I didn't know that!

The things you discover after decades of life. Most recently, I was amazed to read that mercury corrodes aluminum. What amazes you that you’d never heard it before?

Just now learning about it? Man you have missed out.

Also check out Potassium chlorate and Gummy worms.(and stand back, oh and wear shades) You can catch up on the fun destructive and entertaining world of chemistry.

Sorry, I just have to do this…

Man has visted the deepest part of the worlds oceans, Challenger Deep in the Mariana’s Trench, just once. In 1960. For 20 minutes.

Okay Professor Osip - talk to me like I’m an idiot. What does it do? Whatever it is, it sounds like fun!

A quick google brings up this interesting Youtube video.

First: What a cool sound!

Second: I appreciate the anthropomorphic ghoulishness of doing this to a Gummi Bear.

Gummi Bears!
Bouncing here and there and everywhere…

Not only that, mercury is one of the few metals which will destroy gold.

Until recently, it had never occurred to me that “throng” could be a verb. Many times have I read about throngs doing this or that, but never did I know that you could also throng.

Reindeer enjoy bananas.

And bananas is a fun word.

bananaannanananananaanana.

I learned recently that in Elizabethan times, there were rules about what sorts of clothes you could wear, depending on your social status. This class could not wear silk; this class could wear lots of silk, not no velvet; this class could wear some velvet, but not of the color of the Order of the Garter, and so on and so forth. There were also rules about how many courses you could have at your meals. Rules upon rules beyond counting.

I don’t understand how a pre-industriial society could have even started to enforce all that shit, but apparently they tried.

Oh sure, sumptuary laws. They started trying that in the Middle Ages. It never quite worked, really, but they sure put effort into it.

Love the Gummi Bear video! Wow!

Plural for ox: oxen

Plural for box: not boxen

I only very recently, in the last 45 seconds or so, learned that mercury corrodes aluminum.

I’ve just learned that my life won’t be complete until I go buy a Bunsen burner, a test tube, some potassium chlorate, and a bag of gummi bears.

I did not know until about a year or so ago that in the song Winter Wonderland that Parson Brown was not the name of a person but reference to a priest.

“Parson Brown” is the term used to talk about a typical angelican priest of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

I thought that was just the name of a person they ran into while walking in the winter wonderland.

I am 39 years old :o

Of course it is! boxen

From a short bio of Jonathan Swift that the word “mob” is a clip of the Latin mobile vulgus, “The easily-moved common people.”

That after he retired from silent comedy, Harold Lloyd made use of his fortune and free time to indulge his interest in nudie photography. Betty Page was an amature model whom he encouraged to go on to her particular destiny.

I used to manage a temperature metrology lab. So here are a couple for ya.

99.99% of people believe water freezes at exactly 32° F (0 °C). This is not true. The freezing point temperature of water is no longer a defining point on the temperature scale.

The latest measurements would suggest pure water freezes at around 0.000089 °C. This is so close to 0 °C that, for virtually all applications, the freezing point temperature of pure water may be assumed to be 0 °C. But it is not exactly 0 °C. Very few people know this.

FYI, there are only two defined temperatures: absolute zero (0 K) and the triple point of VSMOW water (0.01 °C). All other temperatures - including freezing points of pure substances - are simply known to a greater or lesser degree of accuracy. All have uncertainty. Except for absolute zero and the triple point of VSMOW water; as mentioned, they are defined temperatures, and hence have no uncertainty. (Making and using a practical water triple point cell, however, does have uncertainty. But I won’t get into that.)

Holy crap. You win. I speak for the nerdy.