The fact I found the hardest to believe is that the only muscles fingers contain are the tiny ones that make hairs stand up when you’ve got goosebumps.
You cannot burn water because it’s already burnt.
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…and Maine is not the most northerly contiguous U.S. state. Five others are farther north.
This fact will be most frequently sound fake to those who have seen U.S. maps, but have not studied a globe.
Trees are made of air.
It’s not so much that they haven’t studied a globe, but rather that the typical map of the US is rotated counterclockwise by several degrees. This makes it possible to fit a slightly larger scale map in a rectangle that would otherwise have a smaller scale. But it puts the northern tip of Maine about the same distance from the top of the map as the western end of the country and gives people the wrong idea of which is further north.
And Reno is west of Los Angeles.
It has to do with the projection the map uses. Projections are ways to attempt to draw a round globe (or part of it) on flat paper. Things always get distorted.
The same goes when people try to draw straight lines on the curved Earth. Central Indiana is laid out on a grid. County roads run east and west and north and south. You can only drive so far north or south on a county road before you come to an adjustment, and have to turn since meridians get closer towards the poles and farther apart towards the equator.
No that’s not the effect I was talking about. The projection doesn’t matter except that the typical map is not a Mercator projection.
Consider it this way: Take a typical US map and bisect it vertically. That line should be exactly north-south, right? Well, it’s not. It’s several degrees off, with the top of the line being too far west. But people assume that that line is N-S, so they get the wrong idea of how far north Maine is.
Is that because they chose to make N-S roads parallel? In which case only one road might follow a longitudinal line?
Yes. The Public Land Survey System in the US, or at least much of the US including Indiana, lays out land on a square grid, with sections of townships one mile square. Roads are often placed on the edges of these squares. Which means they don’t converge as they go north.
More precisely, they’re made from air. Well, air and water.
That doesn’t make sense. Maybe you read that more American citizens died in car accidents than died in combat in Korea. That certainly is true. But definitely not more American soldiers. From 1950 to 1953 36,516 American service members were killed in combat in Korea. That’s about the average number of motor vehicle deaths per year during that time but that’s for the entire population. Soldiers would be a small percentage of that.
I can think of three abandoned ones total but they are in different metro areas. And that’s just ones I’ve been to more than once. Of the other ones I’ve been to more than once, two are torn down, not abandoned or repurposed, and the sixth, amazingly, is still an operational pizza hut.
In fairness, at least one of the abandoned Pizza Huts is in the process of being torn down. Another one, bizarrely, became a different pizza place. I can understand that when you sell a business it is often easiest to the use the property and whatever is included in the same way. But is this wise? If an experienced company like Pizza Hut can’t make a go of it, how can some random guy?*
*It is striking how often the same type of business does badly in the same type of location. Business is tough. Covid was tough too. As a possible exception, there is a guy who made a fortune from buying failing Domino restaurants in university towns. But he was an experienced Domino’s manager who stated that these fourteen stores were unpopular because they were making misshapen pizzas and had poor delivery times and customer service - a problem he felt was easy to remedy. I wonder if this is the full story?
Yep. According to Defense Department statistics, the military averaged about 2,100 active-duty deaths per year in the 80s, versus a peak of 1,953 in 2007. Of course, the big difference is in the size of the overall force, with active-duty personnel being reduced by about a third between the mid-80s and mid-aughts.
Yep. Just look for the 45th Parallel.
“If you leave out a tray of water under a clear sky, it can turn to ice overnight even if the air temperature stays well above freezing.”
Source: Randall Monroe’s What If? 2. Unusually, he doesn’t provide any numbers so “well above” may be slippery. That’s not an ice pun.
This sentence is false.