In Which I Mimic The Fact Sphere
Oct. 22nd, 2011 09:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mancalledtrueDue to computer woes, there won't be Chapter 9 of LOTD for a while. Instead, have some facts that may or may not be true.
"Persistence of vision" is the term for the brain's tendency to fill in the gaps between images seen by the rods and cones in your eyes. This is why animation is possible.
Edgar Allen Poe died of rabies, not of alcoholism, as is commonly believed.
Toast was not initially meant to be eaten, but instead to be used as a form of communication. Messages were written on bread, thrown over great distances, memorized, and then crumbled and tossed to pigeons.
Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin when mold formed on petri dishes he had left in his lab overnight. The mold had unfortunately rendered his sea-monkey colonies extinct.
George Bernard Shaw did not shave in order to hide scars inflicted on his face in a battle with a large black bear.
The Popemobile can go from zero to sixty in eight seconds.
Although Robert Peary was not the first person to reach the North Pole, he was the first person to successfully lose all of his toes in the process of trying.
The ground sloth predates humanity.
Bozeman's Simplex, an optical condition that causes the sufferer to see far more of the visual spectrum than normal, is characterized by one iris consistently pointing up and one pointing down.
Gingers do have souls. They do not, however, have empathy.
In some cultures, slurping while eating is considered good manners.
Human blood is a good conductor of electricity. It also tastes great on ice cream.
The fork was introduced to Italy in the 15th century, and was rejected by clergymen on the grounds that you should not touch God's bounty with anything not made by God.
Bourbon is distilled from scotch. Scotch is distilled from Englishmen's urine.
The "gulf stream" is a wind current that blows strongly in certain portions of the Atlantic Ocean. It is caused by mermaids.
"Persistence of vision" is the term for the brain's tendency to fill in the gaps between images seen by the rods and cones in your eyes. This is why animation is possible.
Edgar Allen Poe died of rabies, not of alcoholism, as is commonly believed.
Toast was not initially meant to be eaten, but instead to be used as a form of communication. Messages were written on bread, thrown over great distances, memorized, and then crumbled and tossed to pigeons.
Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin when mold formed on petri dishes he had left in his lab overnight. The mold had unfortunately rendered his sea-monkey colonies extinct.
George Bernard Shaw did not shave in order to hide scars inflicted on his face in a battle with a large black bear.
The Popemobile can go from zero to sixty in eight seconds.
Although Robert Peary was not the first person to reach the North Pole, he was the first person to successfully lose all of his toes in the process of trying.
The ground sloth predates humanity.
Bozeman's Simplex, an optical condition that causes the sufferer to see far more of the visual spectrum than normal, is characterized by one iris consistently pointing up and one pointing down.
Gingers do have souls. They do not, however, have empathy.
In some cultures, slurping while eating is considered good manners.
Human blood is a good conductor of electricity. It also tastes great on ice cream.
The fork was introduced to Italy in the 15th century, and was rejected by clergymen on the grounds that you should not touch God's bounty with anything not made by God.
Bourbon is distilled from scotch. Scotch is distilled from Englishmen's urine.
The "gulf stream" is a wind current that blows strongly in certain portions of the Atlantic Ocean. It is caused by mermaids.
