It’s a true fact! Jefferson had to invent barbed wire to keep them from murdering everyone in the UVA dorms.
You can look it up. (That phrase has been attributed to Casey Stengel but he stole it from Shakespeare.)
Thank you for not being contemptuous. That was a very solent response. That’s a word, right?
The thread title should be “Weird ‘facts’ you’ve learned recently.”
I did, however, have occasion the other day to refer to a pair of happy-looking pigs as being very gruntled.
And the thing about blueprints was a minor plot point in A Canticle for Liebowitz*. After a nuclear apocalypse, an order of monks is dutifully preserving as much of the old knowledge as they can, but without understanding most of it. So they (at least for a while) painstakingly reproduce the blue background of old diagrams, using expensive blue pigments, because they don’t know that it’s not important.
I learned this a long time ago, but it’s still my favorite:
There’s more hydrogen in a gallon of gasoline than in a gallon of liquid hydrogen.
And that the Trail of Tears (Cherokee) was during the *Van Buren *administration, not Jackson’s. Mostly caused by corruption and incompetence.
CAN contain. But if they grind it at the butchers, likely only one or a few.
It’s those chubs that are the culprit.
In the plural, “plans” in English can refer to a technical or architectural design on paper, as well, including but not limited to a blueprint.
The word “blueprint” originated because duplicated design drawings actually used to be that color, made by shining light through the original ink-and-paper drawing onto photosensitive paper that turned blue where the light struck it, and stayed white where it was shielded by the ink. Since it was about the earliest viable method for reproducing a drawing, the technology took root in the 19th century and continued through most of the next. Despite its achronistic aspect, it continues to hang on today.
Reported for fat shaming in MPSIMS. 
I though theist came to be when people wanted a way to split believers into theists and deists. Before that, most people considered the opposite of atheist to be “normal people”.
Solent and effable.
Little known fact: One of his writers is Eddie Deezen, AKA Eugene from Grease and tons of cartoon voices.
I think this is where we are all talking at cross-purposes. I’m not saying that “theist” came into use at the same time as “atheist” but when it did come into use you could not claim that it sprang from nowhere. It is clearly taken from the word “atheist” because even though it is suggested that it came from a french word, there was a conscious choice behind the construction of the that french word and the choice of it and subsequent anglicisation to express a concept. I do not buy that the word “theist” bears no relation to the word “atheist”.
Someone pointed out that “communicado” isn’t in a english dictionary, true. But one could easily imagine, through common usage, that it does find its way in there sometime in the future as a slang term meaning “able to be contacted”. If that happened I would claim that “communicado” was invented/created as a word at the same time as “incommunicado”.
This has happened to “gruntled”. it is in the dictionary as a back-transformed opposite of “disgruntled” and again, I would argue that it was coined and “invented” at the same time as “disgruntled”.
Still, I think we are veering into a philosophical area akin to trees falling in woods and I can see when a pub-argument has run its course and I’m not going convince anyone with my opinion.
Let’s get back to minced cows.
Non-specific, too. These are drawings but they’re not planos.
180, or you’re back to the same spot.
No one claimed that it sprang from nowhere. When a word “springs up” (is coined), it’s silly to claim that it existed all along.
No. No one claimed that theist came from a French word. What was claimed was that atheism and atheist came from French words. The coining and usage of atheism could have done by those having no idea about the Greek prefix “a”; just knowledge of a French word’s meaning is needed.
When was it taken from atheist? Some time later? So they came into being at the same time yet one was taken from the other later? Hmm.
:rolleyes: No one claimed that.
I’m afraid you’ve been whooshed.
I guess you could say, “That’s the point.”
Could not confirm this–can you provide a cite? How can a gallon of 100% hydrogen have less hydrogen than a gallon of anything that is not 100% hydrogen? Is the density of liquid hydrogen that low? And you must be including hydrogen bound into compounds or gasoline wouldn’t have any hydrogen at all.
Around 1/6th of gasoline is hydrogen and according to Wikipedia at least, gasoline is 10 times as dense as liquid hydrogen. Unless you have insider knowledge due to your username 
Actually, I did track it down. Liquid hydrogen does have a very low density, 70.8 kg/m[sup]3[/sup]. Gasoline is about 719.7 kg/m[sup]3[/sup]. Gasoline is about 14% hydrogen, bound into hydrocarbon molecules. So a cubic meter of gasoline has about 100.8 kg of hydrogen, more than in a gallon of liquid hydrogen.
There are 264 gallons in a cubic meter, making it rather an unfair comparison.
I can’t find a direct cite, but it’s easy to find that gasoline is about 10 times denser than liquid hydrogen.
Gasoline is almost entirely hydrocarbons. Of these, alkanes will have slightly more than 2 hydrogen per carbon, some aromatics and alkenes may have less than 2, so around 2 hydrogens per carbon overall is probably a reasonable estimate. The relative mass of carbon to hydrogen is 12:1, so that estimates the fractional amount of hydrogen by mass to be 2/14, i.e. more than 10%.
As you say, all the hydrogen is gasoline is bound in hydrocarbons, since hydrogen would escape as a gas.
ETA: multi-ninjaed.