Before clockwise and counterclockwise, there was deosil and widdershins, using the movement of the sun to describe the rotation directions.
Clock faces were developed from the physical constraints of operating sundials so in some respect we still are using the movement of the sun to describe the rotation directions.
Christian Bale does the voice for Howl in Howl's Moving Castle, and he uses his Batman voice while transformed into his bird form.
The dub for Howl's Moving Castle came out in 2005 - 3 years before The Dark Knight.
Shakespeare couplets always rhyme if you say it like a pirate. This is because the Cornish accent is closest to middle class 16th century London.
https://youtu.be/qYiYd9RcK5M?t=18
And a comparison of sonnet 116 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bt7OynPUIY8&ab_channel=ShakespeareonToast
The Cornish accent is associated with pirates because Robert Newton played a lot of pirate characters, most famously Long John Silver, and he had a Cornish accent.
Yes, I know the story, though, honestly, lotta rl pirates from Bristol (Yes I know that's Somerset, it and Devon are "Greater Conwall" fight me.)
In reality Cornish accents are simply the closest to Shakespeare. A lot of people hear Yorkshire or Welsh or even Norwegian, because that was all part of the London community that developed Early Standard English. Having lived in Frisia, I hear a lot of Frisian.
In Latin, the word trivia means "three ways," and was the Roman name of the Thracian/Greek goddess Hecate, who governed witchcraft, the night, and various other things.
Cats and dogs aren't actually colorblind, their vision is blue-yellow
Don't give cats and dogs Twitter Blue! I repeat - don't give cats and dogs Twitter Blue!
They are colorblind because colorblindness doesn't mean "can't see any colors at all" but is a spectrum of divergence in color perception in relation to the normal human capability.
I mean the myth I always heard growing up is that they see in black/white. So sure, to our standards they're red-green blind, but they do still see in color.
Also the fact that it's specifically blue-yellow is part of the trivia. Cats can't tell the laser pointer is red, but it's still a super bright dot because of their insane light-dark discrimination.
Penguins practice prostitution for the shiny stones they use to build their nests. Sometimes the females will just take the stone and leave the male with the penguin equivalent of blue balls.
Idk if it's ever going to be relevant again but for the longest time the only member of ZZ Top who didn't have a beard had the last name beard.
- Ska came before Reggae
- Magenta isn't a real color, it's made up by your brain
- There are only 25 blimps in the world
- Basically everything we take for granted with computers we arbitrarily choses by Intel, and we just keep it by convention now.
- almost all modern american culture can be traced in some way to the state of Iowa
- you don't need to rip the Gatorade out of the ring, there is a pull tab you can use on the side
Magenta isn’t a real color, it’s made up by your brain
While I think this is metaphysical bs, the origin of the name is quite interesting:
The name comes from the Italian town of Magenta, near Milan, when so much blood was spilled there in a battle during the Sardinian War that the soil took on this color. Don't ask me if Magenta has blue soil in peace times tho
It's more that magenta does exist on the optical spectrum. There's no magenta wavelength of light, it's your brain interpolating different colors or something.
This is accurate, but even “magenta doesn’t exist on the color spectrum” is misleading.
Human color perception doesn’t exist along a spectrum. It’s a 3D space. And if you collapse down the brightness dimension or take a cross section, it looks like this. The spectrum of monochromatic visible light is the black curve along the outside, which means that pure monochromatic light is an infinitesimally small line along the higher dimensional space that is perceptible color. The majority of light we see is not monochromatic, even if we loosen up the definition to mean “pretty close to monochromatic”. So while you could say “most colors don’t exist”, I think it’s more descriptive to say that light frequencies don’t have a color at all and that color is a purely perceptual phenomenon. I can explain this more if anyone is interested. It has to do with the 4 psychological primary colors, color opposition axes, and the way our cones simulate the behavior of a Fourier transform.
Everybody knows Australia started as a penal colony. What's not as known is why they stopped sending convicts there. They stopped because of fears that the overwhelmingly male prisoners might be fucking each other.
the word "bugger", meaning to sodomize/penetrate anally/the funnest kind of sex, is related to the land of bulgeria for some reason
weirdly the americans use it to mean a small animal, which is very funnyI know why it refers to Bulgarians it's derived from how an English person would pronounce Bulgar and was from the time when we were just making shit up about Bulgaria because they weren't Catholic so we said they do sodomy, fuck animals and just generally every bad thing anyone could think of at the time.
It can mean anal but it also has heavy connotations of beastiality so I wouldn't use it to describe an evening plan
Your hands aren't the same size. One is bigger than the other.
When your hand asymmetry matches the boob or ball asymmetry :marx-ok:
It's very common to have breasts of different sizes and shape, but people don't know bc you hardly ever see naked people that haven't been airbrushed these days.
If you're in a group of at least 23 people, it is very likely that two people will have the same birthday (month and day, not year).
The derogatory term sheep-shagger wasn't originally a reference to beastiality but rather sheep rustling.
In the UK during feudalism, theft was punished more severely than other crimes so if a thief was caught running off with a sheep they might get off more lenient if they said they were fucking it.
During the 19th century, parliament ordered investigations into what crimes were going on in different parts of the British Isles. These reports were largely fraudulent in order to make Scotland, Wales and Ireland seem less "civilised" and thus excuse the crackdowns of dissent going on at the time.
Due to the amount of sheep farms in Wales at the time it was easy to fabricate lots of sheep rustling.
Hence, the Welsh being sheep-shaggers.
Edit: nowadays of course if someone calls you a sheep-shagger they are saying you fuck sheep.
