The Great Wall of China is visible from space.
On average people shallow 8 spiders a year in their sleep.
Supposedly the drinking eight cups of water a day and sleeping eight hours per night is made up.
shareAlbert Einstein failed math class.
shareYour hair and fingernails continue to grow after you die.
shareNero fiddled while Rome burned.
There were no fiddles in ancient Rome.
It is believed he actually played the lyre.
shareBring me a small lyre
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiiQwTV0Xxc
Dom DeLuise. Comedy gold.
sharePolar bears are starving due to climate change
shareEvidence? Seems reasonable to me, since PBs hunt most effectively on an ice platform, which is shrinking.
shareNope. Polar bears are doing fine. This is a good summary but you can find these facts on multiple platforms.
https://fee.org/articles/the-myth-that-the-polar-bear-population-is-declining/amp
Btw the 'ice shrinking' thing is another ridiculous myth surrounding 'climate change'
i agree with you on the polar bears (which were hunted into the 70s and are certainly doing better). but i'll kinda disagree with the ice shrinking.
looking at the ice map over decades (yet, only starting in 1979) there looks to be a decrease on average for arctic ice. though 2012 being particularly bad for arctic ice and particularly good for antarctic ice. 2017 pretty bad for both. https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/charctic-interactive-sea-ice-graph/
im not an alarmist. Dr. Mototaka Nakamura who wrote "confessions of a climate scientist" a few years ago is pretty much saying the models are tinker toys and essentially worthless for predictions.
https://c-c-netzwerk.ch/images/ccn-blog_articles/717/Confessions-Nakamura.pdf
https://medium.com/@gastaotaveira/book-review-confessions-of-a-climate-scientist-b2bf0fcc2983
That the saying "Blood is thicker than water" means family comes before anyone else. But the saying actually goes: âthe blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the wombâ. Which has the total opposite meaning, where the bonds that you've made by choice are more important than the people you're related to by blood.
Also, the fact we have 5 senses - actually, we have way more.
And waking up a sleepwalker mid-sleep walk being dangerous - it's not.
Thank you for that. Itâs a shame how useful soothes become corrupted over time due to sheer ignorance, e.g., âThe proof is in the puddinâ.â
shareAh yes, the proof of the pudding is in the eating - that's not one most people I've spoken to know about. I wonder how they get corrupted over time, it's strange.
shareSloth+intellectual laziness+implicit peer pressure = verbal and intellectual corruption.
Note for everybody, especially for job recruiters: âverbalâ means âwordsâ! It is NOT synonymous with âspoken words.â ALL word use is VERBAL! I receive many job offers whose outlines requisites include âgood written and verbal skills.â The offers are written by monkeys who do not satisfy their own criteria. (I despise corporate âcommunication skills.â) What they INTEND is âgood writing and speaking skills.â What they fear is saying âgood written and oral skills,â because of the sexual connotations of âoral,â although its use in this context is perfectly polite and correctâbut only if read by an intelligent, mature and educated audience, the odds of which are slim.
âThe proof is in the puddinâ.â
Iâve not had the misfortune to hear this yet.
I've heard it said by men over 45 and grandmothers, mostly.
shareIt is an aphorism for the notion that the truth or quality for any thing or matter is in the thing or matter itself.
For example, one could have all sorts of elaborate theories concerning the quality of puddings in general or in particulars, but the ultimate determination of the quality of any particular pudding is in the pudding itself.
I understand that in England "pudding" can mean dessert in general, any dessert, rather than what Americans call pudding, a specific dessert.
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