Nine Things I Picked Up From Reading
Ethan Cassidy
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“Hunger is the best sauce.” From Cervantes’ Don Quixote.
You could do a whole book of quotes from Don Quixote but I suppose then
it would be Don Quixote.
Canberra is further east than Cairns. Counter-intuitive because one is inland and one coastal.
The word ‘bible’ never appears in Shakespeare’s writings.
The digit ‘1’ is more likely than any other digit to occur in a random selection of numbers, in fact by 30%. This is called Benford’s law and has successfully been used in a fraud trial.
“The imagination of the novelist is powerless against what he knows he is going to read in tomorrow’s morning newspaper” – Philip Roth.
A snail travels at 55 metres per hour.
“More than kisses, letters mingle souls” – John Donne.
A mouse eats a quarter of its own weight in food every day, mainly to keep it warm. This is why there are no small animals in the arctic or antarctic and no reptiles or amphibians.
Why are images in a mirror left-right reversed but not upside down. That is, on a horizontal but not vertical plane?
“Hunger is the best sauce.” From Cervantes’ Don Quixote.
You could do a whole book of quotes from Don Quixote but I suppose then
it would be Don Quixote.
Canberra is further east than Cairns. Counter-intuitive because one is inland and one coastal.
The word ‘bible’ never appears in Shakespeare’s writings.
The digit ‘1’ is more likely than any other digit to occur in a random selection of numbers, in fact by 30%. This is called Benford’s law and has successfully been used in a fraud trial.
“The imagination of the novelist is powerless against what he knows he is going to read in tomorrow’s morning newspaper” – Philip Roth.
A snail travels at 55 metres per hour.
“More than kisses, letters mingle souls” – John Donne.
A mouse eats a quarter of its own weight in food every day, mainly to keep it warm. This is why there are no small animals in the arctic or antarctic and no reptiles or amphibians.
Why are images in a mirror left-right reversed but not upside down. That is, on a horizontal but not vertical plane?
Nine Things I Learned From Reading Last Month
By Jeffrey
Franz Kafka, the famous Czech writer, never married but was engaged numerous times. He would write to his first fiancee, Felice, 2, 3 or 4 letters daily when he was working in Prague and she was living in Berlin. By Kafka’s own reckoning, he wrote to her perhaps 500 letters.
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Exploring the World Through Animal Senses
By Shae Wiedermann
Humans have five traditional senses: sight, sound, smell, touch and taste. We go about the world using these senses to guide us, and we are heavily reliant on vision as our primary and dominant sense.
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4 MIN READ
National Dishes From Around the World
By Shae Wiedermann
Have you ever heard of a national dish? No doubt you’re aware of a national anthem or a national flag, but what is a national dish?
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3 MIN READ
Christmas, Hanukkah and Other Celebrations in December
By About Time
While you may have heard of Christmas and Hanukkah, did you know that there’s also an important Buddhist celebration and a Wiccan festival in the same month?
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