Little Known Facts That Might Interest You

Earth is the only planet in the solar system whose English name does not come from Greek or Roman mythology. The name was taken from Old English and Germanic. It simply means "the ground." There are, of course, many names for our planet in the thousands of languages spoken by the people of the third planet from the Sun.
 
Krystal Shay said:
We have something similiar to that also, and they do work great!

I bought some potting soil to repot my house plants. I guess it had gnats in the soil because all of a sudden gnats appeared right after I repotted my plants. They were bugging the crap out of us! They seemed to be attracted to our computers and kindles because they were constantly on the screens. So we read up on it and it seems those plug in traps have a blue light that flying insects are attracted too. We trapped them all on the sticky! (y)
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A couple comments. One guy (Rusted Garden Homestead) pours boiling water over his potting soil to kill the fungus gnats that look like fruit flies before he plants in the soil. The same bacteria that kills mosquito larva will kill the fly larva in the soil, so break up one of those dunks into the water you use to water your plants. Beneficial nematodes work too.
 

Dead skin cells are a main ingredient in household dust​



According to researchers at Imperial College London, humans shed around 200 million skin cells each hour—and they have to go somewhere when we’re indoors. If the idea of skin dust isn’t sitting well with you, you should know that a report from the American Chemical Society found that a skin oil called squalene naturally helps reduce indoor ozone levels by up to 15%—so it’s not all bad.
 
If you drill and blast a horizontal hole clear through a mountain, it is called a "tunnel." If you drill and blast a hole into a mountain to get to ore, it is called a "drift." If vertical, it is called a "shaft." If one drift is above the other and they are connected with a vertical hole, that is called a "winze."

This little gem of little known unimpressive facts, is from personal experience, not a Google find. :sneaky:
 
Shirley Martin said:

Dead skin cells are a main ingredient in household dust​



According to researchers at Imperial College London, humans shed around 200 million skin cells each hour—and they have to go somewhere when we’re indoors. If the idea of skin dust isn’t sitting well with you, you should know that a report from the American Chemical Society found that a skin oil called squalene naturally helps reduce indoor ozone levels by up to 15%—so it’s not all bad.
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For those of you thinking about making household dust stew.
 
While the story of the Pied Piper luring rats cannot be historically documented, and believed to be false, his luring children has been. The oldest comes from the Lueneburg manuscript (c 1440 – 50), which stated: “In the year of 1284, on the day of Saints John and Paul on June 26, by a piper, clothed in many kinds of colours, 130 children born in Hamelin were seduced, and lost at the place of execution near the koppen.”

I thought the entire story was fairy tail bull 💩, but I stand corrected. I guess sick, horrible, and cruel people have always existed.
 
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The oldest hotel in the world is The Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan in Japan and has been in business since 705AD. The crazy thing is that it’s still a family business. For 52 generations
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Fascinating. It appears to be constructed in a river gorge, so I was wondering if it had ever been flooded. I found this information...

"Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan’s long history includes many dramatic moments. There were massive fires in 1909 and 1916. A large rock destroyed one of the ryokan’s buildings in 1925. A major typhoon hit in 1982. As a result, the hotel’s main building has moved three times." https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/nishiyama-onsen-keiunkan-worlds-oldest-hotel-intl-hnk
 
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