Useless Fact of the Day

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  • Merkavar
    Merkavar Posts: 3,082 Member
    coolraul07 wrote: »
    KeepRunningFatboy wrote: »
    ->" U.S. employees at large-sized companies (1000 employees or more) only spend 45 percent of their time on primary job duties. So what about the other 55 percent of the time? Their respondents reported spending 14 percent of their workweek on email. The other 40 percent of their working hours were spent on meetings, administrative tasks, and "interruptions."

    I work for a company with ~2,500 people that's part of a larger company with ~24,000 people. I'd say that's accurate, if not a slight underestimation.

    Apart for “interruptions” I would class meetings and emails and admin as part of the primary job duties.

    Like say you are a nurse, how do you do your job with out spending time at the start and end of your shift in a meeting doing handover.

    Maybe I just have a different idea in what counts as primary and secondary tasks.
  • WorkerDrone83
    WorkerDrone83 Posts: 3,195 Member
    A toothbrush isn't called a teethbrush because of the rule of not pluralizing adjectives.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    There is a rule about not pluralizing adjectives.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    Meat and cheese platters are just fancy lunchables.
  • honeybee__12
    honeybee__12 Posts: 15,688 Member
    A piece of paper can be folded no more than 9 times.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    honeybee__12 wrote: »
    A piece of paper can be folded no more than 9 times.

    The myth: You can't fold a paper in half more than eight times.

    The reality: Given a paper large enough—and enough energy—you can fold it as many times as you want.

    The problem: If you fold it 103 times, the thickness of your paper will be larger than the observable Universe: 93 billion light-years.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    No one actually eats the ribs when eating ribs.
  • honeybee__12
    honeybee__12 Posts: 15,688 Member
    It is physically impossible for a standing pig to look up into the sky.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    The more pixels something has, the less pixelated it is.
  • Timshel_
    Timshel_ Posts: 22,834 Member
    My bowl movements are generally very regular.
  • pudgy1977
    pudgy1977 Posts: 13,499 Member
    Ancient Egypt had Proctologists, they were called Neru Pehut which translates to:


    Shepherd of the Royal *kitten*

    HAHAHAHAH
  • empresssue
    empresssue Posts: 2,978 Member
    Timshel_ wrote: »
    My bowl movements are generally very regular.

    Bowl or bowel? Asking for a friend.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    Google translate is like a person who knows many languages but is not good at any of them.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    Language is just agreed upon gibberish.
  • empresssue
    empresssue Posts: 2,978 Member
    cee134 wrote: »
    Language is just agreed upon gibberish.

    My filter came on just in time to prevent a sarcastic political observation about this.

    YAY ME!!!!
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    When watching a 2hr movie you are actually looking at and processing about 170,000 still images.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
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    Caporegiem Posts: 4,297 Member
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  • honeybee__12
    honeybee__12 Posts: 15,688 Member
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  • Merkavar
    Merkavar Posts: 3,082 Member
    Caporegiem wrote: »
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    A footy player did that here a few years ago

    Hopoate was his name
  • eccomi_qui
    eccomi_qui Posts: 1,831 Member
    edited January 2018
    Caporegiem wrote: »
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    This is a prank? Me and my friends just call it Friday night
  • honeybee__12
    honeybee__12 Posts: 15,688 Member
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  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    Fire Trucks are actually Water Trucks.
  • Timshel_
    Timshel_ Posts: 22,834 Member
    cee134 wrote: »
    Fire Trucks are actually Water Trucks.

    Actually, water trucks are aspiring fire trucks.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    Timshel_ wrote: »
    cee134 wrote: »
    Fire Trucks are actually Water Trucks.

    Actually, water trucks are aspiring fire trucks.

    Good point.
  • notthistime_
    notthistime_ Posts: 76 Member
    96.4% of people love tacos
  • Merkavar
    Merkavar Posts: 3,082 Member
    cee134 wrote: »
    The more pixels something has, the less pixelated it is.

    The more holes cut into a net the less holes it has
  • Merkavar
    Merkavar Posts: 3,082 Member
    cee134 wrote: »
    Fire Trucks are actually Water Trucks.

    so should we call a flame thrower truck a water truck?
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    Not even immortals know what it's like to live forever.

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