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Samora Kiba
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Scouse said :
I thought nothing much about taking her idea until the day i logged in and found this thread pinned, since then i have felt a bit like a fraud.

So in reality, this great thread should belong to Samora, not my devious topic stealing arse =(

Setting up & maintaining a thread require effort and I don't frequent Off Topic :P
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10-Jul-2022 12:50:52

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During the American Civil War, amputations were the most common surgery done. The patient was given Chloroform as anesthesia.

Sterilization of surgical instruments didn't come about until 1865, long after the war had ended. Surgical instruments and sponges (4 inch by 4 inch gauze pads or rags) were simply rinsed in cold water, usually in a barrel full of bloody water. Sponges were rinsed in the same barrels. Both were used on the next patient.

Most Surgeons only had 2 years of medical training. Some had none at all. They learned on the job. As they got better they lost less patients.

During surgery, gloves weren't worn, they used their bare hands to probe into the wounds feeling for bits of cloth, bone fragments and the bullet. After an amputation was completed, the Surgeons rinsed off their bloody hands with cold water. The amputated limb was thrown into a pile off to one side. Eventually, someone would come around and throw the limbs in a cart and dump them in a pit. When the pit was full, it was covered up and a new one dug.

The surgical aprons that were worn soon became blood soaked all the way through to the clothes. They weren't changed between patients.

Aren't you glad for modern surgical procedures? Can you imagine the cluster of flies?

In case you're interested in some further reading, here's a link. I'll caution you, there are some explicit pictures of dead bodies and a pile of amputated limbs.

https://ehistory.osu.edu/exhibitions/cwsurgeon/cwsurgeon/amputations
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13-Jul-2022 09:52:34 - Last edited on 20-Jul-2022 08:56:29 by Prince Ott

Tuffty
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I've just been watching the bees eating my English lavender and was wondering how much nector is in each flower so did a Google.

Because each flower contains a minute amount of nectar, the 2 seconds difference in handling time is magnified many times. On average, each lavender flower with nectar contained just 0.02 microlitres. As a honey bee can hold 50 microlitres in its honey stomach, a bee would need to visit 2,500 flowers to fill up.


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08-Aug-2022 14:54:23

Scouse
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Tuffty said :
I've just been watching the bees eating my English lavender and was wondering how much nector is in each flower so did a Google.

Because each flower contains a minute amount of nectar, the 2 seconds difference in handling time is magnified many times. On average, each lavender flower with nectar contained just 0.02 microlitres. As a honey bee can hold 50 microlitres in its honey stomach, a bee would need to visit 2,500 flowers to fill up.


Fascinating factoid I never knew. I know now though.

Thanks for that Tuffters

Apparently it's a fact that at times most brains must forget something in order to make room to learn something new....

Now i have forgotten my bank pin to learn about bee's and nectar!!!

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12-Aug-2022 21:28:28

Archaeox
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The ancient Egyptian civilisation existed for so long that Cleopatra lived closer to the invention of Bitcoin than she did to the building of the pyramids.



Don't believe it?
The pyramids were built c.2500 BC
Cleopatra was Queen of Egypt from 51 to 30 BC, so 2450 years later.
Bitcoin was invented in 2008, so about 2050 years after that.
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13-Aug-2022 13:56:33 - Last edited on 13-Aug-2022 13:59:32 by Archaeox

Rooh
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Scouse said :


Apparently it's a fact that at times most brains must forget something in order to make room to learn something new....

That always reminds me of a Larson cartoon...

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14-Aug-2022 13:41:26

Archaeox
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There was a man on the moon before there were wheels on suitcases.

First moon landing: 1969
First patent for wheels on suitcases applied for: 1970 (granted 1972)
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15-Aug-2022 08:57:30 - Last edited on 15-Aug-2022 08:58:44 by Archaeox

Rooh
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iPhones have over 100,000 times more processing power than the Apollo 11 computer.
With 4GB of RAM they have over a million times more memory, and with 512GB of storage they have over seven million times more storage.
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15-Aug-2022 11:11:24

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