22 Facts People Only Know Because They Have A Very Specific Job
These thirty facts are common knowledge to people who work in specific industries, but unknown to the rest of the population. Thanks to the internet, these specialized folks have been kind enough to share their unique knowledge with the rest of us, and you might be surprised with some of the cool facts that you learn.
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I work in live chat support. We can see what you type when you are chatting with us, before you send it.
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As a chemist the thing that gets me every time is the, "I don't want chemicals in my..." Literally everything is a chemical!
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That if your IT guy is not busy, he is doing a good job, not a bad one and you don't need to fire him.
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Turning your computer or phone off and on again will fix a solid 70-80% of all problems the device likely has.
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In Jewelry, a diamond is a luxury expense not an investment. Gold is the investment. If you try to sell your engagement ring you’ll get maybe 20% of what you initially paid for it. Jewelers can get diamonds for a fraction of what you paid for it.
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The first thing you do if you think your computer is being hacked is unplug it from the network (or disable the Wi-Fi).
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An elevator will go up to the top of the hoist instead of crash to the floor in most catastrophic failures due to the counter weights.
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Most people are not good at detecting lies, and consistently score no better than chance (50/50) when tested. The score goes up slightly when it's someone they know that they're talking to, but not much. Ironically, most people rate themselves as very good at detecting lies, but they're wrong.
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Touching your fresh tattoo with your unwashed fingers is bad. It's absurd how many times we have to tell this to people.
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A corporate policy of requiring users to change their passwords every 90 days **does not** make your system more secure. It tends to actually make things less secure.
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Potential cancer cells develop in the human body every day and our immune system efficiently kills them without any trouble and we just go on living our lives like nothing ever happened.
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One of my favorite facts about alcohol ads: In the US, nobody is allowed to be shown actually drinking the product. They can only be shown 'enjoying' it in ways that don't involve drinking it – so essentially holding it, pouring it, handing it to a friend, etc.
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There is no such thing as a perfectly functioning aircraft. Every plane you fly on has a multitude of maintenance issues, just not severe enough to affect safety of flight.
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When you delete a file from your HD, only the information of how to reach these memory slots coherently is deleted. The raw information remains there until overwritten. That's why companies (should) destroy their disks on decommission instead of just formatting them.
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Drowning is silent. I pulled out a kid literally less than a foot away from a large group of adults and not one of them noticed that his head was totally submerged and that he was struggling.
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Nominal pipe diameters are not indicative of their actual diameter. So a 1" pipe is rarely actually 1" in either outside or inside diameter. Why? I have no idea. But if you drill a hole of exact diameter and stick that pipe in there, you're going to have a bad time.
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There is a surprising amount of infrastructure under your feet. You’d be surprised how much public utility runs underneath private property. Always call before you dig.
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Most 911 calls an ambulance receives on a daily basis are not remotely close to being emergencies.
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