Messing about with empathy
Welcome to Day 23 of my July Trivia posts.* Trivia: Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. I had never heard this and didn’t know if it was true or not. It turns out it’s false. Our eyes grow a lot during our first two…
Welcome to Day 22 of my July Trivia posts.* Trivia: Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. This may or may not be accurate. If you never use the rubber band, it doesn’t matter if you refrigerate it or not. The truth is that a cold rubber band stretches more than a hot rubber band, so…
Welcome to Day 21 of my July Trivia posts.* Trivia: Butterflies taste with their feet. This is true, and the details are even cooler. Butterflies don’t bite or chew. They suck up liquids such as nectar, sap, fruit juices, and sometimes even animal carcass juices (yuck.) They have a long tongue built like a straw…
Welcome to Day 20 of my July Trivia posts.* Trivia: There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. This is true if you include half dollars. There are 243 ways if you only use pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters. It might seem like this would take a while to figure out, but there…
Welcome to Day 19 of my July trivia posts.* Trivia: If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights. First of all, this sentence is horribly written. I would say, “An average American will spend an average of 6 months of their…
Welcome to Day 18 of my July trivia posts.* Trivia: Almonds are a member of the peach family. Wrong. The almond is in the rose family. The peach is also in the rose family, so this trivia is doubly wrong. This took me no time to research. Sigh. I give this trivia a 0 out…
Welcome to Day 17 of my July trivia posts.* Trivia: A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue. This is true. A crocodile has a membrane that stops its tongue from moving by holding it on the roof of its mouth. I can’t tell the difference between a crocodile and an alligator. I watched an entire…
Welcome to Day 16 of my July trivia posts.* Trivia: Women blink nearly twice as much as men. This one is tricky. I found a PubMed.gov article that said that women blink almost twice as much as men and older women blink more often than younger women. However, almost every other website said there was…
Welcome to Day 15 of my July trivia posts.* Trivia: Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. This is true, but not as impressive as it sounds. Peanut oil can be turned into glycerol, which is used to make nitro-glycerine, which is used to make dynamite. However, glycerol can be made from a lot…
Welcome to Day 14 of my July trivia posts.* Trivia: Babies are born without kneecaps. They don’t appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age. This is true. Amazing. I rarely think about my kneecaps. I also rarely think about babies, but the more I learn, the more I realize that babies…