That most of the Native Americans who died on The Trail of Tears did so in the internment camps rather than on the march itself. Starvation, exposure and disease were the primary causes.
This thread could be re-titled “Trivia you are wrong about, as proven by somebody who knows more about the topic than you.”
It’s also a good reminder how much “trivia” is half-true or outright nonsense.
I blame Facebook.
Mine, which I didn’t learn recently but was reminded about in another thread this morning, is why $10 note is called a “sawbuck.”
Such a duuuuh moment when I realized that.
Any given pound of ground beef contains meat from up to hundreds of different cows.
It you knew what that definition of a sawbuck was, then I can see it being a minor facepalm. But not for me since I’ve seen sawing horses but never heard them called a “sawbuck”.
I learned today that, in 1956, the pilot of a F-11 combat airplane managed to shoot his own airplane down by means of his own airplane’s guns:
They were all born into Jewish families, too. The Jewish communities of Budapest, Vienna, and a few other European cities around the turn of the 20th century gave rise to an amazing collection of highly influential people. The traditional Jewish emphasis on education and asking questions undoubtedly played a large role in this confluence of important scientists and thinkers.
Well I’ll be crosschecked. Thanks for the info.
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Wow. And he survived, to supervise the building of the first “in action” Apollo lunar lander, and even to contribute to the development of digital cameras.
Wouldn’t that be true even if it were only from one cow?
Ripe dragon fruit does have a taste–very nice.
Tiny Tim may not have died on stage, but J.I. Rodale, advocate of organic foods, probably did. It happened in 1971 during a taping of the Dick Cavett Show on which Rodale appeared as a guest. Earlier in the program he told Cavett, “I’m in such good health that I fell down a long flight of stairs yesterday and I laughed all the way”, “I’ve decided to live to be a hundred”, and “I never felt better in my life!” When Rodale’s segment was over, Cavett went on to interview Pete Hamill, who noticed at some point that Rodale didn’t look good. Several people tried to revive Rodale, including a doctor and some firefighters. He was taken to Roosevelt Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. It seems likely that Rodale died on stage.
No. 
“. . . up to hundreds. . .”
California’s boundary with Baja California doesn’t lie along a parallel of latitude, but is ever so slightly canted northward in the east. At the Pacific Ocean in the west, it’s about 23 minutes of arc further south than it is at the Colorado River in the east.
It’s not that I never noticed this before, but until a few months ago I thought its slightly tilted appearance was just an optical illusion caused by other boundaries in the area and the shape of the local coasts.
I got my Anthro degree in 1976 and it wasn’t long before everything I knew was wrong. Then I became a draftsman using pens and pencils and stuff. Obsolescence has dogged my life. 
Completely dependent on where you get your meat.
Small and local butchers will keep trimmings off the joints as they prepare them and then they mince them up and sell them. There is a lot that gets cut off even a single carcass and the trimmings will be minced fairly regularly.
There isn’t a massive amount of mixing-up done and only two-passes through the plate at most (as you get a paste very quickly by doing it more). So for local butchers it may be single animal or two/three at most in their ground beef.
Industrial production will of course be very different.
Totally. Very like kiwifruit. They call it “pittaya” in Mexico.
Dude, I feel you. I am (more or less) a friggin’ cartographer! Kids these days wouldn’t know ink on mylar if it smacked 'em on the face. 
Horses with dental problems will sometimes chew food for a while, then drop it. This is called quidding.
This weekend my gf mentioned a friend’s horse was quitting. She thought that was the term (the horse chewed for a while, then quit).
Looking into the etymology, it turns out it comes from the same origin as cud
The closest US state to Africa is Maine.