Things most people dont know?

Question

I was listning to the radio the other day and there was an interesting piece on things from our work places that people never find out I.E a nurse rang in and said that in hospitals there are beds with false bottoms in them to carry dead people around in that just look like a made bed when being pushed around

The radio d.j said that they speed up songs to make them finish quicker and stuff like that

And a friend of mine works for a major brand company that selld powerball dishwasing tablets for your dishwasher however was telling me they are the exact same powder used in laundry powder just compressed into a tablet so its cheaper 2 buy laundry powder and use in your dishwasher.

Would love to here more like this

Answer 1

Being a DJ (vinyl), I have noticed that radio stations speed up songs to cram them in.  Sometimes by as much as two tones of pitch.

Didn't know about false-bottom beds at hospitals, interesting.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

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Answer 4

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--The fear of number 13 is called triskaidekaphobia and it was derived from treiskaideka, the Greek word for thirteen and phobia. There were thirteen people at Christ's Last Supper before his captivity, it is recorder that Christ was crucified on Friday. Routine mission to the moon goes drastically wrong on Apollo 13. Some hotels skip number thirteen when numbering rooms. In Formula 1, there is no car with the number 13.

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