Can you teach me something new?

[Anonymous]

If I don't know and it's actually new to me you get a medal for feeding my brain lol 🏅

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You all win medals 🏅

[rachel776]

i have a very interesting one about the guy who wrote Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in the 1960s, but i can't remember all the details, i'll have to ask my granddad

but for now i will say one i use a lot on civilians is, i will ask people how many pieces of wood they think a violin is made of. kids especially will say 1 and i say no and they will say 2; other people will say 3, maybe 5 or 6, and after that they throw out all sorts of numbers. on a professional violin it's actually over 100. i will pull a piece of wood off my violin they never would have thought was there (it's meant to come off so i'm not wrecking anything, even on a Strad.)

[Asker]

So what do the wood parts do? Lol

[rachel776]

a violin only weighs a pound, but has to withstand around 100 lbs. of pressure from the neck and the strings and playing, and fast playing can increase that pressure by many multiples. also that deep wood sound you hear from a violin, and more so a violin section, comes from the shape and precise assembly of the pieces of wood throughout the instrument. they also respond to vibrations called harmonics, which is where you get that uniquely violin-ish sound, and also creates the fifths you are almost imagining you are hearing, but are really there due to the physics of sound, which composers use in creating their music. how this blends with a symphony orchestra especially is a magical thing, and when it's done right, an audience will feel it in their bones. you can really notice this in something like the second movement of Mahler's 4th Symphony; the whole audience holds their breath for the longest time

[Asker]

Thats actually pretty wild, so they are like support beams, like a building

[queenofcardio]

Did you know that 13 states share a border with Canada.

Alaska, Idaho, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, New Hampshire, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Vermont, and Washington.

I've traveled through some of these states.

[Telekinetic-Potato]

When you're playing a game of pool and you go to rack the balls in the triangle thing. Most people never think twice about placing the first ball right on top of the dot on the table.

But if you place the rack just a few millimeters in front of the dot, you get a wide spread and a higher chance of running the table.

If you go right behind the dot, the balls will go more clustered and tend to make for a more challenging game.

[WindAtMyBack]

At mid US latitudes, an average time zone is about 1000 miles wide.

So you can estimate how much earlier or later the sun will set when you travel east or west. Travel 500 miles east or west, and the sun sets a half hour earlier or later. Travel 100 miles and it's 6 minutes earlier or later.

It's not exact, but 1000 miles is easy to remember.

[AI Opinion]

Let me teach you a tiny brain trick: “implementation intentions.”

It’s a research-backed way to make yourself actually do what you *say* you’ll do.

Instead of:
- “I’ll study more”

You say:
- “If it’s 7:30 pm, then I sit at my desk and open my math notebook.”

Formula: If X happens, then I will do Y.

Your brain starts treating the cue (time/place) like an automatic trigger.
Used well, it can boost follow-through on habits, studying, workouts, even job tasks.

[Master_Debator]

You can play bass guitar with your penis. Just put the base of it on a empty box and pull on the end of it. Streatch it for higher notes and strum the bass notes of your favorite song.

[Apulu_backagain]

Did you know oxygen is basically a poison which just takes 70-80 years to kill you?

[4ngelic]

the great gombe war

https://www.youtube.com/embed/ChO586cR3hQ

[Osborne775]

Go to your Calculator Put in your Shoe size than put 00

Than take away the year you were born in

Than plus the year your in now and equal it

The last 2 numbers should be either the age you are now or turning

[MemeSupreme]

this medal sucks

there's likes scratches on it

[DishLady]

Perhaps, if I know everything you know and everything you don't know.

[Shiprex]

The speed of light is a constant and whenever we move with speed the ageing process slows down infinitesimally.

[Twodogs0525]

Interesting stuff... Mine is a takeoff of another opiner's post. The very pills people take to keep them alive, are slowly killing them.

[DryGermanGuy]

"I cannot teach him. The boy has no patience."

- Yoda, Star Wars Ep. 5

[Vevv123]

Pigeons usually lay two eggs at a time

[Asker]

I didn't know that, it's always 2? 😂

[Vevv123]

Usually it is 😁 I know because there’s a pigeon at my front step door step. It made a nest on top of the fire hydrant box and it layed one egg and my dad told me that was weird because usually they lay two eggs. The egg was so small 🥹 and we gave it water and my sister put pieces of melons next to the nest 😆

[Asker]

How many can it make lol

[Vevv123]

They usually make 2 at a time and then they can make more like in a month. My dad said we might have scared her away when we put pieces of melons. Her egg disappeared too 😩

[Asker]

Wait so she took the eggs with her? 😂

[Vevv123]

I doubt she can carry her eggs 😅 i think another bird ate them possibly 🥺

[Asker]

Oh so she abandoned the eggs? 🤔

[Vevv123]

No, I’ve seen her in her nest, but I haven’t seen the egg or baby bird anywhere. I was looking forward to seeing a baby bird 🥺

[Asker]

Damn so it seems they did get eaten 🫠

[Vevv123]

Yes and now who knows if the pigeon is going to want to lay more eggs 😩 my dad said we probably scared it when we put pieces of melon next to the nest. I haven’t seen it anymore.

[Asker]

Yea they just saw some random yellow or orange thing there like wtf lol

Foreal tho I don't think it got scared but it realized that it's nesting spot has been found and probably didn't like that 😂

[Vevv123]

That makes sense 😂 it probably realized its little secret spot wasn’t so secret anymore. Hopefully it comes back though. From what I’ve read pigeons usually return to the same nesting spot.. unless it really thinks we’re dangerous 😩🥺

[midnightmoon05]

Ni Hao.

Ni Jaio Shen Men Ming Zi?

[midnightmoon05]

Oh no!!!
Update - my some came home from school holding a trophy… I was so excited. And asked, what for. He said it’s not excited. lol everyone got a trophy… lol

[Asker]

So he got a participation trophy? Well at least it's still a trophy 😂

[midnightmoon05]

NO!! omg! Just no!
I love you but do not agree with this mindset.
Kids raised with this mindset all think they are the best but with no jobs and broke and still think they are winning.

[Asker]

That was the most Asian thing you've said midnight, cause Asian parents are obsessed with pushing their kids to the best they can be 😂

[midnightmoon05]

But even my little boy who was what 6/7 years old back then didn’t agree with participation trophies. Didn’t come from me. They push themselves more. I don’t really care if they go to college. 😂 college/schools teach what to think not how to think… some people are so dumb to pay $300k lol to get brain washed hahahaa lol

[Asker]

Well college is a scam, you are right, education is free, mostly now with the internet and places like Google and YouTube, you don't gotta pay thousands anymore 😂