40 Bits Of Knowledge People Learnt That Feel Almost Illegal To Know, Shared In This Online Group

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A friend of mine used to be a locksmith for the council here in England. On several occasions he had to gain access to properties so the police could get inside, usually because a dead body's smell had alerted neighbours. Apparently they were always really suspicious as to how he was so good and so quick at picking locks. Oh no, not because it was his job for twenty years, he must've definitely been a criminal :-D

A lot better than picking your nose👃

I too have lockpicking equipment, and for no real reason

My dad taught me too! I have a history of locking myself out. It’s a survival tool, not a criminal thing 😁 locks are cool mechanisms to learn! No shame!!!

Very true. Do not upset people who can take you apart and *maybe*, if they feel like it, put you together again.

I didn't want to be a doctor, just wanted a drivers' license, which entails a first aid course. It was held by an older, sort of burnt out EMT, and he started by saying we should never kill ourselves. BUT if we really wanted to, just please don't make an EMT's day extremely sh**** by trying to save us, just do it properly! And then he talked for about 3 hours about people who tried various ways and where they made a mistake, and how they should've done it if they really wanted results. Then went into general injuries, and how people made them worse by not knowing basic first aid. It was a memorable course....

Makes sense, you need to know what NOT to do as well as what to do.

That's why ''Do no harm'' is the first sentence in the Hippocratic Oath.

Off to med school I go

That's nice of England. Here in the US they will cut you off and fine your neighbor if they help you out

We (in the USA) sent the payment wrong on accident and were short $1 and got a 3 day shut off notice if we didn't immediately pay $26. $1 we owed and $25 late fee. Had never missed a payment in 20 years before that.

If you are struggling to pay bills don't ignore the calls. At least in the US most utilities have assistance programs you can qualify for and they can help you get enrolled in them. Or you can set up payment arrangements. I've worked in a billing dept for utilities before, most of the time people got cut off because they wouldn't talk to us, those that did call almost always got some kind of help and prevented disconnection

An ex of mine was a debt advisor for the Citizens Advice Bureau - I remember her saying the same thing

I know in my state in the US that if you have some kind of medical problem and you get a note from your doctor they can't shut your power off. Like say you need to use some kind of machine or sleep apnea something like that most doctors are cool enough to write a note

and that money you pay to the journal? NONE of it goes to the scientist who wrote the paper.

take some 51+ million of publications from https://sci-hub.se/ or google sci-hub. I read that most-ish scientists are supporting this database.

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If it were me, I'd be thrilled someone was interested in my work!

This is true -- speaking as a researcher. We don't get any money from publishers. We're getting our salaries from universities and other institutions (mostly publicly funded, at least in many parts of the world). We are obliged to publish in research journals, so we compete for their columns, meet their unfair requirements (why employ an editor, like any decent publisher, if you can just make the author edit and format their work?), sometimes even pay for the privilege of being published. And then the same institutions that employ us have to pay outrageous price for access to the texts we publish so that their students and employees have access to the state of art research. We have no incentive whatsoever to care for the interests of the publishers, and frankly, most of us positively resent them. And we have every incentive to divulge our research as wide as possible (once it's published, of course -- before that it's top secret ;) )

As one of them, I fully endorse this. We don't get anything from the journals and books anyway: too many copies must be sold before any kind of royalty comes our way

I work at Disney and this is only partially true. The lions aren’t chained (no zoo or attraction chains lions…c’mon). The rock is heated and air conditioned to provide comfort for the lions and to entice them to stay out in the open, visible to guests. There are absolutely barriers, though, between the lions and guests, and between the lions and other animals. The level of barrier varies by animal. You may have a giraffe walk up to the safari ride to say hi, but you will never get too close to a lion…or hippo, or elephant, or gator….

Did they tell the lion he has "no reason to attack anybody?"

A salient reminder that animals generally do not attack people without reason: usually only for defence, protection (of young or themselves) or for food. The revenge or pure violence motives we attach to animal attacks are for the most part simply not there. Though, that said, the famous attack on a ship by a whale that inspired Moby D**k did reek of a revenge attack. In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick, a great book about the events - the whale attack was just the start of it!

Just a big napping kitty. He also has a gulch dug between him and the road.

I hope he's happy in prison.