What did you learn today?

[stui magpie]

Drop Bears were real

[HAL]

Just surf somewhere else.

[stui magpie]

It's a shame to waste a perfectly good thread.

Through a rather circuitous route starting with Twitter, I learned there is a network of Tunnels under Las Vegas where many of the cities homeless live.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/inside-the-tunnels-las-vegass-homeless-population-calls-home

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/sep/14/las-vegas-homeless-tunnel-dwellers-gambling-addiction

[think positive]

Oh wow

Gunna book a couple of days in Vegas tomorrow, I think I'll stay above ground!

[5150]

I learned today that if I buy a bottle of White Crow tomato sauce, that I only ever own the sauce inside....

At the bottom of the bottle it is embossed with "this bottle always remains the property of Cerebos (Aust) Ltd"

[stui magpie]

[stui magpie]

So apparently, New Zealand is a continent.

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/02/16/travel/zealandia-new-continent-discovered/index.html?sr=twcnni021717zealandia-new-continent-discovered0958AMVODtopPhoto&linkId=34600965

[swoop42]

That I wished I lived in Sydney to experience the awesome electrical storms they experience every year.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-17/sydney-storm-cuts-power-to-40,000-homes/8280506

My fantasy home would be a place that overlooked an ocean or bay in an area prone to electrical storms.

[Skids]

That it's getting worse..... wake up Australia!!

Muslim public schoolboys ‘excused’ from shaking hands with women

The instruction is understood to derive from an Islamic hadith — a report describing the words, action­s, or habits of the Islamic prophet Mohammed — stating that “it is better to be stabbed in the head with an iron needle than to touch the hand of a woman who is not permissible to you”.

The NSW Education Department has confirmed the school had an “agreed protocol” regarding handshaking and Muslim ­students.



http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/muslim-public-schoolboys-excused-from-shaking-hands-with-women/news-story/c4adb75696227c673b6760e859323895

[stui magpie]

Most of your favourite nuts, aren't nuts.

Peanuts are legumes and cashews, Pistachios, Walnuts, almonds and Brazil nuts are all actually seeds.

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/nuts-that-arent-actually-nuts-2016-2#/#makes-you-think-twice-about-that-container-of-mixed-nuts-6

[think positive]

So does that mean those nut allergies are fake, or a whole lot of folks are allergic to a whole lot of stuff!

[ronrat]

[stui magpie]

[stui magpie]

I like this thread, gonna keep bumping it.

Courtesy of Facebook, I learned a little maths trick with percentages.

Every one who's done maths knows that X x Y = Y x X right? 2x3 is the same as 3x2.

Apparently, the same works for percentages.

X% x Y = Y% x X

So, if you're trying to work out 18% of 50 in your head, just do 50% of 18 instead. Answer is the same.

Pick an example yourself.

25% x 80 = 20
80% x 25 = 20.

https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/this-viral-math-trick-has-everyone-asking-why-the-hell-werent-we-taught-this-in-school/?fbclid=IwAR1NKDQrT2XDOb32eqiUt9HEOr0JOaU8gotV_Q6qajg9dIp57as3Gv4KclM

Another example of quick maths I picked up in high school from a mate.

If you want to add the numbers from 1 to anything, there's a simple way to do it without using Excel.

To sum the numbers 1 to X, do this.

((1 +X)/2) x X

eg, to sum the numbers from 1 to 37.

1+37 = 38
38/2 = 19
19 x 37 = 703.


Bingo.

[KenH]

Thanks Stui, I didn't know this, so simple love it!