{"id":9418,"date":"2020-10-22T03:51:08","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T07:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/?p=9418"},"modified":"2020-10-22T04:10:18","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T08:10:18","slug":"off_topic-things-i-learned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/2020\/10\/22\/off_topic-things-i-learned\/","title":{"rendered":"OFF-TOPIC: Things I learned"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A while ago, my wife and I started a project to record things that we had learned. It started with the thought that it is a sad day when you fail to learn anything new. But it is easy to forget this new knowledge. I would like to share a few recent examples:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Police call a vehicle\u2019s registration its \u201cindex\u201d<\/li><li>An astronaut has to learn survival skills as an emergency landing could put them down anywhere and they might need to wait 3 days for rescue<\/li><li>For &gt;150 years, up to 1751, dates were different in Britain and other European countries<\/li><li>Buckingham Palace is 15X the size of the White House<\/li><li>Joe Biden\u2019s wife is Jill. His previous wife was killed in a road accident<\/li><li>A pattern-maker\u2019s measure is not standard units; everything is a bit bigger to allow for shrinkage of a cast item<\/li><li>Eels have no gender<\/li><li>Hinton-in-the-Hedges is an actual place<\/li><li>You are 12X more likely to die in a car journey than by rail<\/li><li>On iPhone\/iPad, 3-finger left swipe is undo<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>There may be more \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago, my wife and I started a project to record things that we had learned. It started with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71677,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[302],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-9418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning-resources","tag-off-topic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71677"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9418"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9420,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9418\/revisions\/9420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9418"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=9418"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=9418"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}