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Did you know that crows hold what essentially are funerals? Yeah, hundreds of them flock to the location, but avoid the body and don’t scavenge it. It’s thought that this may be a kind of survival strategy, to make sure that they avoid potential threats even if food is plentiful where the crow’s body was found.

That’s probably something ornithologists (bird scientists) know. Turns out there are a lot of facts only specialists know! Let’s take a look at some of them as shared by Redditors.

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35 Facts That Are Common Knowledge In These People’s Fields But Are Not Known To The Wider Audience Trucker here and we don't want to be anywhere near you either.

Go around or stay back don't just ride right beside us. We can't see you very well when you are beside us and if s**t happens you're gonna go splat.

It is very very very rare that any driver wants to slow you down it's not like we get our rocks off on making you late. We work extremely long hours on very little sleep and we just wanna get where we are going without getting in an accident and killing someone.

Trust me if we could go faster we damn sure would.

Also if you give us the fist pump to honk our horn you just made our whole week. That's one of the greatest joys in a truckers life.

Be safe out there!!


Edit: A reoccurring comment is that most of you get it and are very cool but you hate when a truck driver hops in the hammer lane when you're trying to pass them at a reasonable speed. I'm with you on that and Im here to tell you most truck drivers are not a******s like that and the real truckers hate the ones that are. Every profession has a group of a******s that ruin it for the good ones.

Edit Edit: This has gotten an unexpectedly high response and I really appreciate all of you joining in the conversation. If we would all just communicate like this more often we could solve a lot of problems in this world.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

my father always told me : "if you can't see his side-view mirrors, he doesn’t see you either"

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35 Facts That Are Common Knowledge In These People’s Fields But Are Not Known To The Wider Audience In movies they unnecessarily yank on horses’ reins, practically ripping their mouths out. Anytime you see their mouths open with the bit pulled way back in there, they’re not having fun and it’s for no reason other than maybe drama and the trainers are s****y for letting that happen.

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35 Facts That Are Common Knowledge In These People’s Fields But Are Not Known To The Wider Audience People almost always try to exit through the same door they entered. In a crowded venue ALWAYS take a second to find your exit and then find a second exit. Mark them in your brain just in case. In an emergency most of the crowd is going to go for the main door they came in through. Knowing where another exit is can save your life.

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It's not the CIA or the government that's tracking your every move. It's marketing agencies.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Let's be honest.... both the government AND marketing companies are tracking our every move. It's only one that pays attention to the information before something happens.

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35 Facts That Are Common Knowledge In These People’s Fields But Are Not Known To The Wider Audience Being nice and patient will give you a bigger chance of getting a refund or a new of whatever is broken, than being angry and blaming the random worker.

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35 Facts That Are Common Knowledge In These People’s Fields But Are Not Known To The Wider Audience People make most decisions based on emotion, then rummage around for logic to back up what they’ve already decided

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You need to finish the entire course of the antibiotics you were prescribed. You don’t suddenly stop taking them after you start feeling better.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's distressing how many people Act like they don't know this when I Know their doctors emphasized it to them. (not a medical practitioner, just a lover of science).

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The ER is there to keep you from having a catastrophic outcome in the next few hours/days (or next few minutes, in some cases.) If nothing irreversible is going to happen for several days, they don’t really care what the problem is.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Part of the problem in the US arises from our insane healthcare system. People who can't afford health insurance, or who have lost their insurance, often use the ER as their primary doctor.

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35 Facts That Are Common Knowledge In These People’s Fields But Are Not Known To The Wider Audience Those "high end" or "expensive" neighborhoods they slap up really fast... Usually, gated communities and other semi-exclusive suburbs full of McMansions are built with the absolute cheapest materials and poorest quality/ untrained labor.

Never buy a "spec" home without some serious research into what you're actually buying. All that "luxury" is barely surface deep.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Quickest way to check - are the baseboards (skirting boards) MDF? If so, run.

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35 Facts That Are Common Knowledge In These People’s Fields But Are Not Known To The Wider Audience In Archaeology, it’s super awesome and great that you brought stuff to an archaeologist at a local dig site near you of things you found in your backyard or nearby asking us appraise it - but the thing is, we’re actually more interested in the context the item(s) are found. We need/want to see the bigger picture. Arrowheads, flintknaps, trade beads, etc are super cool but they are worth so much more when we can tell if they are part of a hoard, burials site, ceremonial site, etc.

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35 Facts That Are Common Knowledge In These People’s Fields But Are Not Known To The Wider Audience Trees do not heal through regeneration like people think they do.

They quite literally just grow over it. The tree can close the wound off in a way not really visible to us but it will never grow back that same tissue in the same way like we would when we cut ourselves.

It would be like growing a second layer of skin over a cut and never really healing the cut. Your body would make it stop bleeding but you’d alway be able to see your cut if you peel the layers of skin that grew over top.

Trees are like onions, just like Ogres! They have layers.

I always think of a jaw breaker when I work with trees.

Did anyone get my Shrek reference? I should go to bed now.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

🎶 Crawling in my trees, these wounds, they will not heal 🎶

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35 Facts That Are Common Knowledge In These People’s Fields But Are Not Known To The Wider Audience Police can lie to you, including about whether or not they’re police.

ETA - In the US. (I’ve offended the Europeans by forgetting they exist. 🇺🇸😎)

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's one of the many reasons that unless you are a victim of a crime or need a police report for insurance you never talk to the police. They say you're a potential witness but they could be sizing you up as a suspect. Many people have talked their way in to an arrest and life is never the same after that. Police care about clearing cases, they'll decide you're their person and then make sure the evidence points to your guilt. It's not necesarilly corruption it's myopia, they'll fixate on you and ignore or discount exonerating evidence because the KNOW you're guilty. There are cops who swear a guy is guilty even after the suspect is exonerated by DNA because they have such tunnel vision.

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We have cameras that can see what is in your trash as we dump it. Some companies even take snap shots of every can's contents to catch hazmat items. They bill the city, with the address it came from, and the city could follow up with the homeowner for reimbursement if they choose.

How crappy, in general, people are at making sure they are recycling the right items and properly cleaning some of their items before putting them in the recycling bin.

We remember the houses with issues, people that try to double dump, overfill, and dump hazmat. We watch for those offenders specifically.

We will pull out cans for handicapped people, dump them, and put them back. You have to call and have that setup though.

The garbage man knows whats going on in your neighborhood, almost as well as the mailman.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh sorry thank you for doing what seems to be a thankless job meant to type it go distracted.

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If a website is slow there’s a big change it’s not because the developers did a bad job but because marketing insisted on putting dozens of trackers and ads on it.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A big part of how fast or slow a website is is down to how much traffic not only it is receiving but any other websites cohosted with it or even in the same datacenter.

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35 Facts That Are Common Knowledge In These People’s Fields But Are Not Known To The Wider Audience UTIs will often cause confusion in people over 70.


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UTI is Urinary Tract Infection and some people can get confused to the point of hallucinations and delirium. It can cause increased weakness which also leads to falls.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Constipation can also cause confusion in older people. There were times older people were admitted to hospital for routine procedures, became constipated (perhaps due to a difference in diet, and the use of pain medication), and seemed to have developed dementia. When the constipation was treated, the dementia disappeared.

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35 Facts That Are Common Knowledge In These People’s Fields But Are Not Known To The Wider Audience Most public defenders are competent actually.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I really admire lawyers who choose to become public defenders. They are overworked, underpaid, and absolutely necessary.

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35 Facts That Are Common Knowledge In These People’s Fields But Are Not Known To The Wider Audience When a person “flat lines” you cannot shock them out of it.

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35 Facts That Are Common Knowledge In These People’s Fields But Are Not Known To The Wider Audience In any given nature documentary, the protagonist animal you’re rooting for is ‘played’ by several different ‘actors’ - i.e. that one brown bear’s story is patched together from footage of a bunch of different bears. And in about 90% of the ‘animal reacting’ shots they’re reacting to the camera crew. Nature documentaries are heavily constructed.

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35 Facts That Are Common Knowledge In These People’s Fields But Are Not Known To The Wider Audience An elevator will go up to the top of the hoist instead of crash to the floor in most catastrophic failures due to the counter weights.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So instead of being squished, you W***y Wonka thru the roof of the building. Cool 😅

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35 Facts That Are Common Knowledge In These People’s Fields But Are Not Known To The Wider Audience If you have sad vegetables(carrots celery)or lettuce that look wilted not bad you can make them crunchy by shocking in ice water.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have done this multiple times to get an extra day or two out of them

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35 Facts That Are Common Knowledge In These People’s Fields But Are Not Known To The Wider Audience People (users) are the weakest link in most technology systems. 99% of the time.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Way, way back in 1992, at a security convention, there was a prize/reward for anyone who could beat the security on a new machine. A friend listened to the person on the stall, asked for their business card, and phoned the office. The friend impersonated the salesperson and said they had forgotten the password. One of the people gave them the password. This was then used to access the computer. :) Humans are the weakest link.

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When you go out to clubs or any place with some sort of "strip" (aka Broadway in nashville) the volume is 11 times out of ten too loud. I work at barstool occasionally as AV and at night it's gotten up to 110-115 DB. For reference, the threshold of pain is 120 db. Wear hearing protection people. You can't get that s**t back.

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35 Facts That Are Common Knowledge In These People’s Fields But Are Not Known To The Wider Audience I work in acrylic sheet.

The number of people who do not understand what translucent means is astounding.

Translucent =/= Transparent. Translucent is SOLID color that allows light transmission- it glows. Transparent is just that..transparent.

We have customers call us All. The. Time. Telling us we filled an order wrong, that they received “a solid color and ordered translucent red”.

**EDIT: thanks for all the upvotes and thoughts!

For clarification, majority of these customers order online either through our website or Etsy. Both sites have dozens of pictures and videos explaining and showing the differences!

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Week one of science lessons. See also, the difference between a clear and colourless liquid.

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35 Facts That Are Common Knowledge In These People’s Fields But Are Not Known To The Wider Audience Cement and concrete are not the same thing. Cement is the main ingredient in concrete, but concrete is the whole mixture of cement, sand, aggregate, water, etc.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There are different recipes for concrete depending on how it is going to be used. But I'm not aware of any recipes where cement is the main ingredient. A fairly standard concrete mix would be 1 part cement to 2 parts sand to 4 parts aggregates. For foundations, a mix of 1 part cement to 3 parts sand to 6 parts aggregates can be used.

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35 Facts That Are Common Knowledge In These People’s Fields But Are Not Known To The Wider Audience Bed bugs don’t make you a nasty person with a nasty home. An infestation isn’t due to a sanitation issue. They’re an imported pest, which means they hitched a ride on something you brought into the house. Usually luggage or furniture

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No. But donating your bedbug infested items makes you are a very nasty person.

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35 Facts That Are Common Knowledge In These People’s Fields But Are Not Known To The Wider Audience Generally speaking, if you add the percentage of the body covered in 3rd degree burns and the persons age together you get the likelihood of it being a fatal burn.

32 and 40% burn coverage? about 70% of people in that condition will die.



Source: Firey, working closely with several doctors from burns units.

Edit: I love the 100 year old people comments and the people with 0% burns but in thier 30s lamenting the 40% death chance.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So a an 80 year old with burn covering 30% of their body has a 110% chance of dying?

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35 Facts That Are Common Knowledge In These People’s Fields But Are Not Known To The Wider Audience Mushrooms are genetically closer related to Humans than to Plants

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35 Facts That Are Common Knowledge In These People’s Fields But Are Not Known To The Wider Audience Volumetricly, most rocks are made of mostly oxygen. Most of the entire Earth (crust and mantle) is also nearly half oxygen (by mass).

If you've ever read "OxYgeN DisCoVeReD on mOOn!" ... It's rocks. It means they've discovered rocks.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oxygen as part of a compound is absolutely not the same thing as oxygen as an element. Rocks are predominately Oxides. It is water that is the interesting substance to find on other planets, as it is needed to sustain life (as we know it).

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35 Facts That Are Common Knowledge In These People’s Fields But Are Not Known To The Wider Audience The world runs on MS Excel

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35 Facts That Are Common Knowledge In These People’s Fields But Are Not Known To The Wider Audience Urban heat kills way more people in Australia than bushfires. In the 2009 Black Saturday bishfires in Victoria, 173 people died in the fires, but over 300 died of the heat prior to that.

Also, most of those deaths occur at night, not during th day.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Now this is something I didn't know! I wonder what the stats are on deaths from the smoke that was in the air all of the Black Summer too?

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35 Facts That Are Common Knowledge In These People’s Fields But Are Not Known To The Wider Audience Powerful explosives are so insensitive to shock that it usually takes a smaller, more sensitive explosive to set them off.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Unless they are in an unstable state. For example dynamite sweats when it is unstable and the slightest knock can set it off.

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35 Facts That Are Common Knowledge In These People’s Fields But Are Not Known To The Wider Audience There is no "fractured" vs "broken" there are only different types of fractures. It's really a semantic problem but patients get heated about it.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It was only on BP that I found out people didn't know this. Maybe because my mum was a nurse, but I have know this from quite young, and I haven't ever broken a bone.

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35 Facts That Are Common Knowledge In These People’s Fields But Are Not Known To The Wider Audience Credit and debit are different. I could not believe how many people did not understand this.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well obviously. One begins with 'C', the other with 'D'.

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35 Facts That Are Common Knowledge In These People’s Fields But Are Not Known To The Wider Audience Styrofoam is a brand name, it is polystyrene foam.

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Your mailman knows a lot about you. More than you think.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i dont think they care (credibility is that both parents have worked for australia post for many years)

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35 Facts That Are Common Knowledge In These People’s Fields But Are Not Known To The Wider Audience A hysterectomy is removal of the uterus only, *not* the ovaries.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Removal of the ovaries is called an Ovariotomy or Oophorectomy. A subtotal hysterectomy leaves the cervix in place.

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35 Facts That Are Common Knowledge In These People’s Fields But Are Not Known To The Wider Audience Lab grown diamonds cost $2 per ct. Of electricity to grow. The "value" price has absolutely plummeted on them the last 2 years. Most especially the last 8 months. Don't overpay on them as they all perform. 1 cts currently 6-800. So for the first time in the history of the jewelry world you can officially buy moissanites from "high end" brands that are more expensive than their lab grown diamonds of same quality. 😆


The amount of people robbed of value the last 2 years is in the millions and dollar amount unfathomable. Had a guy as recent as March spend $24,000 on a 3 ct. Lab grown online when I was finding them for $5500 at the time. Places are rushing to make money back from buying in bulk. There will be a documentary about this some day.

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It takes a small army a week to shoot a 30-second commercial.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

yeah. my dad was in a commercial for his job and it took days even though it was a really short commercial.

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35 Facts That Are Common Knowledge In These People’s Fields But Are Not Known To The Wider Audience Pain is effectively a psychological phenomenon and a terrible indicator of physical injury.
Far too many people think the human body is a simple cause and effect model (it hurts therefore something where the pain is located must be 'wrong'). Instead it is much more like a set of wildly complex, interdependent systems like climate or stock markets. A lot of medical diagnosis is educated guessing with an overreliance on singular labels for the benefit of explaining the situation to the patient.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

All pain is processed in the brain, that’s why they knock you out during surgery. Pain is always real, no matter the cause. Pain is definitely not as simple as damage to flesh and bone or nerves = pain. Think of phantom limb pain and the case documented in the BMJ with a scaffolder in agony with a nail through his foot. When doctors removed his boot it had gone between his toes and not injured him. We’re now recognising a different pain mechanism, nociplastic pain that causes chronic primary pain. It doesn’t respond well to medication but does to learning strategies such as pacing and mindfulness. There’s no reason not to explain this well to patients and wider society.

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Genetics: there's a bunch of stuff we don't report back because they're considered incidental findings.

This can include genetic diseases with no treatment/mitigation.

Or non-paternity. If your kid is sick with a genetic disease and you go get genetic testing done for mom, dad and little timmy, we do not automatically report back if dad is no relation or is actually an uncle.

At the same time in most places you have the right to request your data.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This makes no sense--just because there's nothing that can be done about a genetic disease **today** doesn't mean there won't be something **tomorrow**.

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35 Facts That Are Common Knowledge In These People’s Fields But Are Not Known To The Wider Audience The sensors in digital cameras (including phones) are monochromatic (they don’t “see” color) and have a tiny color filter on each sensor element so it can detect one of three colors (red, green, blue). Then the image is created by calculating what the other two colors might be based on one color value and the values of the nearest sensors around it. tldr; 2/3 of the color in a digital photo is calculated from the 1/3 that is actual data.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've never understood why green instead of yellow. The primary colors are red, yellow, and blue. All other colors (I'm not including black/white) are combinations of these. Yellow + blue = green.

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A lot of people think that commercial aircraft “fly themselves.”

In truth, all takeoffs are flown manually by the pilots as are the vast majority of landings. The autopilot is advanced in a lot of aircraft, but it also screws up often and without warning.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've watched enough movies to know that pilots perform manual takeoffs, but landings are all done by some random passenger after the pilot is incapacitated

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35 Facts That Are Common Knowledge In These People’s Fields But Are Not Known To The Wider Audience When I worked as a barista: how much f*****g syrup is in flavored drinks. At the cafe I worked at, we measured flavoring by grams. If you got a large mocha, that m**********r would have like 110
grams of chocolate sauce in it.

If you want a little bit of flavor, I suggest only 1 pump. 2 max.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I used to ask for 5 pumps in my latte at starbucks because I'm an American like that, except one time I used the wrong word and asked for 5 shots and that was a TOTALLY different experience.

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Programming/Hacking. Many companies pride themselves on being extremely secure and "un-hackable" to an extent- they also advertise that if you use their service your assets are super secure and nothing will/could ever happen.

In reality everything can be exploited. Nothing is completely safe and nothing probably will ever be completely safe.

Another one which I really wish more people knew is that- anyone who encounters a person that calls themselves a "hacker" all of a sudden becomes scared of their capabilities. "I better not p**s this person off otherwise they'll ruin my life" in reality only a small portion of hackers actually have the knowledge to do something that would influence your life in a very bad way. Most people who call themselves hackers barely know anything and can only pull off a few tricks others find very intimidating. The biggest tool these types of people have are scare tactics- using simple tricks that others find very intimidating can get them very far.

Dont get my wrong though- you do get hackers who can influence your life in a very big negative way but its very rare and most of the people who have this knowledge dont care enough to put in the effort to hack you unless you're someone very important.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"hacker" is like "alpha male" - any one boasting about being one in public isn't

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35 Facts That Are Common Knowledge In These People’s Fields But Are Not Known To The Wider Audience Laywers can fix almost any mistake / f**kup / blown deadline in State Court and almost never in Federal Court.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The moral of this tale is, regardless of which court you're appearing in, try to get a lawyer that doesn't make any mistakes/fuckups/blown deadlines. I'm not an expert but you can probably trust me on this.

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A traffic light changing colors at an intersection involves lots of math. The amount of time it stays as a yellow light followed by it turning red at which point all directions will be red for a period of 1-3 seconds is all done by specific calculations. Everything is taken into consideration for it when all the lights are red for that brief second - how many meters/feet is the intersection, what is the speed limit vs the actual travelling speed, average amount of cars that pass that spot in an hour, following distance, the grade of the road if it's on a 1% incline it'll be different timing than of it were on a 2% incline.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The traffic light does no such thing. The traffic light sits at a fixed point and so all of those variables are also fixed (unless the speed limit gets changed). You mean that someone has used a formula to calculate how long the amber phase of the lights should be based on those variables and programmed it into the traffic light.

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The opposite sides of a die should always add up to seven. On a craps table, you'll see the "stick" dealer bring the dice to the middle of the table and separate them corner to corner. This is so the person sitting down (box supervisor) can verify with the mirror opposite of them that the opposite sides total seven.

2/5 1/6 3/4

Source: 14+ years of dealing table games.

Edit: Apologies. I should've included "sides of a six-sided die".

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Doesn't everyone know this? I've known this since primary school.

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