Real Facts That "Feel Wrong"

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eating lemons lowers your Ph. level in your body.

The fastest sperm dies as it pierces the first membrane of ovum, then the sperm behind it can get through to the egg and fuse. We are a world of runner-uppers.

Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal, French player Richard Gasquet and Russian born Uzbekistan player Denis Istomin were all born the same year, 1986. Rafa was born first (June 3), Gasquet (June 18) and Istomin (September 7).

Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic were born one week apart in 1987. Andy is a week older, born May 15 and Novak on May 22. Farrukh Dustov, a teammate of Istomin's, was born the same day as Djokovic, but a year earlier, sharing his birth year with Istomin, Nadal and Gasquet.

Under the botanist definition of a berry, watermelons would qualify. So would cucumbers.

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Newton was born the year Gallileo died.

It is well possible that it feels wrong to you because you have in memory the globe viewed with its axial tilt.

Compared to a map (north to south line presented vertically), the axial tilt displaces the north 23° "to the right" and south 23° "to the left"

Try here (check & uncheck "show axial tilt"):
https://www.echalk.co.uk/Science/physic ... Earth.html

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I know what he means. Whats salient in most folks minds is that South American is ...south...of North America. The fact that it also east of north America is secondary. North Americans have a mental pic of the map with Mexico and central America dropping straight down, like a wet nylon stocking on a shower curtain rod, to south America. And in some highly stylized maps its depicted that way (like in corporate logos). Kinda like how Europeans think that the USA is just two regions: New York City, and the wild west. Once you leave the boroughs of New York...there you are! In Monument Valley (with John Wayne being directed by John Ford!).

The faster you go, the slower times goes to a stationary observer.

As you approach the speed of light, time approaches a standstill.

To Cleopatra VII the Great Pyramid of Giza was ancient. It was built 2491 years before her birth.

That's an UNDER statement.

The point is that Cleopatra was closer to our time than she was to the time the Pyramids were built.

In Cleopatra's lifetime the Great Pyramid of Giza was about the same age as the Parthenon is now.

How does that “feel wrong”?

The author of "A Dog's Year," is Jonathan Katz.

The name "Nadal" is Catalan for "Christmas." Rafael Nadal was born in the summer, however. (June 3).

The name "Federer" is German for "feather seller." This is curiously appropriate because Roger Federer is known for having a light touch on court known as "Soft Power."

The name "Novak" means "newcomer."

The names "Ferrer" and "Ferrero" both mean "iron." Despite the fact that David Ferrer is small and Juan Carlos Ferrero is tall and slender, both men are very strong players.

They mean ‘smith’, as do their modern Spanish and Portuguese cognates, Herrero and Ferreiro, respectively. ‘Iron’ is ferro in Catalan, Italian and Portuguese, hierro in Spanish, fer in French and fier in Romanian.

^ The English word "farrier" has the same root too, for a blacksmith who shoes horses, then extended in meaning to include other aspects of caring for a horse's hooves.

Good question.

The lower the PH level is the MORE acidic it is. Since lemons are notoriously acidic you would expect that eating them would make your body more acidic (ie "lower your PH level).

That doesn't make sense.

For that to be true you would have to do a lot more than just "make up for the six months darkness at the poles".

Each of the two poles have six months of darkness, and then six months of uninterrupted sunlight.

The temperate zones get seasonal variation in length of dark and light for each 24 hour day. But over the course of the year it adds up to the same ratio as the poles of half the time dark, and half the time light.

And at the equator you still get some s slight seasonal variation in sunlight hours but its basically half and half, dark and light, each 24 hours all year long. So lets call it that. But it still adds up to the same half and half ratio that the temperate and polar regions get of sunlight and darkness.

So EVERY point on the globe gets the same ratio of darkness to light. Fifty-fifty. Its just parceled out differently.

But during daylight hours the equator gets more DIRECT sunlight because the sun spends more time at the zenith shining directly down. So during that same fifty percent of the time that both the tropics and the poles get sunlight the sunlight in tropics is more fiercely direct than is anywhere else on the planet. So the equator has to be getting more solar energy then my hometown in the termperate zone and more than does the poles.


Same number of hours of sunlight, but more intense sunlight hour per hour. So it HAS to add up to more energy per unit time per unit physical area of the earths surface.

So sumpin doesn't add up in what you're saying.