Things everybody should know but for some reason, most don't.
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Darwins Theory of evolution has given us a massively miss understood catchphrase
"Survival of the fittest"
Today the word fit might be used to mean attractive in England. It used to mean healthy as in physical condition. But in Darwins day it referred to shape. He is talking about fitting into a niche like a round peg in a round hole. a 3 toed sloth is not fit by any definition , hey the poor guys even got a sin named after em but they fit a niche and so they survive.
"Survival of the fittest"
Today the word fit might be used to mean attractive in England. It used to mean healthy as in physical condition. But in Darwins day it referred to shape. He is talking about fitting into a niche like a round peg in a round hole. a 3 toed sloth is not fit by any definition , hey the poor guys even got a sin named after em but they fit a niche and so they survive.
Yeeeaah... no, we don't. Cruithne is not a moon. Sadly, it's not a battle station either.redisforever said:
I don't like to tell QI they've done a mistake but it is an asteroid orbiting the sun that just happens to cross earth orbit in a way that made him look like a distant moon with a weird orbit to one guy who decided to publish just that.
All the more reason to live life to the fullest.And that doesn't have to mean skydiving or jumping the grand canyon on a Triumph Bonneville.SaneAmongInsane said:
I'm taking up cycling to compliment my fitness regimen (lost 25 lbs since October) and I've been playing guitar for the last two years (after several people outright told me I was too old to learn an instrument at 24) and plan to keep trying new things until I'm inevitably dragged kicking and screaming back into that cold, dark abyss.
Wow, I didn't know that. That is kinda messed up.Zack Alklazaris said:
OT: PLEASE don't do anything stupid while you're pregnant.
ALSO: Don't do anyone stupid and get pregnant. I live in the south. I see the results of such things. Most ungood.Silvianoshei said:
DAFUQ? At 18 in higher-grade maths they told you that? Bad school! Here in third-world-topia (South Africa) in semi-public school they teach us Pi (may just have been our teacher though) in grade 9.zumbledum said:You will have to blame the school system for this one up to A-level math (18 years old) i was still being told Pi was 22/7.brandon237 said:Ahem...Kermi said:
[HEADING=3]WRONG![/HEADING]
Pi is not a rational number, it never terminates and does not repeat. All rational numbers can be shown in the form x = a/b, Pi, not being rational, cannot be accurately represented by 22/7 as this totally goes against what Pi is, an irrational number.
You can say that Pi is approximately 22/7, although it is as easy to remember 3,14.
Sorry. That may have been a little harsh
OT: Everyone should know that Chernobyl was not a good example of normal nuclear-fission power-generation and that "theory" in English does NOT mean the same, or even a similar thing, to what theory means in science.
Mind this is the same school that tried to tell me Electricity flows from Positive to negative
That is sad, but you learn anyway
Aah, conventional current. Why anyone still uses Conventional for diagrams and stuff is beyond me =/
Yeah, I know, I think they corrected themselves later, but it did lead to some great jokes later in the series, with Rich Hall's asking, "Which moon are we talking about here?" every time the moon came up.Quaxar said:
And on topic again:
From QI... umm... what did I see last... Oh, right, Napoleon wasn't short. He was of average height for the time. All I got now, really.
hmmmm...something from history!
at the beginning of operation barbarossa, german forces outnumbered the red army in most areas by about 4 to 3, in some by as much as 2 to 1.
the american forces in normandy outnumbered the german forces pretty much across the board between 3 to 1 to 4 in 1. the numberical superiority of the western allies was in most cases just as big or even more significant than that of the red army. the current image of the endles hordes of ill equipped and barely trained russian soldiers was largely created in the autobiographies of former german commanders to create the illusion of an enemy that didn't win by combat performance but by sheer numbers.
at the beginning of operation barbarossa, german forces outnumbered the red army in most areas by about 4 to 3, in some by as much as 2 to 1.
the american forces in normandy outnumbered the german forces pretty much across the board between 3 to 1 to 4 in 1. the numberical superiority of the western allies was in most cases just as big or even more significant than that of the red army. the current image of the endles hordes of ill equipped and barely trained russian soldiers was largely created in the autobiographies of former german commanders to create the illusion of an enemy that didn't win by combat performance but by sheer numbers.
Must have missed that episode so far. All I can remember is they brought the topic back in another season to add more false moons.redisforever said:
And an add-on: Napoleon was measured in French feet which were different to British.
It's the same reason a pound of feathers is actually heavier than a pound of gold since feathers are measured imperial (16 ounces = 1 pound) whereas for precious metals one uses the troy weighting which only has 12 ounces in a pound.
Not just yours, sadly. I thought this was strictly an elementary school thing, but no, it seems to have made it's way into HS as well.nklshaz said:
My sister has a problem with this. Even if I tell her "CLOSE THE DOOR", she'll just kinda close it to the point where it touches the door frame, not actually closed. RAGE.Conza said:
Yeah, but cultures all over the world depict him as being whatever they are. There are depictions of him as East Asian, and most of the images of him being European is because the Catholic Church is based there, and they wanted to show him as being like them, white/European. The artists they hired depicted him as being like what they were familiar with. Another reason were the Crusades. They didn't want to show the person they worship looked like the people they're fighting.George Francis Gaspar said:
A girl at my school today, found out (and expressed great shock towards the fact) that snakes, birds and indeed any most egg- laying creatures must reproduce sexually.
God I wish I was kidding.
God I wish I was kidding.
if u have the option to read and check and revize ur words it shudnt look like a fing textmessage!!!
Translated: Why do some people type (and even write, that's when it gets REALLY scary) in text-message language? Word processors existed before text-messaging, and writing existed for far longer than that. People who replace their writing ability like that seem to regress and devolve, to the point where they could be writing in hieroglyphs, for all the sense they make.
Text-language has its own place, and that is text-messaging. And Twitter.
Translated: Why do some people type (and even write, that's when it gets REALLY scary) in text-message language? Word processors existed before text-messaging, and writing existed for far longer than that. People who replace their writing ability like that seem to regress and devolve, to the point where they could be writing in hieroglyphs, for all the sense they make.
Text-language has its own place, and that is text-messaging. And Twitter.
Chocolate is poisonous to humans as well, just in MUCH higher quantitiesColour-Scientist said:
Oh snap you did not just say that. Everybody knows that they exist to screw us over and be maniacally evil.Blunderboy said:That companies exist to make money.
*ahem*
Yes I went there.
People's rights in an arrest and detention before charge. Seriously the amount the police must get away with when they arrest people is ridiculous considering hardly anyone knows their rights. Things such as (in the UK at least) police must tell you their name and station before trying to search you and must give a clear message that you are being arrested and why.