when the great pyramids were being built, there were still mammoths and sabertooth tigers walking the earth.
and Cleopatra lived closer to the moon landings than to the building of the pyramids
I knew about the relict popularion of mammoths that was still around. Wasn’t aware of the tigers. Can you please tell me more?
I can’t 100% give you facts. I just go off of the rough estimate of fossil records for both mammoth and sabertooth tigers roughly and this is just a random thing I like to tell people when I was younger to kind of blow their mind.
Grostesques are mythical or fantastical creatures carved into the sides of building. If they have been designed to drain water away from the building, they are called gargoyles .
That’s not useless! I’m totally using this to impress someone, someday.
That REAL Pi actually ends at 7 digits. Discovered by a greengrocer named Dennis.
There’s been an easy say to calculate it since 1800s using an abacus.
Edit: thought the /s was implied with, you know, “Dennis.” I knew I should have gone with “Humperdink.”
I would like to learn more about this. Wiki says:
In the 5th century AD, Chinese mathematicians approximated π to seven digits, while Indian mathematicians made a five-digit approximation, both using techniques.
So it looks like they were all approximations, but it actually is much longer like I was always taught.
Snakes have two penises. Or at least pythons do.
I am currently naked.
me2
Television is one of the few words combined by one greek part and one latin part.
Alaska is the eastern most state of the USA.
Canada is simultaneously to the north, south, east and west of the US.
If presented with an old 1970-2000 era landline phone, I can call someone by rapidly hanging up in the pattern of their phone number.
In case anyone is wondering, this is how old phones with rotary dials worked: you wound the dial to the digit you needed and the built-in mechanism would automatically wind it back; as it did it would momentarily disconnect the line as it passed each digit generating pulses that the exchange would count. If you still live somewhere where landline phones exist odds are this still works because the exchange maintains backwards compatibility with pulse dialling.
Up until about twenty years ago virtually every supermarket had a phone by the checkouts with a single pre-programmed button for a local taxi company; we used this trick all the time to call home, our mates, etc.
I am pretty sure I could do it sans phone and only the handle, by rapidly pulling the plug out of the socket and putting it back in.
Never thought to try it when I had the chance.
An electric eel is not an eel.
A mountain goat is not a goat.
A maned wolf is not a wolf.
A mountain chicken is not a chicken.Also, there is an animal called the Headless Chicken Fish.
Also, there is an animal called the Headless Chicken Fish.
Let me guess; it’s a species of antelope.
I know how to fix the entire world.
Everything flawlessly. Human satisfaction at all time highs.
So much so that the largest problem that humanity would face is the ennui of not knowing what to do with itself.
As to why this is a useless fact:
Even if I’m 100% correct, nobody wants to hear it.
No one will work with me to accomplish these things.
All this knowledge does is add misery to my own life, knowing that I could make things better if only.
Ok, I’ll bite. What’s the quick summary of your idea?
Of course I’m skeptical, I think there must be at least one major issue keeping it from having happened already, but also curious.
Uh, I mean I could probably write a 30 or 40 page manifesto explaining it, but what it boils down to is the main bottleneck in human society is resource management combined with a lack of vision and purpose.
Anything above the level of the family has resources, needs, and uses that are being managed by people that are ultimately too selfish, too greedy, and not interconnected enough to work together.
Sure, but what do you propose to manage said resources?
So far planned economies haven’t gone well in practice. (Not that the unplanned type is great either)
Like 15% of people can rumble their ears and make a sound only they can hear
I always just assumed this was a thing anyone could do, Is there some other name for this i can look into?
“Loanword” is a calque, and “calque” is a loanword.
Whats a calque
It’s a loanword from the French “calque”
A compound word that enters another language via direct translation of its parts.
As an example, “loanword” comes from German “Lehnwort”, with Lehn = loan and Wort = word.
