Posted on 05/13/2019 4:03:36 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
In no particular order, here are some mind-bendingly incredible facts that we didn't learn at high school, but wish we did. Because I certainly would have paid a whole lot more attention if my teacher had shared a few of these insights in class.
Side note: if you did learn about all of this and more at school, then you had a kick-ass teacher and you should probably tell them that.
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Remember the shot Bubba Watson hit from the trees on #10 at Augusta??? AWESOME!!!!!!!!
Tiger Woods can turn them right and left at will. He’s made some unbelievable shots under tournament pressure in the past.
I have never seen a shot like the one of Bubba Watson...
R U Eulering me?
real fast
Louis Pasteur and I were lab partners.
Wow! High school in France. How cool is that!!!
But Bubba hasn't dominated the sport like Tiger Woods has. Tiger has hit many, many impossible legendary, tournament-winning shots in his career, including incredible hooks to the green from impossible positions like Bubba's.
My money's on Tiger.
6. The author is incorrect in his explanation of what the researcher is trying to say. Its entirely different.
11. Didn’t we all learn to do this falling off of/out of things? No? Im just weird?
#8 So not just women then? : )
Nice. Thanks for posting.
Oddly I knew all of these things with the exception of lasers.
In 1966 lasers were new cutting edge technology and did not exist in high school. The others I did know about.
Dimmed the lights when I charged it up.
Right. At that age mostly girls. Then women. Then Got married. Then 1 woman.
I knew the pinhole thing (anybody remember making a pinhole camera from a shoebox?). The finger pinhole does bail me out at restaurants these days when I’ve left the reading glasses in the car.
Dimmed the lights when I charged it up.
As a kid, I was into transformers, step up/down, neon light, oil burner, battery charger, tesla coil...
Made a traveling arc for the 7th-grade science fair.
Much, much less complex than a laser.
Rewound a monster battery charger for use as an arc welder.
It worked, kind of/sort of and also produced prodigious TVI.
The neighbors were most vociferous.
I could never play with it during TV prime time.
Even at that young age, I knew way better than to do anything when GUNSMOKE was on the TV, that would have been a painful mistake.
I’m thinking that the 9th Circus Court will be reversing this shortly...
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