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When large ships sink they create intense vortexes that suck everything down with them.

The Lusitania was a ‘four stack” passenger ship that was sunk by being torpedoed by a German U boat during WWI and it is major reason why the US entered WWI.

The ship sank 18 minutes after it was torpedoed.

Here is the interesting parts.

1. It sank in relatively shallow water so as it was sinking it sort of settled/stopped so a number of passengers thought it was safe to stay on the side of hull of the ship. Unfortunately it ended up completely sinking.

2. A women on the Lusitania jumped off the ship as the ship sank and she was sucked into one of the exhaust stacks. As she was getting sucked under the ocean a boiler inside the ship exploded and she was shot out of the stack very much like a circus clown cannon and was thrown clear of the wreckage. She was one of the few who survived!

That colour can be a consequence of the physical structure of a colourless surface.

While pill bugs are great at eating decaying plant matter in a garden, they will also wreak havoc on plants if the soil is kept too wet. It’s difficult to find a balance with plants that require a lot of water to grow.

I had 5 luffa plants in my garden that had to be cut down yesterday because pill bugs ate through a good chunk of the stem. I was sad to cut them down, but I still have 4 more that are potted. I just have to keep the snails away from them.

They made little clay bird skulls that they would put in pies back in the medieval times. It would whistle when the pie was hot. This is said to be the origin of "Four and Twenty Blackbirds, baked in a pie" line from a nursery rhyme. There are other theories as well, besides this.

Coal ash is more radioactive than nuclear waste

I've recently learned through experience that the temperature of brewing in my stovetop affects flavours of coffee so much that depending on the beans I have to adjust my breakfast routine.

I'm struggling not to get caught up into coffee brewing nerdery now. I have enough expenses and things on my mind already.

Humans can regrow ribs

My learning curve has risen steeply over the past few days. I've come across great teachers among the so-called internet strangers.

And certainly l'm learning about the internet and open source.

A small fun fact about Switzerland and currency exchange. The CHF-EUR exchange rate when Euro was established was around 1.6... today it is 0.916. A personal observation when in the country: dividing the price of everything in Switzerland by 2 seems to make price levels somewhat about on par with the other Western European countries

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