LipTrev
LipTrev t1_iybuppw wrote
Reply to comment by Sexy_Squid89 in TIL the best time to get your vehicle undercoated is actually in the spring/early summer. The salt from wintery roads is not as much of a culprit as damp and humid days are. by HeySquirrelFriends
> I grew up in a small city in the Central Valley of California.
People specifically buy cars from the Central Valley due to them being usually rust free even when they are 20-30 years old. With no undercoating needed other than the usually soundproofing coating.
The coastal regions get salt air.
LipTrev t1_iybuj8e wrote
Reply to TIL the best time to get your vehicle undercoated is actually in the spring/early summer. The salt from wintery roads is not as much of a culprit as damp and humid days are. by HeySquirrelFriends
This is just plain false.
Places with lots of rain, lots of humidity, and no snow, that are far from salt air do not rust anything like cars that drive on salted roads, or live in a salt air environment.
And those two (salted roads versus salt air) have different rust patterns from each other.
The linked article is a Canadian website. If they lived in the American South they'd know they were lying.
LipTrev t1_iybs00b wrote
Reply to TIL "Hey Jude" evolved from the song "Hey Jules" which Paul McCartney wrote for John Lennon's son, Julian, to comfort him while Lennon and his wife were getting separated, He recorded first part of the song on his way to Cynthia and Julian in his Car with a recorder installed in his car's dashboard. by Knight_TheRider
It's much too late for goodbye.
LipTrev t1_iy88llx wrote
Reply to TIL extreme emotional shock can lead to a dangerous condition cause takotsubo cardiomyopathy, also known as "broken heart syndrome". They say 2% of all acute coronary syndrome hospitalizations (where blood flow to the heart is restricted unexpectedly) are caused by this condition. by _foolishly
蛸 蛸、蛸 鰤と、
蛸 蛸、蛸 鰤と
蛸壺！
LipTrev t1_iy32lxe wrote
Reply to comment by BXCellent in TIL that FIFA is a French abbreviation, it would be IFAF in English, and England weren't an original member despite creating the game. FIFA also now has more members than the UN by BXCellent
If it's on your land you get to name it. I'll assume that that part of Switzerland speaks French, but I know that part of France speaks French.
LipTrev t1_ixz2p9a wrote
Reply to comment by brock_lee in TIL about the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) - a US government agency maintaining a reference catalogue of almost any item known; from peanut butter to New Jersey waste water samples. And everything is for sale. by samgarita
> Got some cool stories about things like color TV. The first specs brought to the government would have rendered B/W TVs useless, and they said "go back and make black and white, and color TVs work on the same frequencies, it can be done.
B&W TVs being able to use the color signal, and later mono TVs being able to use the stereo signal was always such a cool bit of engineering.
I love that the audio method especially: an L+R signal and then an L-R signal that the stereo TVs use to create L and R signals through addition for L and inversion and then addition for R.
LipTrev t1_ixz24qo wrote
Reply to comment by Moonlapsed in TIL about the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) - a US government agency maintaining a reference catalogue of almost any item known; from peanut butter to New Jersey waste water samples. And everything is for sale. by samgarita
> Pretty standard instrument stuff
Bud-um Tiss!
LipTrev t1_ixz1yxp wrote
Reply to comment by Alateriel in TIL about the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) - a US government agency maintaining a reference catalogue of almost any item known; from peanut butter to New Jersey waste water samples. And everything is for sale. by samgarita
I am glad when people add info in the comments in a place called Today I Learned, because I am actually here to learn things.
How about you?
LipTrev t1_ixvg85x wrote
Reply to TIL MCI owned 1-800-COLLECT for collect calls. A&T launched 1-800-OPERATOR to compete. People would misspell operator as "operater", which would be routed to 1-800-COLLECT. by lazarus870
Operator, could you help me place this call?
LipTrev t1_ixn6vwb wrote
Outside cat too. Well outside and inside.
LipTrev t1_ix1rxtw wrote
Reply to comment by Cetun in TIL The first house in Cleveland to have electricity got its power from the first automatic electric turbine. The turbine was built in 1888 for the home of Charles F. Brush and provide continuous power for 20 years. by jamescookenotthatone
Additionally in the US, those last bits are part of the legal name, or can be.
LipTrev t1_ix1rawq wrote
Reply to TIL The Glacier Express is the world’s slowest train, taking more than eight hours to travel between Zermatt and St. Moritz in Switzerland by Ok_Copy5217
This is slow for the same reason things like Angel's Flight in LA, and whatever that thing is called in Pittsburgh are slow: it is cogged railway, at least in parts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rack_railway#Abt
The Glacier Express also has lots of sections on regular (narrow gauge) rails, so it is not a simple cogged railway.
The general class is called Steep Grade Railway:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steep_grade_railway
San Francisco uses a cable system to climb it's grades, but it is of the same general class.
LipTrev t1_iwug5n1 wrote
Reply to comment by cleverlane in TIL The first house in Cleveland to have electricity got its power from the first automatic electric turbine. The turbine was built in 1888 for the home of Charles F. Brush and provide continuous power for 20 years. by jamescookenotthatone
If you are named after family members the only differentiation possible some times are the middle initial.
Some country somewhere had this issue when a father and then a son became prime ministers basically one after the other.
LipTrev t1_iwufyfo wrote
Reply to TIL The first house in Cleveland to have electricity got its power from the first automatic electric turbine. The turbine was built in 1888 for the home of Charles F. Brush and provide continuous power for 20 years. by jamescookenotthatone
Cannot edit titles but it is important to note this was a wind turbine with battery backup.
LipTrev t1_iwjsy9v wrote
Reply to comment by YYYdddEW966hgHCE in TIL In the 19th and 20th century, there were dozens of documented cases of people's teeth exploding in their mouths. Primitive metal fillings were suspected to be the cause. by haddock420
Add oxidation to the mix, as well.
LipTrev t1_iwjsvnj wrote
Reply to comment by Inevitable_Phase5048 in TIL There are more flamenco schools in Japan than Spain by Dsarkela
Why not?
LipTrev t1_iwjssrq wrote
There are a metric ton of hula schools in Japan as well.
LipTrev t1_iwexli1 wrote
Reply to TIL that the civilian sailors of the U.S. Merchant Marine had a higher casualty rate during World War II than any branch of the armed forces. by p38-lightning
"civilian" should be in quotes to a greater or lesser degree
They are deployed, they have restrictions on movement, are under secrets acts, etc.
Interesting note: only US citizens can become US Coast Guard certified Captains (of inspected vessels; aka COI vessels) because just as all US flagged airplanes can be pressed into military service, so can all COI vessels and their Captains.
LipTrev t1_ius0t3u wrote
Reply to Today I learned that dandelion roots can be used to make a coffee-like beverage. by ty775pearl
Doesn't this also cause pee-pee problems??
>TIL dandelions were called pissabeds due to their diuretic content.
LipTrev t1_iujfn6o wrote
LipTrev t1_iuje8ok wrote
Reply to TIL: An advertising company wanted to use Johnny Cash's Ring of Fire in a Hemorrhoid commercial by jmoney6
Wall of Voodoo cover of Ring of Fire:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZn6Y1JWksM
This cover set them on their path of synth music for Westerns culminating in Call of the West, a brilliant album, most popularly know for Mexican Radio.
Mexican Radio:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyCEexG9xjw
But the most inspired song on the album is the title track closing the album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2T5W3dMt74
Brilliant, brilliant music.
LipTrev t1_iuj3ica wrote
Reply to comment by Due_Platypus_3913 in TIL the song Tusk by Fleetwood Mac and the USC marching band is the only song that features a marching band to ever make the top ten of the US billboards top 100 songs. by MightGuy420x
The band Guess Who played with Fleetwood Mac?
LipTrev t1_iuj2qrc wrote
Reply to comment by Lawyer__Up in TIL that one of the most popular medieval legends about Saint Nicholas of Myra (the original basis for the legend of Santa Claus) involves him magically resurrecting three children who were murdered by an evil butcher and sold as cured meat. by themightyheptagon
The last time I sausage bad puns I was in the old dad's home.
LipTrev t1_iuj2mn0 wrote
Reply to TIL that one of the most popular medieval legends about Saint Nicholas of Myra (the original basis for the legend of Santa Claus) involves him magically resurrecting three children who were murdered by an evil butcher and sold as cured meat. by themightyheptagon
And if they were brought back to life after you unknowingly ate them.....
Brings to mind Pushing Daisies with a young Lee Pace:
LipTrev t1_iybuwo4 wrote
Reply to comment by Killianti in TIL the best time to get your vehicle undercoated is actually in the spring/early summer. The salt from wintery roads is not as much of a culprit as damp and humid days are. by HeySquirrelFriends
Only true in places without road salt or salt air.