Mildly interesting

[jon-nyc]

[Catseye3]

@jon-nyc Extremely interesting. Thanks for posting.

[taiwan_girl]

@George-K said in Mildly interesting:

Searching around, some are saying BS. I dunno...

Maybe possible. I used to have a Ecosphere, which was a self contained eco system in a completely sealed glass ball. Water, plants and miniature shrimp. Had it for a few years, and then one time I was moving it from a cold apt. (due to A/C) and brought into the hot outdoors and it cracked!

EDIT: I was going to link to their website, but it seems that the company went out of business.

[George K]

[George K]

[Catseye3]

So what's with Portugal?

[Doctor Phibes]

@George-K interesting. I wonder how many of these are for people who marry more than once. Portugal's rate is 94%!

[Doctor Phibes]

@Catseye3 said in Mildly interesting:

So what's with Portugal?

Apparently, it's partly caused by the very low numbers of marriages. The actual number of divorces aren't that high

https://www.quora.com/Why-are-divorce-rates-so-high-in-Spain-and-Portugal-compared-to-Italy-and-Greece

[George K]

@Catseye3 in the US, almost half of all marriages end in divorce.

The other half end in death.

[Mik]

So marriage is to be avoided. It never ends well. Now you tell me.

[George K]

[George K]

1921

Left to right:

Thomas Edison
Henry Ford
Warren Harding
Harvey Firestone.

[jon-nyc]

@George-K that’s interesting. I’d love to be a fly on the wall for that conversation.

[Copper]

The Sun’s energy output in a second is almost exactly 1,000,000 times greater than all of Earth’s energy consumption in the year 2013.

Yes that is comparing a second to a year.

Times 1,000,000

The Sun is capable of heating up this globe.

[George K]

Watching the coronation made me wonder why this hat is shaped the way it is. Always struck me as odd:

The slouch hat:

Today it is worn by military personnel from a number of countries, although it is primarily associated with Australia, where it is considered to be a national symbol. The distinctive Australian slouch hat, sometimes called an "Australian bush hat" or "digger hat", has one side of the brim turned up or pinned to the side of the hat with a Rising Sun Badge in order to allow a rifle to be slung over the shoulder.

Like so many traditions, it is rooted in practicality.

[Aqua Letifer]

@George-K said in Mildly interesting:

Watching the coronation made me wonder why this hat is shaped the way it is. Always struck me as odd:

The slouch hat:

Today it is worn by military personnel from a number of countries, although it is primarily associated with Australia, where it is considered to be a national symbol. The distinctive Australian slouch hat, sometimes called an "Australian bush hat" or "digger hat", has one side of the brim turned up or pinned to the side of the hat with a Rising Sun Badge in order to allow a rifle to be slung over the shoulder.

Like so many traditions, it is rooted in practicality.

The Foreign Legion's got some great ones if you're into that kinda thing.

[jon-nyc]

[Mik]

@jon-nyc Now you know what I want to see next in that series, Jon.

[89th]

This is the first time I've opened this thread.

I believe that is mildly interesting considering I didn't realize how many cool things are in here. I'll have to start from the beginning and catch up.

[jon-nyc]

@89th said in Mildly interesting:

This is the first time I've opened this thread.

You made the third post in this thread, some 2.5hrs after I started it.