Josephine Cochran invented the dishwasher so that she wouldn’t have to wash her fine china herself and wanted a way to wash them without them breaking.
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Captured above the Amazon rainforest, these incredible aerial photos show an uncontacted tribal community made of only 100 people.
The newly-released images depict a huge, communal home inside the village, situated in Yanomami indigenous territory in northern Brazil.
They show several men and women standing inside the massive house — known as a Yanomami yano — which holds a number of tribal families. Some of them appear to be looking up at the sky, in either little or no clothing, as if they have spotted that they are being captured on camera.
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That is interesting but if they are uncontacted ,how do they know so much about them?
I believe they were first discovered in 2016. Possible some studies were undertaken since. So, not truly untainted by the rest of mankind…
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SCUBA is an acronym of Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus.
This diving gear was invented by a British man called Henry Albert Fleuss, and the first commercial application of the “Fleuss Dress” was during the construction of the Severn Railway Tunnel.
The tunnellers had struck a massive fresh water spring that flooded the workings so rapidly that they did not have time to shut bulkhead doors as they ran for their lives.
Attempts to close the bulkhead doors some 1020ft from the shaft bottom using convention hard-hat diving equipment failed because the air pipe floated to the tunnel ceiling, and after some distance the diver was unable to overcome the friction drag caused by this, preventing him from advancing further.
Mr Fleuss was employed to complete the mission but was unable and unwilling to after his first attempt. He was alone, in pitch darkness, tripping over debris and tools, as well as being completely out of contact with the surface.
Alexander Lambert, a professional diver who worked for Siebe-Gorman, made the trip using the inventor’s equipment and successfully closed the bulkhead door and sluices before returning to the surface an hour and a half after entering the flooded shaft.
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Fact: There are parts of Africa in all four hemispheres
For people whose education was largely focused on the Western world, it may be surprising to find out exactly how huge the continent of Africa is. For instance, it spans all four hemispheres and covers nearly 12 million square miles.
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Did you know that if you put a bulb in the middle of a globe, and wrap a cylinder of paper round it and trace the projected pattern, then open up the cylinder, that’s how you get a world map? It also explains why countries seem proportionally wider than they actually are.
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The first person convicted of speeding was going eight mph.
According to Guinness World Records , the first person to be charged with speeding was Walter Arnold of the English village of Paddock Wood, Kent.
On Jan. 28, 1896, Arnold was spotted going four times the speed limit in his 19th-century Benz—but since the speed limit at the time was just two miles per hour, that meant he was not going too fast by today’s standards.
The constable had to chase him down on his bicycle, issuing a ticket for £4 7s and earning Arnold the speedy distinction.
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And divided up by Europe.
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OZ Beer sizes. A half pint is called a middy in Sydney ,Canberra and Perth, a handle in Darwin,a pot in Brisbane and Melbourne ,a schooner in Adelaide,and a ten in Hobart.
for more interesting beer facts see here:
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Weetabix is not sold under that name in Australia.There is a similar ,but inferior imo ,locally produced cereal called Weetbix.But happily the original genuine Weetabix is actually available but called Harbour Foods Whole Wheat Biscuits.
May be useful info for a first time shopper here.
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Cheddar Cheese is named after the cheddaring process, not the village of Cheddar in Somerset, England.
The cheddaring process is named after … the village of Cheddar in Somerset, England.
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Meet Lyndall Locke, He dated Beyonce for 10 years before her singing career really took off & before she met Jay Z…
According to him she asked for them to “take a break” once her career started taking priority & that’s when he cheated on her, from there on, he only got to see her on TV…
But at least he gets to say “Once upon a time Beyonce Loved me”
You think anybody in his neighbourhood or family will ever let him forget how he fumbled BEYONCE?!
Moral of the story: If you think you have Regrets in life, just imagine what this man has…
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No way it would have lasted even if he was the nicest ever. No need for regrets. Some things just weren’t meant to be.
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Pantheon, Rome, Italy
The oldest door still in use in Rome. Cast in bronze for emperor Hadrian’s rebuilding, they date from about 115 AD.
Each door is solid bronze seven and a half feet wide & twenty-five feet high, yet so well balanced they can be pushed or pulled open easily by one person. It’s also one of the only two doors in the world with a 2000 year old lock that is still working.
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We used to have blast doors about that size and a quarter of a metre thick on the test houses where I was once gainfully employed. After many decades the hinges became worn and the doors didn’t open properly, so they were removed and set down flat on the ground for repairs.
Some wag put a pair of boots at the bottom of one door, a yellow hard hat at the top, and a leather rigger’s glove to each side. 
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Do you know how a memory stick stores information?
It’s all down to MOSFET’s (Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor)
Which is basically a switch that is either on or off. Each MOSFET has a resistor and Capacitor situated in a micro circuit. Depending on the component, with no power applied the MOSFET is on, and with a power supply the MOSFET will turn off. Once the capacitor has been charged it will hold the switch on for at least ten years.
Now to the good bit…Because one MOSFET = one Byte, or one piece of info, we need trillions of MOSFET’s to make a memory stick. 32 million million in a 32 Gb stick.
So they etch each circuit onto a piece of silicon using a special machine. There are only three companies in the world that make these very expensive machines…
The individual nano circuits are so small, that to make bigger memory sticks the circuits will have to be the size of an atom…
If you want to know more watch this link…I think its mind blowing…
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Cups used to be stored hanging from pegs or hooks on a plain wooden plank, called a cup-board. Later someone came up with the idea of adding a surround and doors to keep the dust off, becoming the cupboard as we know it today.
When a table was cleared of plates etcetera, things were put to one side on a wooden board for storage. This was known as siding the table and the board was known as a side-board. Again, someone came up with the idea of adding a surround and doors, becoming the sideboard as we know it today.
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Before the invention of the rudder, ships were steered by a large oar known as a steorbord, or steer-board. The majority of people in the world were and are right handed, so the steerboard was always fitted on the right, which is from where the word starboard originates to indicate that side of a ship.
A ship with a steorbord was always parked with its left side against a wharf or dock for loading. This lading side was known as the ladebord which is where the term larboard meaning lading or left side originated.
Larboard and starboard sound similar which could cause orders to be confused, so in 1844 the Royal Navy instructed the lading side where the entry port was situated to be referred to as the port side.
Gradually other countries followed suit and now the left and right of a ship (whether waterborne or airborne) are internationally known as port and starboard.
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