People who DON'T like me might say that such knowledge is useless and has no value.
Maybe they're correct.
I don't know.
...But what I do know is that some of the BEST and most fun knowledge is that which is counter-intuitive.
Knowledge that goes against the grain of intuition. Knowledge that makes you scratch your head and say "HOW can that be?". THE most classic example of counterintuitive knowledge is "The world is NOT flat", and the concept of Heliocentrism. Poor Gallileo was condemned (though not excommunicated) for this fact - but yet ultimately prevailed hundreds of years later, with formal declaration from the Vatican, on Halloween, 1992.
Other examples of counter-intuitive facts are:
- The Monty Hall Problem
- The earth is Closer to the sun in January than it is in June.
- English is not the official language of the USA
- Michael J. Fox's middle name is Andrew
- The positions of letters on a regular (QWERTY) keyboard are designed to slow you down.
- If you have a room of 23 people, there is a 50% chance that 2 of them have the same birthday.
- Matter increases in density as it gets colder. Why does ice float?
- Some aggressive animals will leave you alone if you "play dead".
- If you have a room of 23 people, there is a 50% chance that 2 of them have the same birthday.
- Matter increases in density as it gets colder. Why does ice float?
- Some aggressive animals will leave you alone if you "play dead".
- John Hanson was the first President of the United States. In fact there were six other Presidents of the United States before George Washington. Technicalities remain, but this is a fact.
- There were 4 musketeers in "The Three Musketeers" and Zero Monkeys in "12 Monkeys"
- Sound can travel 4.3 times faster in Water than it does in Air.
- Alaska has the United States' Northernmost, Westernmost, and Easternmost points.
- To go from Los Angeles, California to Reno, Nevada , you have to travel WESTward.
... and then finally (in my opinion) the GRAND-DADDY counter-intuitive fact of them all - THE REASON I wrote this blog entry.. and the one that can change all of our lives....
Reduction in Taxes Increases Government Revenues, and creates a healthier economy.
Hope you're listening, White House. Please burn some calories and validate that last one. It's important.
- Sound can travel 4.3 times faster in Water than it does in Air.
- Alaska has the United States' Northernmost, Westernmost, and Easternmost points.
- To go from Los Angeles, California to Reno, Nevada , you have to travel WESTward.
... and then finally (in my opinion) the GRAND-DADDY counter-intuitive fact of them all - THE REASON I wrote this blog entry.. and the one that can change all of our lives....
Reduction in Taxes Increases Government Revenues, and creates a healthier economy.
Hope you're listening, White House. Please burn some calories and validate that last one. It's important.
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