Mike's World (brain farts and other adventures)Apparantly we learn something new every day. To see if this is true my new years resolution is to record what I learn each day. Note it is not to learn something new every day so it must be something I learn as I go about my normal life.
Excitingly the 749781 th digit is where my date of birth (in dd/mm/yy format) first occurs in the number π (or the 749780 th decimal place). The first date of birth as far as I can tell after a cheeky couple of ciders is 23rd of july 1981 (or 1881, 1781 etc) ie. 230781, 64 digits in.
Incidently when typing 749781 into an sms message with predictive text my mobile came up with short?
Apprantly it may not be an urban myth that the certain Somerset villages are like the ancient rulers of egypt taking sisters as their wives…
237 days or 7 and a bit months is the gestation period for a chimp. Which goes to show that a few beer drinking mildly intelligent folk in a bar can often get things just about right, especially gestation periods…
Today I learnt that my method of letting songs go in one ear and out of the other ear and not really taking in the words means I miss out on some gems… like the sexually explicit
When you’re in love with a beautiful woman, It’s hard
Not really something I have learnt today but have made a mental note not to confuse Dr Hook, Captian Hook, Captain Cook and Muslim cleric Abu Hamza
Until today I never knew that according to myth Uranus was castrated and his testicles thrown into the sea. Its when I find out things like this I am glad I never took a degree in classics
The main airport for Indonesia is sukarno-hatta named after the first president (sukarno) and vice president (hatta). Wondering if Ted Heath had a vice PM called Row?
Supplementary thing I learnt today : merpati pos is Indonesian for carrier pigeon
Board marker lids (especially blue) and twiglet tub lids are useful for making snowmen if you want it to have blue eyes and bright red lips…
The thing I learnt today is that you can generate electricity using osmosis and the Norwegians were the first to make an osmotic generator.
Today I learnt that this vital part of Geography in my first year of secondary school is not very easy to find, apparantly as they often fill in. However even more exciting I learnt that a billabong is an ox bow lake thus making the song waltzing matilda only 99% imcomprehensible.
I did not know until today that manure had never lost a 3rd round FA cup tie since the rosey nosed one became their manager.
(I also never knew what Dans riding a horse impression was like until today)