What's the most "oof" or wtf fact you know about an everyday object?
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helluva mouse problem at the Maxim house
I mean... not anymore.
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You know they are some of the most iconic uniforms of all time I'll give them that
And yet they did not designed them just used their looms and sewing machines
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Mine is this little tidbit about Khaki's from https://www.heddels.com/2019/05/history-khaki-anything-drab/
"Tried and tested by all the major powers, khaki-dyed, lightweight cotton twills became the de facto uniform for any colonizing power. If you were going to ship your boys abroad to pillage and conquer someplace in the Southern Hemisphere, khaki was your go-to color."
Some antique toasters gracefully lifted your toast, perfectly browned, rather than popping them up like it's trying to give you a heart attack.
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Hiram Maxim (1840 - 1916) invented the modern mousetrap and the first automatic machine gun.
I believe that he also invented the first silencers.
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Yeah, it sounds like this might not actually be as common as suggested. Synthetic chemicals are usually going to be cheaper than hunting a beaver.
Makes me wonder why whale puke still gets used in cosmetics...
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There are petroleum free alternatives.
https://www.forestgum.de/products/minze-9er-18er-packBut they are very small alternatives.
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Some antique toasters gracefully lifted your toast, perfectly browned, rather than popping them up like it's trying to give you a heart attack.
I too dream of the sunbeam radiant toaster.
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Some antique toasters gracefully lifted your toast, perfectly browned, rather than popping them up like it's trying to give you a heart attack.
I have one from the 50s/60s(?) that will gradually let two slices of toast up, but if you have only one piece of toast and you put it in the wrong slot, it will literally fly out of the toaster.
I had to move the fridge after losing several pieces of toast between it and the counter before I learned what was going on. Was very confused about missing bread and the cat was a prime suspect.
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I merely stated basic facts of how microwaves work. It is only your own shortcomings and assumptions that leave you confused.
But you're incorrect. Microwaves penetrate through many substances fairly well, mostly passing through them. The microwave ovens we use to cook are tuned to resonate with water molecules, and as a result the waves interact more frequently with those molecules. But in general, the waves just bounce around until they do interact with something, and it could be any particle within your hot pocket that it interacts with, not just the surface.
All that is to say, microwaves do heat all throughout whatever you put in. Now, these waves can also excite particles and moisture in the air within the oven, and there is convection between the air and your hot pocket... But air is less dense than food, so convection will be secondary heating at best, and cooling at worst.
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The chainsaw was first used to saw bone, not trees. This was before anesthesia.
The band saw was also created to cut through meat and bone.
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Hiram Maxim (1840 - 1916) invented the modern mousetrap and the first automatic machine gun.
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-- Hiram Maxim, probably
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But you're incorrect. Microwaves penetrate through many substances fairly well, mostly passing through them. The microwave ovens we use to cook are tuned to resonate with water molecules, and as a result the waves interact more frequently with those molecules. But in general, the waves just bounce around until they do interact with something, and it could be any particle within your hot pocket that it interacts with, not just the surface.
All that is to say, microwaves do heat all throughout whatever you put in. Now, these waves can also excite particles and moisture in the air within the oven, and there is convection between the air and your hot pocket... But air is less dense than food, so convection will be secondary heating at best, and cooling at worst.
Yeah. They don't penetrate an unlimited distance into the food, the center of some stuff won't get heated. But they penetrate a lot further than the 0 distance that ambient heat from the outside does, conducting heat straight to the skin of the food and then letting it work its way in from there.
No idea what this person's issue is, I sort of suspect that it's just Lemmy in action, doing its thing.
