Real Facts That "Feel Wrong"

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oops,, I failed chemistry eating lemons RAISES your ph, makes you more alkaline. but that is counterintuitive because lemons are acidic.

This is well known but, English and Hindi ultimately originate from the same language.

The ovaries are not actually attached to the fallopian tubes. They are suspended by ligaments and the fallopian tubes and ovaries draw near each other so the egg can be swept up in to the tubes.

The first iron clad warship was launched in 1859.

Grape flavored items are based on concord grapes.

Banana flavored items are based on the Gros Michele banana, which vanished from North American markets and were replaced by the Cavendish banana after a fungus called Panama Disease wiped out the Gros Michele banana plants on South American plantations.

The disease continues to spread and the Cavendish is no longer resistant to it, thus bananas really are endangered fruit and could disappear as a commercial fruit entirely.

The steam engine is still the most efficient engine.

The Ford Model T got 21 mpg city. Not much different from conventional cars today.

You typically don't get novocaine at the dentist. They typically use lidocaine.

Yes. That IS a seeming contradiction. That eating a lemon would make your bod LESS acidic!

Very correct. The Great Pyramids were for the most part built during the time of the Old Kingdom, which was thousands of years before the New Kingdom that most people think of when they think of Ancient Egypt.

Another thing most people don't realize about the pyramids is that they look the way they do because they have been vandalized.

When finished, the exteriors of most of them had a white sheet of limestone overlaying their exterior. Imagine that in the Egyptian sun--the gleaming white exterior of a building you can see when you are still several days away by foot or caravan. It was saying HERE LIVE THE GODS in my opinion.

This layer was removed much later to build things. One was even cracked open by heating it with a bonfire and then pouring cold vinegar on it (a solution of acetic acid which ate through the calcium carbonate).

Flowers are really the sex organs of plants and fruits are really the ovaries.

There is a gigantic cloud formation over the Northern pole of the planet Saturn in the shape of a near perfect hexagon (google Saturn hexagon for pictures taken by space probes). This was discovered in the 1980s and seen again recently, so like the giant red spot on Jupiter it appears a more or less permanent feature of the planet.

^^^wish I had a powerful [at least 16" mirror reflector] telescope and lived in dark sky area, so I could see that for myself.

You cant. The poles of Saturn are not visible from ground based observations on Earth. We only know of this because of space probes that can pass over those poles.

Real Fact That Feels Wrong: No Faster-Than-Light travel or communications. I fully understand the Principle of Causality (as much as any other person with an M.S. degree); I just can't help but suspect that there is a loophole somewhere that hasn't been discovered yet -- a principle that does not require exotic matter/energy, but that relies on simple extrapolations of known scientific principles and already-existing matter/energy.

The matter that makes up the solar system: 99 percent of it is one single object: the Sun.

Of that remaining one percent of the matter in our solar system that is ...not the Sun....99 percent of THAT is one single object: the planet Jupiter.

The remaining residue of matter that is not either the Sun nor Jupiter, the remaining one part in ten thousand of the mass of the solar sytem, is everything else.

All of the asteroids, all of the comets, all of the dwarf planets, and transneptunian objects (like Pluto), all of the moons of the planets, all of the rocky terrestrial planets (mercury, Mars, Venus, and our own Earth), and each of the remaining gas giants (Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune), together constitute only one percent OF one percent of the mass of the Solar System.

I am amazed/disappointed that no earthly telescope system is yet powerful enough to directly image an extra-solar planet other than as a vague blob of light, or even to see Pluto in much detail.

Yeah. Imagine you're in D.C. and that at night you tried to look through binoculors at a lamp post, but not at a lamppost down the street, but at a lamppost in Chicago a thousand miles away, not to see the lamppost itself, but to try to see the moths flying around the lamp post. That's kinda what it's like to see exoplanets that orbit around even the nearest stars with a telescope. Not only are the bugs smaller than the light source, but they don't give off their own light, and are only visible because they feebly reflect light from the lamp post.

Donald Trump has been president for almost 2 years.

and that a numeric minority got orangatrump in there.