Post Some Educational Trivia!

My brain can remember odd facts but I forget people's names or the names of things, even when I've known them for years and said it 25 minutes before.
It's not an uncommon problem for people with AD/HD.
So here are a few:
Australia's diameter from east to west is wider than the Moon's.
Honey never goes bad. If it has turned into a hard lump all you have to do is warm it up.
Lemon's float on water but limes sink.
Also lemons and limes are the result of human genetic engineering. It just took much longer than if it was done in a lab.
Your brain constantly goes through a process called autophagy. (I had to look the name for it up cause as stated I forget names). I just remember it as your brain is always eating itself.

 

My brain is starving.



I wonder if autophagy has ties to vasculitus?

 

The bar that is on the lower end of of a trailer (53 foot trailer)
it is known as a Mansfield bar. It was mandated to be on all trailers in 1998, some 31 years after a fatal accident. why 31 years is beyond me.

 

Politic$ & the lobbying power of the tran$portation / trucking indu$try.

I would be curious to know the MPH resistance rating; it could be some type of backing up safety 'feeler'.

 

but it should not have taken 31 years for it to be mandated, i understand politics and lobbying and etc..... but thats a long time

after a little research they are made to absorb a the impact of a vehicle going 35 mph head on, not sure what head on means since they are at the rear of the trailer

 

That is what I figured, a safety barrier (a rear bumper, so to say) to stop relatively low speed rear-endings from becoming tragedies.

Yes, 31 years a long time, even in political years.

 

The handle on a hatchet, & axe, also the handle of a weapon, is called the haft.

One definition included knives; I've never heard the handle on any style of knife referred to as the haft.

 

No haft but there is a heel.

 

I've heard the parts that make up the handle referred to as panels, usually on fixed blade knives, and scales, usually on folders=folding knives.

 

A tree branch that has broken off & is hung up in attached tree branches is called a widow maker, because it could fall and injure or kill someone.

 

Especially if you are riding a snowmachine.
A big branch or tree that has fallen into a river is called a sweeper by rafters because it can sweep you right out of the raft.

 

Today I learned…

 

There must be some regional variation with some of these terms.
Around here loggers refer to a tree they have cut, but that hangs up in the canopy, as a widow maker. They're very dangerous.
We also use the term in medicine: A lesion in the main artery that supplies the heart is called a widow maker, because if that artery suddenly blocks off completely you are likely to leave a widow behind.

And the obstructions in the flow of a river are referred to as strainers here.

 

The national animal of Scotland is a Unicorn

 

I think "widow maker" is a broad term in the logging industry, I've also seen it used to refer to a felling gone wrong where the tree gets hung up. I haven't seen it used to describe a potential root ball disaster (and I'm kicking myself for not remembering what that's called).

 

Baby rats are called
pups.

 

I haven't heard one for the root ball.

 

I looked it up, but my search engine barely found anything for root ball danger. Maybe my memory is fading, or what I read/heard was a name someone made up that no one actually used.

BTW/FTR the root ball danger is
When the entire tree falls it will pull the roots out of the ground, but many or most of the roots aren't severed. When the tree is cut into sections for removal the work usually starts at the top of the tree, meaning as weight is removed from the tree the pull of the roots increases. There have been cases where a tree will stand back up, & trap people who were in the hole in the ground left by the root ball.


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