{"id":9261,"date":"2020-04-09T08:54:54","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T07:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mentor.com\/colinwalls\/?p=9261"},"modified":"2026-03-26T16:59:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T20:59:36","slug":"more-things-that-i-learned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/2020\/04\/09\/more-things-that-i-learned\/","title":{"rendered":"More things that I learned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mentor.com\/colinwalls\/blog\/2020\/02\/20\/what-i-learned\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote about<\/a> a project that my wife and I started last year. The idea was to think about what we had learned each day, record it and discuss from time to time. I shared some interesting examples of nuggets of new knowledge \u2026<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Today I would like to share another selection, having filtered out the personal or anachronistic ones:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dolphins don\u2019t breath automatically; they have to do so consciously.<\/li>\n<li>Electric bikes have a fixed max speed of 15mph. Any faster and they are classed as a moped.<\/li>\n<li>Cold water can measurably reduce stress.<\/li>\n<li>The first American consulate in Great Britain was established in Queen Square in Bristol in 1792.<\/li>\n<li>The collective noun for Dolphins is a pod.<\/li>\n<li>A proctor was historically a class of lawyer. Now it is a management post at certain universities.<\/li>\n<li>Some birds [like gannets] migrate to Africa when they fledge and then return 2 summers later.<\/li>\n<li>Many MacBook problems may be solved with ALT\/CMD\/SHIFT\/POWER.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cStridulation\u201d is the sound insects like crickets make my rubbing their legs together.<\/li>\n<li>The shortest serving UK Chancellor was Iain Macleod, who died in office in 1970.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Interestingly, we have both noticed that, in these unusual times, we are less receptive to learning new things. I hope that changes in due course &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/colinwalls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6579\" src=\"http:\/\/s3-blogs.mentor.com\/colinwalls\/files\/2014\/01\/linkedin.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/colin_walls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6583\" src=\"http:\/\/s3-blogs.mentor.com\/colinwalls\/files\/2014\/01\/twitter.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/colinwalls.author\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6591\" src=\"http:\/\/s3-blogs.mentor.com\/colinwalls\/files\/2014\/01\/facebook.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.mentor.com\/colinwalls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6599\" src=\"http:\/\/s3-blogs.mentor.com\/colinwalls\/files\/2014\/01\/wordpress.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently wrote about a project that my wife and I started last year. 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