Albert Einstein said "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. " If we stop questioning, we stop learning and if we stong learning are we really living? Tim Urban is said to be one of the internet’s most popular writers. His blog – Wait But Why is very well know and his Twitter handle has over 500K followers including celebs. So when he asked people to teach him something in just one comment there were many who replied – like this:
Urban seems to want to learn – and we can all stand to gain a little information, can’t we? After all, "curiosity is the spark behind the spark of every great idea," it is said.
The internet economy has been growing seven times faster than the total US economy and created 7 million jobs in four years said one study last year. So maybe there is something to this cryptocurrency thing after all.
That doesn’t sound right! We are also informed that airlines don’t own their planes, just lease them.
Ever since they discovered how sweet and cheap high fructose corn syrup is in the 1970s in the US, this ingredient can be found in practically all packaged foods. Not only does it make the item addictive, it also increases shelf life. And then the US exported their food habits – and obesity – to other countries. So we are something of a corn-based civilization today.
This theory of evolving to become hairless in order to regulate body temperature is widely supported. There is also the theory that humans evolved to become hairless because of swimming and wading in water and to prevent being bitten by parasites that live in fur. But then why do we still have head hair!
Indubitably true! How insignificant we all are individually and how seriously we take ourselves!
They had us there for a while, didn’t they!
As Phil Collins tells us in this song.
You know how too many open tabs in the browser slow down the computer? The human brain is like that – unfinished tasks keep running in the background reducing efficiency. It makes sense to me.
As infants that is.
Babies are born with their permanent teeth – just that they don’t show yet. Permanent teeth simply erupt between ages 6 and 13 to push out the baby teeth – why the tooth fairy is a thing. As for that skull image, I'm pretty sure it is going to inhabit a few nightmares.
I suppose I am pretty lucky that I love to cycle!.
We all have cellular senescence – which means that at some point cells stop dividing; why we all die apparently. The thread had a lot of other facts – some true, some rather dubious, but do excuse me – I have to go read up about trees now.
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