{"id":9373,"date":"2020-08-13T09:49:35","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T08:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mentor.com\/colinwalls\/?p=9373"},"modified":"2026-03-26T17:00:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T21:00:41","slug":"daily-learning-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/2020\/08\/13\/daily-learning-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily learning continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My practice of <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mentor.com\/colinwalls\/blog\/2020\/06\/18\/yet-more-things-i-learned\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recording things I learned each day<\/a> continues, but I notice that I am not quite so observant of or receptive to new information as I was. I wonder if this is a lock-down thing? \u2026<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Here is a selection of new, useful (?) facts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The hippo is the world\u2019s deadliest land animal.<\/li>\n<li>When a Muslim baby is born the first thing it hears is it\u2019s father&#8217;s voice saying a prayer.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cArriviste\u201d is a great word &#8211; noun or adjective.<\/li>\n<li>Pirates used an eye patch to preserve night vision in one eye to let them see below deck, when they\u2019d swap eyes.<\/li>\n<li>Saying: No one ever made a greater mistake than the man who did nothing because he could only do a little.<\/li>\n<li>A teardrop tattoo means someone has killed a person.<\/li>\n<li>Elizabeth I did not execute many Catholics, but fined\/taxed them \u00a320 a month, which raised \u00a345K at the time of the Spanish Armada.<\/li>\n<li>Michelle Obama\u2019s maiden name was Robinson.<\/li>\n<li>5^5 x 4^4 x 3^3 x 2^2 x 1^1 = number of milliseconds in a year.<\/li>\n<li>The \u201cbeep\u201d during NASA radio communications is called a &#8220;Quindar-Tone\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There will be more &#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>My practice of recording things I learned each day continues, but I notice that I am not quite so observant&#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-9373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning-resources","tag-off-topic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71677"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9402,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9373\/revisions\/9402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9373"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=9373"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=9373"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}