A strange legacy of Pablo Escobar, the crime lord, is a population of feral hippos which now live in Colombia. They may actually be helpful to the overall environment.
I’m not sure if this would count as a “fact” so much as an independent discovery of what is probably a known phenomenon. To wit:
If you are carrying a nearly full mug of hot tea with milk downstairs, a wider and shallower mug is more likely to slop over than a taller and narrower mug. Both mugs are nearly but not quite straight-sided. Both mugs are filled to the same distance below the rim.
My theory is that the waves that develop in the mug from walking have less space to develop in the narrow mug and get stopped by the side of the mug before they can reach any size, while a wider mug allows the waves to develop further and perhaps accumulate their effect from one wave to the next.
Fluid dynamics pros, do I get any points for this theory?
Probably true, but even simpler is that you can tilt the narrow mug to a greater angle before it starts pouring out.
As for the Columbus/Rome one, it really depends on what you define as “the same empire”. Caesar’s empire split into two empires, and then when one of them fell, the other had no rival to the claim of being “the real Empire”. But from a neutral viewpoint, long after both have fallen, I think that it’s fair to say that the real Roman Empire, after the split, was the one that contained the actual city of Rome. Constantinople’s claim would be like if Great Britain had fallen during one of the World Wars, and the US started claiming to be the “real England”.
The ironic thing is that the spices are nominally included for their health benefits as antioxidants, etc., not taste. The base is frozen cherries, almond milk, honey, and protein powder, and in addition to the cinnamon, a teaspoon of flaxseed, and half-teaspoons of turmeric and sage. The recipe also called for fenugreek, but it’s really vile tasting, so we cut it out. Cocoa powder is added to mask some of the spices.
… and Scotland started claiming to be the “Real Great Britain”…
The pandemic has taught me that when carrying two pints of beer while masked, carrying the beers so that they are in your field of vision leads to less spillage.
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… and some German started calling himself the “Holy British Emperor”.
Measured in terms of value, not tonnage, coffee exports;
Switzerland + Germany > Brazil
Huh! I’m Swiss, and I had no idea.
I’m not sure I’d trust Swiss coffee…
“Thanks for making me this mocha, dear.”
“It’s not a mocha, it’s just plain Toblerone Dark Roast, from the ridiculously tall triangular tin! If it tastes lindty, pour some of this milka in it.”
The x-shape in the famous DNA x-ray image 51 indicates a helix because, when viewed from the side, a helix looks like alternating \ and / lines, acting like crossed diffraction gratings. The “gap” or “missing” smudge in the photo isn’t something that’s actually missing. It indicates a double helix, i.e., nested helices which are not positioned exactly out of phase. In a Youtube video, Steve Mould demonstrates this so brilliantly that professionals posting in the comments say it was much clearer than anything they’d been taught.
That’s kind of misleading, isn’t it? I mean, I presume Brazil grows coffee, while Germany and Switzerland process, package and market coffee imported from other places - including Brazil. Saying that Switzerland is a major coffee exporter is like saying that Japan is a major steel exporter, because of all the cars.
A baseball center-fielder runs a mile in every game, just from the bench to his position and back.
When something is technically true it is true.
You didn’t know that Nespresso is a Swiss company? All their capsules are made in Switzerland. That alone is a pretty major share of the market.
When does it change from “coffee beans” into ‘coffee’? Saying that because Brazil exports a lot of fermented and dried coffee beans it exports a lot of coffee is like saying that Australia is a major car exporter, because of all the iron ore.
The second part of the baby boom is sometimes referred to as “Generation Jones.”
TIL that if you are lost in Central Park, you can use the numbers on the base of the lampposts to get an idea of where you are located. I’ve never been to Central Park, but I hope I remember this in case I ever get to visit.
- The first 2 digits indicate the closest cross street on the East or West side of the Park
- If the number comprised of the last two digits is even, you are on the East side of the Park
- If the number comprised of the last two digits is odd, you are on the West side of the Park
- The larger the number comprised of the last two digits is, the closer you are to the center of the Park
Then choose one. You can’t say that both Brazil and Switzerland are major coffee exporters when Brazil exports unprocessed coffee to Switzerland and Switzerland processes it and exports it elsewhere. What they do isn’t comparable, so you shouldn’t compare them. At best, you can say that both are heavily involved in the coffee trade - which so vague that doesn’t really say anything.
I don’t think that means what you think it means.
In my opinion, you can’t say that while maintaining logical consistency. 'Kay?