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Not a fact.
When I was a kid he fixed it for me to milk a cow whilst blindfolded.
I really shouldn’t have laughed when I read that, but I did.
Every atom in your body heavier than hydrogen was made in a star.
So everyone of us is full of stars.
Except for Donald Trump he is full of shit
Benoit B. Mandlebrot's middle initial stands for Benoit
Every atom in your body heavier than hydrogen was made in a star.
So everyone of us is full of stars.
The atoms on Earth have been recycled so many times, that we are all made of the same atoms that made the dinosaurs.
Every one (with a space) of us is made of dinosaurs.
I, for example, am predominantly Diplodocus.
Moby considered using the alternate lyric "we are all made of dinosaurs", but decided against it.
FACT is an organisation concerned with fat copyrights.
The average cow contains more vitamin B than the average banana.
Cows never forget a face.
Cows like jazz music.
Cows like to lick their friends, but they don't like to lick unknown cows.
Cows never cry, even if you murder their family in front of them and then barbeque them and eat them.
Bananas are a unit of radioactivity.
The average daily exposure to radiation is one hundred BED. BED is the "banana equivalent dose".
Fun Fact: The “T” at the end of Moet in the trade name Moet and Chandon, should be pronounced.
True. Chandon was French, but Moet was Dutch.
Benoit B. Mandlebrot’s middle initial stands for Benoit
Not quite true. The 'B' doesn't stand for anything (known), Mandelbrot added it to his name to sound rangy and interesting. It could be short for "Benoit B. Mandlebrot" - and I really really want it to be - but the only person who knows for certain is Bernie himself.
Mandelbrot added it to his name to sound rangy and interesting
And to distinguish him from the other Benoit Mandlebrot who played Lucy in Neighbours.
Turtle's can breathe through their bum.
Without checking I think I can state as fact that it is no longer International Fact Check Day
Six out of seven dwarfs are not happy.
The ancient Greeks couldn’t see the colour blue.
Well, they could, they just didn’t have a word for it.
I'm not a psychologist, but the commentary I read on this proposed the concept that language shapes our perceptions, so if you understand what we know as blue as just shades of other colours, you don't perceive blue itself (you can obviously physically see the those wavelengths of light but don't perceive them as blue). Might be a load of sweaty testicles, but as an artist I find it an intriguing idea.
Anyway, on a similar tip. Until the fruit of the same name came to Britain, English had no specific word for the colour orange.
That Venus thing has totally blown my mind
colournoise, it's a fascinating subject; If you don't know what the colour is, can you see it..? There was an experiment conducted on a child where the child wasn't told the colour of the sky for many years until it was asked by the father. The child supposed the sky was white, it had no real frame of reference.
Blue's such an unusual colour in nature, and the Greeks developed as colour scheme that recognised predominately dark and light, so dark green, light green (that could be shades of blue) there's a line in Greek poetry that famously describes the sea as "Wine Dark" so they didn't bother to come up with a separate colour. As you say, they could obviously perceive blue, just didn't care to name it.
I'd love to go back in time, just to ask one of them what colour they thought the sky was...
Brilliant, thanks maccruiskeen!
Mrsleffe has just informed me that orchids are named after the Greek word for testicle
Gary Numan is older than Gary Oldman