A few things I’ve learned because I was writing about vampires and werewolves (keep in mind I’ve been writing about them a long time):
- The Parthenon took less time to build than the original U.S. Capitol building
- The speed of sound is 1,225 km/hr at sea level
- All the full moons have names (and most have many names)
- Not too many websites allow you to calculate the date and time of the full moon out to the year 2200
- The entire midsection of the United States used to be a large inland sea
- There are very few country borders across which a dog without papers and vaccination records can easily travel
- ‘Bemused’ and ‘amused’ are not synonyms
- ‘Nonplussed’ does not mean unimpressed
- The word ‘psychology’ was invented in Latin in the late 15th/ early 16th centuries
- One of the more famous chess games in history, the so-called Immortal Game, was played between Adolf Anderssen and Lionel Kieseritzky in 1851
- One can usually get a discount on dog licenses if one neuters one’s pet
This seems like depressingly few facts, come to think of it – but I’m tired of searching through these endless reams of story pages. I’m sure I’ll come up with more later.
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