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Why do football players wear rubber bands around their biceps?
These items are called bicep bands. They are made of a variety of materials: some are nylon, some are cotton, some are synthetic blends, etc.
Bicep bands are used to catch and absorb sweat on the arms. They prevent the sweat on the shoulders and upper arms from sliding down to the forearm and hands. It's no different than how a head band prevents sweat from dripping down the forehead and getting into the eyes. There is some debate about how well they work, but that's what they are designed for.
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The Ultimate, Recco Wise:
Driven by Lewis Hamilton – Ferrari LaFerrari, Estimated At $1.35 Million
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Estimated -- I guess that depends if you go for the cigarette lighter option.@Catseye3 said in Mildly interesting:
The Ultimate, Recco Wise:
Driven by Lewis Hamilton – Ferrari LaFerrari, Estimated At $1.35 Million
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Estimated -- I guess that depends if you go for the cigarette lighter option.I rented an Infiniti Q50 last week. It actually had an ashtray and a cigarette lighter. Haven't seen those in years. Surprising for a rental car.
I was thoroughly unimpressed. My Murano, a year older, has much better features and bells and whistles.
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@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:
Yeah, but go back a few million years ago and those bumps on the east would have made the current Rockies look like crap...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adriano_Celentano
Link to video Link to videoHe has released 40 albums, consisting of 29 studio albums, three live albums, and eight compilations. His most popular songs are "La coppia piu' bella del mondo", which sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc;[5] "Azzurro" (1968), written by Paolo Conte; "Svalutation" (1976), and "Prisencolinensinainciusol" (1972), which was written to mimic the way English sounds to non-English speakers despite being almost entirely nonsense.
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@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:
It is changing
our Sun converts 600 million tons of hydrogen into 596 million tons of helium every second.
When the temperature in the core reaches about 100 million degrees, the helium will begin to fuse into carbon by a reaction known as the triple-alpha process, because it converts three helium nuclei into one carbon atom. This generates a great deal of heat.
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From a few years ago, but still interesting:
Humans are good at a lot of things, but putting time in perspective is not one of them. It’s not our fault—the spans of time in human history, and even more so in natural history, are so vast compared to the span of our life and recent history that it’s almost impossible to get a handle on it. If the Earth formed at midnight and the present moment is the next midnight, 24 hours later, modern humans have been around since 11:59:59pm—1 second. And if human history itself spans 24 hours from one midnight to the next, 14 minutes represents the time since Christ.
To try to grasp some perspective, I mapped out the history of time as a series of growing timelines—each timeline contains all the previous timelines (colors will help you see which timelines are which). All timeline lengths are exactly accurate to the amount of time they’re expressing.
Interesting graphs, like this one:
And this one:
And this one:
Cleopatra lived closer to the founding of Pizza Hut than to the building of the great pyramids.
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Love stuff like this. Love me perspective stuff.
My favorite factoid of the Cleo/Pizza Hut (!) sort pertains to American history. When WWI began, Thomas Jefferson had been dead for 100 years, or less than.
Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka
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@George-K said in Mildly interesting:
Here you go, @Catseye3. Something to brighten your morning:
Thanks for giving me a reason to have a breakfast beer!
The Brad
