GM TIMELY FACTS Why do we have 60 minutes in an hour? The answer my (5 year old) granddaughter gave: Because that is how many clicks there are on the clock. The answer the interwebby thing gave: THE DIVISION of the hour into 60 minutes and of the minute into 60 seconds comes from the Babylonians wh...

Jamiet99uk wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 01, 2023 2:38 pm

@Wusti why did you skip 1578 to 1587?

and why did the rest of us not notice? lol
TIME WARP

OOOPS
Fish does not have a super-vote power of 4.
so Chaqa has ONE vote on him.
Sorry...

In 1589 the Grand Duke Ferdinando de' Medici and the French princess Christine of Lorraine married... a catalyst for many years of connection and intrigue between Firenze and France. (The two flags are even similar.) Apparently, the wedding was the social, political, and artistic event of the year.

FACT UAL Differences Between "Star Wars" and "Star Trek" "Star Trek": "... where no man has gone before." "Star Wars": Where has Hamill's career gone? "Star Trek": Reroute the plasma inverters from the warp drive through the main deflector grid after reversing phase polarity on the pattern buffers....

A bit of tactical fluff Around 1620, the word TACTICS began to appear as a noun, describing the methodology of arranging and controlling military forces for combat. It’s origin was a ‘modern’ (17th century) Latin word, “tactica,’ which in turn has its origin in the greek, “tactikos,” referring to ‘...

Absolutely no change in the vote count. BUT... The Burger King brand is the second largest fast food burger brand globally as measured by the total number of restaurants with a global network of over 18000 (more than 3000, obviously) restaurants in more than 100 countries and U.S. territories as at ...

Some Handy Facts 1. One hand contains 28 bones. This means that 56 of your body’s 206 bones are located just in your hands. 2. There are no actual muscles located in your fingers and thumbs. Instead, your digits move by the action of almost 40 muscles located in your forearm and hand. The tendons o...

ABSOLUTE fact thing:

"Incorrectly" is the only word that whether spelled incorrectly or correctly is always spelled incorrectly.

FACT TYPE THING:

Quiet is the absence of sound. Silence is the presence of silence. (R. Fripp)

GM FACTOID... motived this morning by the strange timing of night and day in Mafia at the moment: You might think that the lengths of the day and night would be equal during the equinox. As it turns out, this is only approximately true. The lengths of the day and night aren’t quite the same, and th...

GM NOTE OF RANDOM FACTUALIZATION OF NAUTICAL IDIOMS. (this is long... as I compiled this list, with a lot of plagiarism, I just kept adding! But I was out of pocket yesterday, and missed opportunities. I hope you larn summat.) 1. Feeling blue Feeling blue is an idiom we use a lot when we are feeling...

Are they in a story with multiple atories? Meaning are there more than one tale... like richard sharp, or sherlock holmes, as opposed to bob cratchit?

Occam’s razor, also spelled Ockham’s razor, also called law of economy or law of parsimony, principle stated by the Scholastic philosopher William of Ockham (1285–1347/49) that pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate, “plurality should not be posited without necessity.” The principle gives prece...

As a noun, tie comes from the Old English teag, meaning ,"cord, band, thong, fetter." Literally "that with which anything is tied. " However the English borrows from Proto-Germanic *taugo (source also of Old Norse taug "tie," tygill "string"), and from PIE root *deuk- "to lead" (source also of Old E...

(I think I did ONE koala fact earlier... but who is reading the thread anyway? SO... here are ten Koala Random Facts. 1. KOALAS AREN’T BEARS – THEY’RE MARSUPIALS. You may have heard our fluffy friends referred to as ‘koala bears’ because of their bear-like ears and big, black noses. But in fact, ko...

What’s actually going on with Yoda, linguistically? First, let’s examine how Yoda doesn’t speak. Many of the world’s most-spoken languages—English, Mandarin—are built around constructions that go subject-verb-object. An example would be: Yoda grasped the lightsaber. Another common construction, and ...

Whenever you see blood outside your body, it looks red. Why? Human blood is red because of the protein hemoglobin, which contains a red-colored compound called heme that’s crucial for carrying oxygen through your bloodstream. Heme contains an iron atom which binds to oxygen; it’s this molecule that ...

oh... and
Night has ended.

The kilt has come to signify a natural and unmistakable masculinity, but it has a long history of outside intervention and deliberate reinvention. From its origins as the basic garb of the Highlander, Scotsmen and many non-Scotsmen alike have embraced it as uniform, formal and semi-formal wear, and ...