The favorite word ask has reminded me that I don’t think I’ve sent you this ask yet: what’s your favorite fun fact?
i won't lie i spent the whole day trying to think of my favourite fun fact. several. and more i cant remember
i like to bother my family by reminding them how egyptians removed brains. they stuck a hook up the nose and scrambled it before yoinking it right out (a fact i learned when i was four and is probably not true).
yellowstone is not going to explode and kill us all
red ochre does in fact stick to your tongue and it tastes nasty as hell
we almost had sustainable "plastic"! henry ford didn't like that.
the anthropocene is not a realized geological epoch (rejected march 2024)
the coins we have today in europe and the americas are largely based off of roman coins but the practice of minting is about a thousand plus years older than the empire
neuschwanstein castle in bavaria is what sleeping beauty's castle is based on (it did not inspire the snow white OR beauty and the beast castles despite what many people think. they are WRONG)
