Something interesting you learned recently

The word "Dashboard" predates the automobile. It is derived from the horse-and-buggy days. The carriage had a fender-like board in the front to prevent mud from flying up onto the driver when the horses started dashing. Hence the name dashboard.

 

that's why i just drive with my arms crossed. i get into a lot more crashes that way, but i'm slightly less injured each time.

 

Fixed

 

If you can move your car out of the way, then it's not inevitable.

My original statement is advice from a safety bulettin. I've been in two head on collisions in which there was no time to turn to avoid the collision. I barely had time for a reflex action to brace myself with my hands holding the steering wheel, and feet pressed against the floorboard. Luckily I only had bruising. I can only imagine that folding the arms, when you know you have no safe place to turn, would have to be practiced, lol, like Krav Maga

 

There are four countries with no forest whatsoever: San Marino, Qatar, Greenland and Oman

 

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty was 9 foot tall!

 

Still doesnt make sense, the time it takes to turn the steering wheel say 45 degrees would be about the same time it takes to bring your arms to your chest and cross them

And in that half second of impending death, who the hell is going to think back to something they read on the internet a couple years before?

I call bullshit

 

That James Andrews Beard wrote an entire book on bread-baking, was self-identified as gay, and was ANTI-sourdough!

 

Learned that the phillippines don't have cold weather

 

Apparently you've never been in a situation, while driving, in which there was no way to avoid a collision. Try to imagine a car coming into your lane on a multiple lane highway, with other cars on either side of you; or a country road with trees, a rock wall, or a drop-off in the only other direction you can turn. A person can see that a crash is about ready to happen, and still have a second or more to realize they are fucked.

Who knows if a person can remember advice that they read on the internet, when the have a second to react. That makes no difference. It's still a facr that it would be the thing to do, to increase the odds of decreasing injury in most cases of a head on collision. You woukd be allowing the safety equipment to do its job, and not unnecessarily causing the added damage to arms and legs.

 

The Moon is a part of Mars

 

teetotaller - a person who never drinks alcohol

 

There is a German circus, Roncalli, that uses holographic images of animals instead of real animals, because of animal cruelty in the industry.

Looks pretty neat!

 

That's Really handy to know !

 

.......well.....and because all the animals are extinct

 

In Japan, farmers are using various strains of colored rice to create works of art in their rice fields

 

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Too bad its anime/manga

 

The library auto-renews books for you now.

 

McFuddy likes to drink Rollingalongs breast milk.