People Shared 60 Fun Facts From Their Profession That Might Not Be Common Knowledge

I'm a school/passenger bus driver. Driving a bus is MUCH more mentally taxing than driving a car. Also, buses do not have a parking gear. Instead, you put it in neutral and manually pull the parking brake. And finally, most buses have air brakes, meaning the brakes only work if you have enough air pressure. Any punctures in the break system means you're doomed. Well, actually that's exactly why the parking brake is separate.

The sound engineers for everyone’s favorite music artists from the last 20 years use pitch correction on vocals (auto tune or similar brand) the way a chef at a restaurant uses salt and butter. Even a lot of the rootsy sounding stuff. Once you get used to hearing it you can’t unhear it and it’s eeeeeverywhere. And I’m ok with it, because here’s another less known fact: you still have to be a great singer to sing with pitch correction. It cannot make up for being a bad singer. That’s false.

All Microsoft CD's were made in Puerto Rico from 2002 through 2015.

An infant’s linear growth doesn’t really start to take off until they start weight bearing (pulling to stand and cruising ) … If they are delayed in weight bearing then you notice that their length isn’t where it should be on the growth chart

Stocks and bonds are typically presented as the “go-to” investments for building wealth, but in reality there’s so much more: REITS, ETF’s, CD’s, UIT’s, Annuities and Life Insurance.
Also, BLACK PEOPLE need to look into setting up trusts and holding accounts to protect their assets.
I don’t see a lot of with trusts.

we can take a frozen section during surgical procedures that can give us a diagnosis within 20 minutes of removal. it’s nice because a lot of the time these patients are awake and anxious. they can have their diagnosis during their procedure and it doesn’t have to be a long drawn out thing.

Let’s say a baptized Catholic - even one who hasn’t seen the inside of a church in years - marries someone at a courthouse, or in front of a JOP or at the Elvis chapel in Vegas, and later gets divorced, and they want a Church wedding for try #2.
All they’d need is to do is complete a Lack of Valid Form Investigation, with *official* copies of their Baptism Certificate, Marriage abstract and Divorce decree. Takes three weeks.

Fast flowing water has lower pressure than static (non-flowing) water, therefore a pressure washer should be called a high velocity washer.

having no health insurance is cheaper than health insurance if you are healthy due to self pay discount

The full moon does in fact have a bad effect on psych patients.

A pair of shoes that cost $100 in the store, cost $5 when procuring... Old ladies are the largest customer group that buys bacon.

If you know the color code for telephony cables, you can terminate up to 3600 pairs of copper wires (more common), with the largest cable recorded being 4200 pairs.
Blue, orange, green, brown, slate
White, red, black, yellow, violet

I worked in a government treasury. If you have millions of dollars, you can buy a CD for a single day and make a few hundred or thousands of dollars depending on the CD amount. Single day CD’s for the rich, but not for us.

They are called vocal folds not cords/chords. 🤗

You can take 3 random points anywhere on the planet and they will share a common radius point.

If you were trapped in a burning building, and our fire system deployed, you’d be unharmed by the chemicals and none of the unburned assets would be damaged. It’s magic 🪄

Growing pains don’t exist! Of course when a kid is growing this can cause some muscle/ bone aching but it only comes and goes, but if it’s sustained pain it’s something else, usually hypermobility related! So for if your kid is having pain that’s sustained enough to get into a specialist, it’s not growing pains!

When you watch a livestream on a streaming service like Netflix, the feed getting cut out is never the service's fault, it's usually ground crew affected by something like weather or the company that the service is sourcing the feed from

If you are going to cook something to its correct internal temperature you do NOT need to wear gloves to handle it. Ie; cheese on pizza

Chlorine was invented as a chemical warfare agent. Now we are mandated to use it to disinfect our drinking water.