Dull fact:
S.O.S. Doesn't actually stand for anything, nope not "Save our Souls" or anything like that.
In fact, the code is meant to be an ever continuing series of dots and dashes.
It only became "S.O.S." because it's a convenient abbreviation.
In morse code, it's simply used as a distress signal because it's an unique code, departed from anything else.
I'm upset that I know this.
I'm truly sorry for your downvotes, it's on of the earliest quirky facts I learnt, it even prompted me to learn Morse and I would whistle out Morse tunes confessing my feelings to my crush but she was none the wiser
S.O.S. Doesn't actually stand for anything, nope not "Save our Souls" or anything like that.
In fact, the code is meant to be an ever continuing series of dots and dashes.
It only became "S.O.S." because it's a convenient abbreviation.
In morse code, it's simply used as a distress signal because it's an unique code, departed from anything else.
I'm upset that I know this.