Things you should have known about but until recently, you didn't.

Beasty · 29 Mar 2017 at 15:32

Arkansas and "Arkinsaw" are the same place...

Greebo · 29 Mar 2017 at 15:40

In 18th Century Britain, one in five women were prostitutes.

Werewolf · 29 Mar 2017 at 16:15

Edrof said:
Almost all films with colons in the title are terrible.

But the ones with semi colons in the title are only half as bad.

Dark Light · 29 Mar 2017 at 16:16

MissChief said:
If you do ctrl+shift and the arrow keys you can highlight that section of text and cut/copy or delete/paste a replacement bit of text in you've copied previously, all without picking up the mouse.

Ctrl+A to select all. Home to go to the start of the line and end to go to the end.

I knew that, I just never knew that control skipped words.

Akagi · 29 Mar 2017 at 16:32

subbytna said:
Or drinking a coke?

I say I'm drinking a coke if I'm drinking a coke. If I'm drinking pepsi I say pepsi, if its neither then its cola.

subbytna · 29 Mar 2017 at 16:35

Coke is the brand name for cola, same with pepsi

subbytna · 29 Mar 2017 at 16:37

Fanta was created by the Germans during WWII because they couldn't get materials from the US for their Coke drink. They had to make something else so they came up with Fanta. Kept the factory going during the war

nox_uk · 29 Mar 2017 at 17:38

that wasn't the bit i thought illogical, look at the stats:

- Everest by altitude at ~8.9km
- Mauna Kea by total height (base to summit) at ~10km
- Mount Chimborazo by distance from the centre of the Earth at ~6.3km

Surely Mauna Kea's distance from the centre of the earth is ~10km + (the distance from the centre of the earth to the base) which puts it presumably way more than Mount Chimborazo. Same can be said for Everest.

D.P. · 29 Mar 2017 at 18:10

nox_uk said:
that wasn't the bit i thought illogical, look at the stats:

- Everest by altitude at ~8.9km
- Mauna Kea by total height (base to summit) at ~10km
- Mount Chimborazo by distance from the centre of the Earth at ~6.3km

Surely Mauna Kea's distance from the centre of the earth is ~10km + (the distance from the centre of the earth to the base) which puts it presumably way more than Mount Chimborazo. Same can be said for Everest.

No, that is the entire point. Earth is not a sphere, the summit of Mount Chimborazo is further from the center than Mount Everest is, but Mount Everest's summit is is further from the local sea level than Mount Chimborazo (by 2500meters). Moauna Kea is only 4200meters above the sea level but the base extends 6km under water! The distance of the earths center to the base of Mauna Kea is much lower because it is at the bottom of the abyssal plain, 6000m below sea level and thus 6km closer to earth's center.

Edrof · 29 Mar 2017 at 18:41

Werewolf said:
But the ones with semi colons in the title are only half as bad.

TonyTurbo78 · 29 Mar 2017 at 19:24

Took a glimpse at university challenge the other evening, was only then I realised the contestants do not sit directly above the other contestants as it's always shown on the TV. They had a wide shot of studio, I said to my wife they have changed it, didn't they used to sit directly above the other team....she then explained and I looked very silly for obvious reasons. Only ever seen it flash on TV a few times and always saw the split screen of the teams. DOH!!! There's my biggest dumb moment to date.

nox_uk · 29 Mar 2017 at 19:33

D.P. said:
No, that is the entire point. Earth is not a sphere, the summit of Mount Chimborazo is further from the center than Mount Everest is, but Mount Everest's summit is is further from the local sea level than Mount Chimborazo (by 2500meters). Moauna Kea is only 4200meters above the sea level but the base extends 6km under water! The distance of the earths center to the base of Mauna Kea is much lower because it is at the bottom of the abyssal plain, 6000m below sea level and thus 6km closer to earth's center.

we are definitely missing each other here, i do understand the whole underwater thing etc, I just can't figure how 6.3km from the centre of the earth can EVER be greater than 10km+the distance from the base to the centre of the earth unless the base is actually the other side of the centre of the earth., now had the height been listed as 16km then yes, i could have understood that

nox_uk · 29 Mar 2017 at 19:34

unless you are telling me that everest is less than 6.3km from the centre of the earth yet is still 9km ish high...

Whitewater · 29 Mar 2017 at 19:59

nox_uk said:
Illogical. Is the value for Mount Chimborazo correct?

No it isn't, the value should be 6.4km - an error in my rounding

D.P. · 29 Mar 2017 at 20:07

nox_uk said:
we are definitely missing each other here, i do understand the whole underwater thing etc, I just can't figure how 6.3km from the centre of the earth can EVER be greater than 10km+the distance from the base to the centre of the earth unless the base is actually the other side of the centre of the earth., now had the height been listed as 16km then yes, i could have understood that

Its not 6.3km form the center of the earth, its 6.3km form the local sea level,. The distance form sea level to the center of the earth is another 4000 miles.

nox_uk · 29 Mar 2017 at 20:14

ok the stats for that mountain are wrong. Mount Chimborazo is actually 6,300km from the centre of the earth, not 6.3km...

now it makes complete sense.

nox_uk · 29 Mar 2017 at 20:15

Whitewater said:
No it isn't, the value should be 6.4km - an error in my rounding

still need to round up a bit more, all the way until you get to about 6,400km

Whitewater · 29 Mar 2017 at 20:26

nox_uk said:
still need to round up a bit more, all the way until you get to about 6,400km

I'll get there in the end, it's quite a climb

Dis86 · 29 Mar 2017 at 20:27

Whitewater said:
I'll get there in the end, it's quite a climb

Mensa.

nox_uk · 29 Mar 2017 at 20:27

lol, this had been bugging me over dinner!