useless facts

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Humans have jumped farther than horses in the Olympics.

Humans have jumped higher than a two story house.


Primarily because houses can't jump

[Jimbuna]

That one is older than both our ages combined

[Platapus]

The Oscar statue award is male


But did you know what the Emmy statue is female?

[Jimbuna]

Pigeon poop is the property of the British Crown.

[Ostfriese]

Rare earth metals aren't exactly rare. The most abundant of them, cerium, is more common in Earth's crust than copper and lead. All of them (with the exception of Promethium, which does not form stable isotopes) are more common than silver, mercury, gold, cadmium and even iodine.


They are, however, not found in high concentrations, and chemically they react very similar to each other, because they mostly differ in the number of electrons in the f-orbital, unlike the main group and transition group elements, which differ in the number of electrons in the s-, p- and d-orbitals (if you only know the simpler Bohr model of the electon shell: s- and p-orbital form the outer shell with the electrons most important for bonding, while the d-orbital is beneath the outer layer and the f-orbital even further beneath).



Extracting rare earth metals requires processing a much higher amount of ore, and separating them from each other requires very complex processes, which is why they are used nowhere near as much. While about 20 million tons of copper and about 5 million tons of lead are produced annually, only about 25,000 tons of cerium are produced.

[Aktungbby]

/\...easily the most Bohring post I've ever read at

[Ostfriese]

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

/\...easily the most Bohring post I've ever read at

Chemistry is never boring, and Niels Bohr doesn‘t agree with you. Neither will Markus if he notices that you are dragging a fellow Dane‘s name into the mud

[Jimbuna]

Onions were found in the eyes of an Egyptian mummy.

Pharaoh Ramses IV of ancient Egypt had his eyes replaced with small onions when he was mummified. The rings and layers of onions were worshipped because people thought they represented eternal life. This aligns with the reason for mummification: to allow the pharaoh to live forever.

[Jimbuna]

Abraham Lincoln was a bartender.

[Sean C]

Abraham Lincoln also preferred water over alcohol and would sometimes pretend to drink wine at social gatherings.

[Jimbuna]

Beethoven never knew how to multiply or divide.

The renowned pianist went to a Latin school called Tirocinium, where he was taught some math but never learned multiplication or division—only addition. Once, when he needed to multiply 62 by 50, he wrote 62 down a line 50 times and added it all up.

[Ostfriese]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Beethoven never knew how to multiply or divide.

The renowned pianist went to a Latin school called Tirocinium, where he was taught some math but never learned multiplication or division—only addition. Once, when he needed to multiply 62 by 50, he wrote 62 down a line 50 times and added it all up.

Which actually makes him more proficient in maths than at least three quarters of today's population.

[Jimbuna]

Certainly does where the UK is concerned

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Beethoven never knew how to multiply or divide.

The renowned pianist went to a Latin school called Tirocinium, where he was taught some math but never learned multiplication or division—only addition. Once, when he needed to multiply 62 by 50, he wrote 62 down a line 50 times and added it all up.

That's the only right way to do math

[Jimbuna]

One of the greats