TIL: Today I Learned... (2 Viewers)

[bigdaddysaints]

TIL (at least on the cruise ship I'm on)
that elevators ding once if going up and twice if going down. i guess i never really paid attention to that the other 1000 times I've ridden an elevator..

 

[KiwiSaint]

Today I learned about Pelorus Jack.
Pelorus Jack (fl. 1888 – April 1912) was a Risso's dolphin that was famous for meeting and escorting ships through a stretch of water in Cook Strait, New Zealand, for 24 years between 1888 and 1912.

Pelorus Jack - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Here’s his memorial at French Pass, NZ. Visited in April.

 

[kizzy821]

I don't why I'm only realizing this (likely due to ego).

But I've always assumed that I could explain anything to anyone. That if I just used the right words and analogies; painted a vivid enough picture; give it enough time...

Eventually, I could get you to understand where I was coming from. Not agree with me per se, but to understand me.

TIR that my words are only as effective as the recipient's capacity to process them.

You can describe something in the most articulate way, with all the relevant details. But if the recipient is limited (intellectually/cognitively), it's like trying to describe a rainbow to someone with no sight.

I've probably spent half my life asking blind people to picture a rainbow.

 

[Madmarsha]

TIL what knolling is. Knolling is simply the process of arranging objects so they are parallel or at 90-degree angles. It helps keep everything organised and when photographed creates clean, noticeable images.

Having trouble distinguishing it from anal retentiveness, though.

 

[Sailorsaint]

TIL what knolling is. Knolling is simply the process of arranging objects so they are parallel or at 90-degree angles. It helps keep everything organised and when photographed creates clean, noticeable images.

Having trouble distinguishing it from anal retentiveness, though.

My guess would have been something about grass, knolls, a rifle......

 

[Brad Mojo]

I don't why I'm only realizing this (likely due to ego).

But I've always assumed that I could explain anything to anyone. That if I just used the right words and analogies; painted a vivid enough picture; give it enough time...

Eventually, I could get you to understand where I was coming from. Not agree with me per se, but to understand me.

TIR that my words are only as effective as the recipient's capacity to process them.

You can describe something in the most articulate way, with all the relevant details. But if the recipient is limited (intellectually/cognitively), it's like trying to describe a rainbow to someone with no sight.

I've probably spent half my life asking blind people to picture a rainbow.

This is the reason I gave up discussing politics with almost all people.

 

[Sailorsaint]

TIL: In 2009 Stephen Hawking threw a lavish party at Cambridge. No one showed. The next day he sent out the invitations. He said if time travel was real, someone in the future would have shown up. He explained that he liked simple experiments….and champagne.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

TIL: In 2009 Stephen Hawking threw a lavish party at Cambridge. No one showed. The next day he sent out the invitations. He said if time travel was real, someone in the future would have shown up. He explained that he liked simple experiments….and champagne.

Plot twist- he did all this in 2029

 

[baarbogast]

Some environmentalist is going to ruin the party

 

[0rion]

TIL.....the jalapeno peppers I had yesterday were spicier than they seemed.

 

[Madmarsha]

TIL.....the jalapeno peppers I had yesterday were spicier than they seemed.

TMI

 

[Booker]

TIL...

 

[GW93]

Today (actually yesterday, but I didn't get around to posting in this thread until today) I learned the U.S. military has freaking SWORD MISSILES!

THIS IS AMERICA’S HELLFIRE MISSILE FULL OF SWORDS THAT TOOK OUT AL-QAEDA’S LEADER​

 

[mjcouvi]

THIS IS AMERICA’S HELLFIRE MISSILE FULL OF SWORDS THAT TOOK OUT AL-QAEDA’S LEADER​

Progress I guess. Evidently it can target a single passenger in a car:

 

[Mr. Blue Sky]

TIL that, contrary to popular belief and what ive thought all my life- Sandy Duncan does NOT have a prosthetic (glass) eye.. she lost the vision in her left eye due to a brain tumor 50 yrs ago, but it’s her real eye .