The Thread for Useless, but Interesting Facts

[Azeem]

British naval officer and intelligence officer Mansfield Smith-Cumming discovered that semen made a good invisible ink during WWI. However it was ceased later for the smell and masturbatory habits of agents.

[Azeem]

Levant was like the fifth choice. Earlier choices were Texas and other places in US then East Africa

[Azeem]

All kinds of coffee beans get infected with cockroaches and it is impossible to remove them completely. So 4%-6% bug parts are allowed in coffee by regulation authorities.

[Tommy]

4 hours ago, Aladdin said:

All kinds of coffee beans get infected with cockroaches and it is impossible to remove them completely. So 4%-6% bug parts are allowed in coffee by regulation authorities.

Another reason I'm glad I don't drink coffee. 

[nudge]

4 hours ago, Aladdin said:

All kinds of coffee beans get infected with cockroaches and it is impossible to remove them completely. So 4%-6% bug parts are allowed in coffee by regulation authorities.

 

4 minutes ago, Tommy said:

Another reason I'm glad I don't drink coffee. 

 

Free protein!

[Azeem]

A British officer once took his deflated football to a cobbler in Sialkot now in modern day Pakistan. The other day he got his football fixed but then saw another football besides the cobbler, he asked where he got it to which the man said he made it himself copying from the ball he gave him. The officer started to pay him to make more footballs.

This started an industry that to this days makes the most footballs in the world, including the World Cu balls, the Champions League balls and other top leagues.

[Bluewolf]

[Rucksackfranzose]

10 hours ago, Aladdin said:

A British officer once took his deflated football to a cobbler in Sialkot now in modern day Pakistan. The other day he got his football fixed but then saw another football besides the cobbler, he asked where he got it to which the man said he made it himself copying from the ball he gave him. The officer started to pay him to make more footballs.

This started an industry that to this days makes the most footballs in the world, including the World Cu balls, the Champions League balls and other top leagues.

The formulation is a bit misleading since all WC balls from 1970 on are from adidas, which is a German enterprise and has nothing to do with Pakistan.

Edited June 21, 2022 by Rucksackfranzose

[Azeem]

1 hour ago, Rucksackfranzose said:

The formulation is a bit misleading since all WC balls from 1970 on are from adidas, which is a German enterprise and has nothing to do with Pakistan.

Self-explanatoey that its talking about factories. They shifted to Thailand, China etc but didn't get the same feedback on balls as made by Pakistani factories so their top stuff is focused there. 

And its not just Adidas that has enterprises there. 

Edited June 21, 2022 by Aladdin

[Rucksackfranzose]

3 minutes ago, Aladdin said:

Self-explanatoey that its talking about factories. They shifted to Thailand, China etc but didn't get the same feedback on balls made by Pakistani factories so their top stuff is focused there. 

Perhaps I was lost in translation, since in German typographers may print a book, still it's the author/writer, who makes it.

[Azeem]

1 minute ago, Rucksackfranzose said:

Perhaps I was lost in translation, since in German typographers may print a book, still it's the author/writer, who makes it.

Geez, nitpicking on the word 'make'. By that logic China doesn't "makes" iPhones. 

[Rucksackfranzose]

2 minutes ago, Aladdin said:

Geez, nitpicking on the word 'make'. By that logic China doesn't "makes" iPhones. 

Correct, China are manufacturing,fabricating and/or producing them, still iPhones are made by Apple.

[Azeem]

Just now, Rucksackfranzose said:

Correct, China are manufacturing,fabricating and/or producing them, still iPhones are made by Apple.

Made by Apple

Made in China

[Azeem]

If there should be this nitpicking on goods production process it should then have all the details 

Exploited from Congo

Gas from Russia

Made in China

Made by Apple

[Rucksackfranzose]

2 minutes ago, Aladdin said:

If there should be this nitpicking on goods production process it should then have all the details 

Exploited from Congo

Gas from Russia

Made in China

Made by Apple

No it should have the country were it was developed in on it, since that is the most important part. To put parts together is much easier than to develop them. A civil engineer has a better income than a mason for a reason.

[Azeem]

3 minutes ago, Rucksackfranzose said:

No it should have the country were it was developed in on it, since that is the most important part. To put parts together is much easier than to develop them. A civil engineer has a better income than a mason for a reason.

Most products, specially electronics mention where they are assembled also as services provided by assemblers are important too

[Rucksackfranzose]

30 minutes ago, Aladdin said:

Most products, specially electronics mention where they are assembled also as services provided by assemblers are important too

Might well be the case! Let's be frank,though: Adidas let fabricate their footballs in Pakistan, because salaries are much lower and labor law provisions are more entrepreneur friendly in pakistan that they are in Germany rather than because German workers and industrial plants were incapable of producing them. Although Pakistan has this economic location advantages, they still design said balls in Germany. Says a lot about the appreciation they feel for their Pakistani employees. Not saying it's impossible to think this lack of esteem is routed in racism, mind.

Edited June 21, 2022 by Rucksackfranzose

[Azeem]

The Face of Ka'aper. Wooden statue of a scribe from ancient Egypt dated around 2500 BC. The eyes are made from rock crystal and copper. 

Compare this to the shit statues of footballers they make these days. 

[Bluewolf]

[Azeem]

In Arabia blood money of one human life was equal to 100 camels. This custom came from a legend of a tribe chief who had no sons for which he was ridiculed by others.

He made a plea to God to give him 10 sons and vowed to sacrifice his 10th. He did fathered 10 sons and wanted to fulfill his promise but was stopped by others as it would be insulting and bad precedent for a tribe chief.

Soothsayers told him to sacrifice 10 camels each time instead to fulfill the promise until 100 camels were sacrificed.

[Spike]

On 21/06/2022 at 11:53, Aladdin said:

If there should be this nitpicking on goods production process it should then have all the details 

Exploited from Congo

Gas from Russia

Made in China

Made by Apple

Designed by a team of four, A. Smith, J. Sanchez, Z. Patel, K.Nakamura, in the Silicon Valley area of California, USA under the supervision of Apple Inc, assembled in China by Cao Mengde with materials sourced from the manufacturing facility of IP Freely Steel and Manufacturing in Alberta, Canada whose raw resources are mined out of Alberta, Canada, Western Australia, Australia by the mining company Santos, headquartered in London, UK, and Melbourne, Australia.

[Azeem]

5 hours ago, Spike said:

Designed by a team of four, A. Smith, J. Sanchez, Z. Patel, K.Nakamura, in the Silicon Valley area of California, USA under the supervision of Apple Inc, assembled in China by Cao Mengde with materials sourced from the manufacturing facility of IP Freely Steel and Manufacturing in Alberta, Canada whose raw resources are mined out of Alberta, Canada, Western Australia, Australia by the mining company Santos, headquartered in London, UK, and Melbourne, Australia.

And a special shout out to the child miners in Congo

[Azeem]

Germany the exception in Europe being a federation. China for obvious reasons a big country being unitary.

Some other huge countries like Saudis, Iran, Kazakhstan being unitary despite their size but they're population wise small so I bet it works well for them.

[Spike]

10 hours ago, Aladdin said:

Germany the exception in Europe being a federation. China for obvious reasons a big country being unitary.

Some other huge countries like Saudis, Iran, Kazakhstan being unitary despite their size but they're population wise small so I bet it works well for them.

What’s the difference 

[MUFC]