You Learn Something New Every Day!

[quodec]

Wow, here's a good one!

The grandson of the 10th POTUS (President of the United States) is still ALIVE!

1 - John Tyler (1790-1862) was the 10th president of the US from 1841-1845. His son Lyon Gardiner Tyler was born in 1853, when John was 63!
2 - John's son, Lyon Gardiner Tyler (1853-1935), an historian, fathered a son, Harrison Ruffin Tyler, born in 1928, when Lyon was 75!
3 - Harrison Ruffin Tyler, (1928 and still alive), a retired chemical engineer, is therefore the grandson of the 10th US President!

John Tyler

[isha]

Today I learned about these wind up clockwork fans, Paillard fans made 1902-1910. They would be perfect for times of hot weather and expensive energy. I don't know if it is true they can go for 30 - 60 minutes on one full winding, but maybe (?). I love them.

[6456739]

The EU's largest national park is in South America. French Guiana more specifically.

[765489]

Today I learned that at any given moment 43.5 percent of our river creatures worldwide are high on over the counter prescription drugs.

https://scitechdaily.com/shocking-new-s ... ution/amp/

[Del.Monte]

Today I learned that at any given moment 43.5 percent of our river creatures worldwide are high on over the counter prescription drugs.

https://scitechdaily.com/shocking-new-s ... ution/amp/

Which is why I only drink bottled water these days - I tell myself that it's tested and quite safe. Given that half the population appear to be high on legal/illegal drugs I have no wish to participate by drinking whatever passes through them into the Slaney.

[knownunknown]

I was one who heard the message spread by the likes of Carl Sagan(with the best of intentions), but a nuclear winter is probably not something achievable even with thousands of times more bombs than were ever created all being detonated at once.

The early calculations were more than likely wrong. It’s a myth.

[Del.Monte]

I'd rather not find out.

[95438756]

In other market regions, BMW car manufacturer is to introduce subscription service for heated car seats and steering wheel

Cue 12 months time, Radio 1 will be broadcasting 1 minute long ads for BMW, "Drive your kids to school in your BMW on a frosty morning with pre heated car seats" intoned by the same woman now who does the Hyundai ads.

[765489]

If you have a long piece of music on youtube you want to listen to, but do not have ad blockers in your web browser to prevent ads interrupting your musical enjoyment, just post the link onto Gubu in the what are you listening to now thread and play it from the your post. Another great reason to like Gubu - free youtube ad blocking services included to all Gubu members.

[nlgbbbblth]

Wow, here's a good one!

The grandson of the 10th POTUS (President of the United States) is still ALIVE!

1 - John Tyler (1790-1862) was the 10th president of the US from 1841-1845. His son Lyon Gardiner Tyler was born in 1853, when John was 63!
2 - John's son, Lyon Gardiner Tyler (1853-1935), an historian, fathered a son, Harrison Ruffin Tyler, born in 1928, when Lyon was 75!
3 - Harrison Ruffin Tyler, (1928 and still alive), a retired chemical engineer, is therefore the grandson of the 10th US President!

John Tyler

There were two grandsons alive until a couple of years ago.

[quodec]

There were two grandsons alive until a couple of years ago.

The older grandson, Lyon Gardiner Tyler Jnr, died in Sept 2020, aged 95.

[Hugh_Bigazz]

If you have a long piece of music on youtube you want to listen to, but do not have ad blockers in your web browser to prevent ads interrupting your musical enjoyment, just post the link onto Gubu in the what are you listening to now thread and play it from the your post. Another great reason to like Gubu - free youtube ad blocking services included to all Gubu members.

I subscribe to Youtube family in Argentina and get a 6 Google users family account for €1.30 per month, so no ads on Youtube on any of our devices and Youtube Music replaces Spotify.

Sign up to a free Tunnel Bear account, set yourself to Argentina and sign up with a Revolut as payment so you can pay in Argentine Peso. Once signed up you no longer need the VPN, the payment will go out monthly

[765489]

This evening I learned that I have an new TV station called Virgin Media 4. I now have 13 TV stations I can now view with the rabbit ears aerial.

All these stations and nothing worth watching. Will do the usual and either hit youtube or switch on the DVD player.

[nlgbbbblth]

I was in Paris c 15 years ago. Met a friend for coffee. He is fluent in French and had been living there since the early 90s. When I arrived, he was in the company of an older man - aged around 50 or so. He knew him from his line of work (my friend was a history tutor in one of the universities, the other guy was a medieval history specialist). Yer man left shortly after I arrived.

Just found out this guy has a unique place in history. He was the last man to be condemned to death in France back in October 1980. He along with six others were sitting on death row, awaiting the guillotine before a change of government the following year (Mitterand abolished capital punishment) ensured that they got life sentences instead. Think the guy did 20 years before getting out around 2000 and took up the history in prison.

[765489]

Bears are skillful fence climbers.

[765489]

I learnt today that years ago in coal mines over in the UK, there was lad that would go down the coal mine an hour before the coal mining operation would take place everyday carrying out a particularly hazardous but essential job ->

"The practice of firing the gas before the miners entered the pit was first put into force at Mostyn Colliery, North Wales, about the year 1650. The mode of operation was for a man who made it his special business to descend the shaft some time before the hour of commencing work. This man, clad in wet sackcloth, crawled upon his belly into the workings, and by raising lighted candles on the end of a long stick like a fishing pole up to the roof he would light the gas and then lie close on the floor until the flame of the explosion had passed over him. Hence the origin of the term "fireman.""

Makes my rantings about work sometimes seem very trivial in comparison

[893456]

I learnt today that years ago in coal mines over in the UK, there was lad that would go down the coal mine an hour before the coal mining operation would take place everyday carrying out a particularly hazardous but essential job ->

"The practice of firing the gas before the miners entered the pit was first put into force at Mostyn Colliery, North Wales, about the year 1650. The mode of operation was for a man who made it his special business to descend the shaft some time before the hour of commencing work. This man, clad in wet sackcloth, crawled upon his belly into the workings, and by raising lighted candles on the end of a long stick like a fishing pole up to the roof he would light the gas and then lie close on the floor until the flame of the explosion had passed over him. Hence the origin of the term "fireman.""

Makes my rantings about work sometimes seem very trivial in comparison

My Grandfather first worked the mines at 12 yrs old,his title was bird watchmen,he carried a bird in a cage into the mines before the miners worked.By the bird's behaviour he could tell if gasses had built up in the shaft or not and if it was safe to mine.To flush the shaft they had these portable bellows to clear a shaft if the bird died.

[Mirabeau]

Jack Russell Terriers can reach speeds of up to 30mph.

[isha]

The oldest rocks in the world are in Hudson Bay, Canada. The bedrock there is about 4 billion years old. Most rock you see is several hundred million years old. Rocks go through repeating rock cycles, where they form, weather, reform, sink, rise, move, etc from and back to the lithosphere. Yes, I've been reading a bit of geology this week. It's made me realise maybe I should have read a lot of geology a long time ago. It's mad stuff. As fascinating as space. Meteorite on earth has been dated to 7 billion years old. Earth is about 4.6 billion years old. Given that humans have been in Ireland for about 30000 years max (given latest evidence re butchered reindeer bone found in Cork) it puts the age of the planet in perspective.

[isha]

If anyone wants to look into the study re the massively old meteorite particles, you can read this...

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 153306.htm

Basically pre solar grains particles contained in the Murchison meteor which fell to earth in Australia in 1969. Some of this information is mind blowing, stardust that existed since a star formation baby boom about 7 billion years ago

[nlgbbbblth]

The ITV colour strike lasted 3 months (November 1970 to February 1971) but the effects of it weren't really felt until the mid 2000s onwards.

[Mirabeau]

The Philippines consists of 7,641 islands.

[95438756]

There is a First Class bus service in Japan called 'Precious' Class.
The only catch is that the seat cannot be fully reclined because of Japanese transport law.

[Bishop_Brennan]

This I had never heard of til today ...



Over 300,000 animals in total, aside from those mentioned here.
And to think it was himself meeting the wrong end of a bullet that caused so much trouble. What an absolute psychopath he was.


https://www.historyanswers.co.uk/kings- ... orld-tour/

Jesus!
What a c*nt!

[isha]

Me "learning" this is in the loosest possible sense of the word, but still, cool to contemplate. Protons, quarks, etc

https://www.quantamagazine.org/inside-t ... -20221019/