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Some facts (a thread that may run on, and that is entirely true if you look it up):
1. Most of the major crops in the world that are essential to human survival don’t need bees to pollinate.
1. Most of the major crops in the world that are essential to human survival don’t need bees to pollinate.
2. The immaculate conception had nothing to do with Jesus
3. Everest is not the tallest mountain on earth. It’s also not the furthest from the centre of the earth.
4. Humans did not evolve from chimps.
5. Lactic acid build-up does not make you sore.
6. All of the tongue can taste all of the flavours.
7. Your microwave and your mobile phone operate pretty similar frequencies.
8. You cannot be hung for treason in the UK (no matter what some protesting Brexit berks are saying at the moment). There is no death penalty for anything in the UK.
On that subject...
On that subject...
9. There is no freedom of speech in the UK
10. “Ye” never meant ‘the’
11. There are two Deloreans in 1885
12. The signing of the Declaration of Independence did not happen on 4 July.
13. Coca Cola did not invent Father Christmas wearing red.
14. The earth does not orbit the sun (but it does go around it)
15. Coffee is not made from beans
16. Astronauts in space do not experience zero gravity.
17. Gravity is not a force of attraction
18. It’s ‘tenterhooks’. And ‘bated’ breath.
19. An octopus does not have tentacles.
20. You only have to go back 35 generations to be related to every human that’s ever lived.
(Related: 1 in 200 men on earth are descended from Ghengis Kahn)
(Related: 1 in 200 men on earth are descended from Ghengis Kahn)
21. There is a species of jellyfish that is immortal.
22. The egg came before the chicken (because what laid it wasn’t a chicken)
23. Light doesn’t always travel at the speed of light
24. There were not three wise men in the bible. Or kings.
25. Dogs do sweat. Through their foot pads.
26. Bulls do not react to the colour red
27. The antipodes is not Australasia. Although sometimes it is.
28. On that note, Australia is not the opposite side of the world to the UK.
29. When an automatic train or bus sign tells you the transport is however many minutes away it is a measure of distance, not of time.
30. Even though logically it makes zero sense:
A dolphin is not a whale but is a type of whale, a killer whale is a dolphin, but a killer whale is a whale.
A dolphin is not a whale but is a type of whale, a killer whale is a dolphin, but a killer whale is a whale.
31: Hot water freezes more quickly than cold water.
(It’s called the Mpemba effect)
(It’s called the Mpemba effect)
32: Columbus knew the world was an (almost) sphere before he set off, he did not believe it to be flat.
It had been known since Pythagorus worked it out in c500 BC.
Henricus Martellus’ map was probably used on the journey and was pretty accurate, considering:
It had been known since Pythagorus worked it out in c500 BC.
Henricus Martellus’ map was probably used on the journey and was pretty accurate, considering:
