Given all the quirky detours…
During warm weather, you can find out the temperature by counting cricket chirps for 15 seconds and adding 40. It’s got a name: Dolbears Law
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It’s currently 9:58 pm in part of Oregon and 10:58 pm in part of Florida.
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Were Mr. Dolbear and Sir Isaac Newton roommates?
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Ferdinand Magellan’s voyage was the first to circumnavigate the Earth.
Because tracking time & marking high noon was so crucial to knowing where they were longitudinally, they had 3 official chronographers, crew charged with keeping track of the date. (Why three? Tie breaker in case somebody was off.)
Nearing home and stopping at the Cape Verde islands, they discovered all three were off by one day. They thought it was a Wednesday, the locals assured them it was a Thursday.
They inadvertently discovered the need for an International Date Line, and because they traveled east-to-west, they lost a day. If they had gone west-to-east, they would have picked up a day.
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You and I are cousins
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This is a fascinating book about Magellan’s voyage.
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Here’s a weird fact. In 1974, Cass Elliot died of a heart attack at the age of 32 in a London flat owned by American singer Harry Nilsson that she was borrowing. Four years later, Keith Moon, drummer for the Who, died in the same apartment, which he was renting, also at age 32. His was a drug overdose.
The lesson, I suppose, is that if you are a 32-year old rock star, do not, under any circumstances, enter Flat 12, at 9 Curzon Place in the Mayfair district of Central London.
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