statue...
If the horses front feet air both in the air, the soldier died in battle
If one of the horses feet is in the air, the soldier died as a result of injuries off the battlefield
If both feet are on the floor, the soldier died of natural causes
Yeah...
Whenever a child weeps, parents of that child start worrying about their behavior. Japan Scientist invents an instrument which will tell the reason why the child weeps. It will tell why he’s weeping by recognizing his behavior and tell his parent whether he is hunger or he is feeling uncomforted due to his clothes. Inventors say its accuracy is about 96% and it will really helpful for the people who have newly born baby and not able to understand the basic necessities of their child.
The first pilot to receive the award had to have 8 aerial victories. By January 1917 the requirements had been raised to sixteen victories. During the same conflict, the medal was also awarded to U Boat captains who had sunk 190,000 tons of enemy shipping.
Something small, yet interesting
Did you know...
That while some substances are considered to be toxic, EVERYTHING can cause negative effects in the body. For instance, some examples:
- Salt: If you put the equivalent of 1 normal spoon directly in your blood (if you try to swallow that amount of salt you would throw up normally) you die.
- Water: There was a case of someone who drank 20lt of water in half an hour. He died. Literally, you can dilute.
- Oxygen: If there is a high level of oxygen in your blood (excesive ventilation) the pH of the blood rises and you get respiratory alkalosis affecting the musles (you can get tetany)
So please, don't do anything in excess (except for thinking, you just need more nutrients) :LOL:
there are NO Leap Years on century years, UNLESS they are also divisible by 400...So if you're reading this you likely have just lived through the once-in-every-several-thousand-years event of the millennial year 2000 having NOT been a leap year for that rare reason!
England is old and small, so in the Middle Ages they started running out of places to bury people. So, they would dig up coffins and would take their bones to a house and re-use the grave. In reopening these coffins, one out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive. So they thought they would tie a string on their wrist and lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night to listen for the bell. Hence on the ‘graveyard shift’ they would know that someone was ‘saved by the bell’, or he was a ‘dead ringer’.
England is old and small, so in the Middle Ages they started running out of places to bury people. So, they would dig up coffins and would take their bones to a house and re-use the grave. In reopening these coffins, one out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive. So they thought they would tie a string on their wrist and lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night to listen for the bell. Hence on the ‘graveyard shift’ they would know that someone was ‘saved by the bell’, or he was a ‘dead ringer’.
[while touring a small church in Norfolk]
"...it isn't because the church is sinking...How many people do you suppose are buried here?"
I glanced appraisingly at the gravestones and said, "I don't know. Eighty? A hundred?"
"I think that's probably a bit of an underestimate...A country parish likes this has an average of 250 people in it, which translates into roughly a thousand adult deaths per century, plus a few thousand more poor souls that never reached maturity. Multiply that by the number of centuries the church has been here and what you have is...probably something more like twenty thousand...That's a lot of mass...It's why the ground has risen three feet...There are a thousand parishes in Norfolk...From here you can see into perhaps ten or twelve other parishes, so you are probably looking at roughly a quarter million burials...in a place that has never been anything but quiet and rural, where nothing much has ever happened."
England is old and small, so in the Middle Ages they started running out of places to bury people. So, they would dig up coffins and would take their bones to a house and re-use the grave. In reopening these coffins, one out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive. So they thought they would tie a string on their wrist and lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night to listen for the bell. Hence on the ‘graveyard shift’ they would know that someone was ‘saved by the bell’, or he was a ‘dead ringer’.
England is old and small, so in the Middle Ages they started running out of places to bury people. So, they would dig up coffins and would take their bones to a house and re-use the grave. In reopening these coffins, one out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive. So they thought they would tie a string on their wrist and lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night to listen for the bell. Hence on the ‘graveyard shift’ they would know that someone was ‘saved by the bell’, or he was a ‘dead ringer’.
A little learning is a dangerous thing...
"Saved by the bell" is a boxing idiom.
"Dead ringer" comes from horse racing - one horse would be swapped for another, similar-looking, one just before the race.
"Graveyard shift" comes from the US and has nothing to do with listening to bells.
All three of these come from the US originally anyway.
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/saved-by-the-bell.html
Did you know that, if you ever want to work out how many seconds there are in a year without using a calculator, just tell whichever nub is asking you that (look it up, sheesh!) that it's "pi"*107? Pi as in 3.14159265358979323...
This is bizarrely a seriously good approximation, giving you an answer of 31,415,927 seconds when the "real" answer is closer to 31,557,000 seconds. But it's a very good approximation and even has the advantage of possible cancelling out with any other pi you may have in the sum.
It's very important to have a lot of sleep, obviously. Teenagers suffer from sleeplessness a lot, not just because of the strange hours they keep... but also because it's just part of growing up - they need a fair amount of sleep still and yet feel less tired at night than they ought to.