Fascinating things

[Lucifer MorningStar]

I like the one that's like a dozen slices of a globe.

Known as Globe Gores. Excellent image laid side by side!

I always find in interesting talking of geography etc how often many people Don’t know that there is a magnetic North and true North when teaching Navigation and map reading. So teaching them to use GMA can be mind blowing at first and it gets even more confusing when you take them to the Arctic circle as the GMA calculations can become flipped/sometimes irrelevant due to the polar magnetic fields changing everything.

 

[nickjdavis]

Man made fire - invented in Suffolk...

The moment the earliest known man-made fire was uncovered - BBC News

Archaeologists in the UK have discovered the world's oldest evidence of humans lighting fires

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Imurg]

In November '26, Voyager 1, launched in 1977, will have travelled almost 26 billion kilometres or....

1 light DAY!!!

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

The antipode of where I live is off coast of New Zealand with closest town on land being Portobello - with the bay round the corner from Portobello being Seaton Bay - and my mums maiden name is Seaton.

Fascinating? Well it was for me when I was there and found that out

 

[RichA]

None of us had heard of or seen one of these until this morning...





It's a ghost rainbow, also known as a fogbow.

 

[Doon frae Troon]

The expression 'Taking the Mick'.
I have often wondered who was the original Mick ?

 

[Hobbit]

The expression 'Taking the Mick'.
I have often wondered who was the original Mick ?

It comes from Cockney rhyming slang. “Taking the Mickey Bliss.”