Real Facts That "Feel Wrong"

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Macadamia nuts are popular and often associated with Hawaii or Hawaiian culture, but they are originally from Australia.

But then again, Florida and California are famous for their oranges, and oranges aren't originally from the US, either.

Also the color orange was named after the fruit. So oranges are not called oranges because they're orange, the color orange got its name from oranges.

George Washington Carver did not invent nut butter as an original invention. In fact, most of his peanut and sweet potato inventions were unoriginal and or to unworkable to ever be widely used.

The English word for the color orange before "orange" came along was "yellow-red".

Donald Trump is president

and he fancies himself an amuuurican Putin.

Martin Luther King Jr. and Anne Frank were born the same year.

Strawberries contain less sugar than lemons.

But lemons must contain a lot more acid.

Strawberries aren't berries. The strawberry is an aggregate accessory fruit.

eating lemons lowers your Ph. level in your body.

The fastest sperm dies as it pierces the first membrane of ovum, then the sperm behind it can get through to the egg and fuse. We are a world of runner-uppers.

Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal, French player Richard Gasquet and Russian born Uzbekistan player Denis Istomin were all born the same year, 1986. Rafa was born first (June 3), Gasquet (June 18) and Istomin (September 7).

Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic were born one week apart in 1987. Andy is a week older, born May 15 and Novak on May 22. Farrukh Dustov, a teammate of Istomin's, was born the same day as Djokovic, but a year earlier, sharing his birth year with Istomin, Nadal and Gasquet.

Under the botanist definition of a berry, watermelons would qualify. So would cucumbers.

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Newton was born the year Gallileo died.

It is well possible that it feels wrong to you because you have in memory the globe viewed with its axial tilt.

Compared to a map (north to south line presented vertically), the axial tilt displaces the north 23° "to the right" and south 23° "to the left"

Try here (check & uncheck "show axial tilt"):
https://www.echalk.co.uk/Science/physic ... Earth.html

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I know what he means. Whats salient in most folks minds is that South American is ...south...of North America. The fact that it also east of north America is secondary. North Americans have a mental pic of the map with Mexico and central America dropping straight down, like a wet nylon stocking on a shower curtain rod, to south America. And in some highly stylized maps its depicted that way (like in corporate logos). Kinda like how Europeans think that the USA is just two regions: New York City, and the wild west. Once you leave the boroughs of New York...there you are! In Monument Valley (with John Wayne being directed by John Ford!).

The faster you go, the slower times goes to a stationary observer.

As you approach the speed of light, time approaches a standstill.

To Cleopatra VII the Great Pyramid of Giza was ancient. It was built 2491 years before her birth.