TODAY I LEARNED (TIL) - thread

[adityak469]

I miss the night sky. I long for a night when I could keep staring at the stars until the sky becomes milky white.

sounds like the start of a good poem to me

 

[Cyberghost]

it's a matter of billionth's of a second. A clock on the wall is faster than the same clock on the floor.
Scientists prove time really does pass quicker at a higher altitude | Daily Mail Online
combine that with the gravitation being marginally lower in South India compared to the rest of the world, and it follows that time is faster in South India

Then I will age faster than others

By the way today I learned American Express provide debit cards in Maldives.

 

[adityak469]

Then I will age faster than others

yeah you'll age a second faster

 

[Flash]

TIL about "RAS Syndrome".

By just looking at the examples, you will find it what it means..

• ATM machine (automated teller machine machine)
• LCD display (liquid crystal display display)
• PIN number (personal identification number number)
• PDF format (portable document format format)
• DC Comics (Detective Comics Comics)

 

[Cyberghost]

*pad1.whstatic.com/images/thumb/b/b5/Tell-if-a-Diamond-is-Real-Step-11.jpg/670px-Tell-if-a-Diamond-is-Real-Step-11.jpg

Diamonds have a radiolucent molecular structure, which means that they don't appear in x-ray images. Glass, cubic zirconium and crystals all have slightly radiopaque qualities that make them show up clearly on an x-ray.
If you want to get your diamond x-ray tested, you will either need to submit it to a professional diamond testing lab, or make a deal with your local x-ray imaging center.

Source : wikihow

 

[Flash]

^ Then how the Customs find the smuggled diamonds when people are travelling across? Any idea?

 

[Anorion]

CT/ Ultrasound maybe?

ps diamond ring xray image search is both hilarious and horrifying

 

[anirbandd]

CT/ Ultrasound maybe?

ps diamond ring xray image search is both hilarious and horrifying

thanks for creeping up my day

 

[Chaitanya]

TIL lenticular clouds exist & are not merely photoshopped images..

They are formed due to eddies in the troposphere, they are formed in direction perpendicular to that of wind. They have characterstic lens shape causing them to be mistaken for UFO's . Also they are turbulent so pilots avoid them.

*www.crystalinks.com/lenticularlogo.jpg
APOD: 2012 November 4 - Lenticular Clouds Over Washington
Lenticular Clouds - Crystalinks
Lenticular cloud - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[harshilsharma63]

TIL lenticular clouds exist & are not merely photoshopped images..

They are formed due to eddies in the troposphere, they are formed in direction perpendicular to that of wind. They have characterstic lens shape causing them to be mistaken for UFO's . Also they are turbulent so pilots avoid them.

*www.crystalinks.com/lenticularlogo.jpg
APOD: 2012 November 4 - Lenticular Clouds Over Washington
Lenticular Clouds - Crystalinks
Lenticular cloud - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Man, thats so beautiful, expecially that Washington DC image,

 

[anirbandd]

just like hurricanes. but in the sky, with the clouds.

 

[TheHumanBot]

#TIL *www.loser.com redirects you to Kanye West's Wikipedia page.

 

[Flash]

^ kanye lost.

 

[amjath]

#TIL *www.loser.com redirects you to Kanye West's Wikipedia page.

 

[Vyom]

TIL about a girl that became an internet sensation posting this marriage profile, to initially piss off the matrimony websites and to make a point, that she's not ready for marriage.

 

[amjath]

^ we are making big hype and hits for her site.

Til that yu yureka is from the new brand yureka which is backed by micromax

 

[Flash]

TIL that the U.S. hasn't had a President with facial hair in over 100 years.

 

[Chaitanya]

TIL that liquid helium is a superfluid & has awesome properties..



Superfluid helium-4 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Anorion]

TIL fashion designers allowed humans to get out of Africa and that humans spent a lot of time without hair and without clothes as well.

"It's interesting to think humans were able to survive in Africa for hundreds of thousands of years without clothing and without body hair, and that it wasn't until they had clothing that modern humans were then moving out of Africa into other parts of the world," Reed said.

Lice DNA study shows humans first wore clothes 170,000 years ago -- ScienceDaily

 

[Flash]

^ Fashion designers?