Category: Did You Know?
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Did you know: Georgian Case Marking
Georgian switches from nominative-accusative (subjects of intransitive and transitives are the same form) in the present to ergative-absolutive (subjects of intransitive and objects of transitive verbs are in the same form) in the past tense?
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Did you know: Liquid Metal
a tablespoon of Mercury weighs half a pound?
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Did you know: Vlad the Impaler
Vlad Ţepeş’ (Dracula’s inspiration) head is still in Turkey? His body is buried in the middle of a picturesque lake in Romania. (Did you know I watched someone steel dirt from that island?)
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Did you know: Supermassive Black Hole
the center of the galaxy is in the direction of Sagittarius’ arrow?
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Did you know: the 13th zodiac
most Scorpios are actually Ophiuchus? The Sun is only in front of the constellation Scorpio for about four days.
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Did you know: Astro-sign
your birth sign is actually determined by which constellation the sun is apparently in when you were born? You will never see your constellation on your birthday unless there is a solar eclipse.
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Did you know: Tropical Degrees
the tropics are determined by the maximum distance from the equator that the sun will be directly overhead on a given day of the year? 23.4 degrees, which is conveniently the tilt of the Earth’s axis. It’s like it all fits together!
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Did you know: Sundogs
sun dogs (rainbows next to the sun caused by ice crystals) are most often 22 degrees away from the sun?