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Everybody should know we live in the past by about 80 milliseconds, the lag between things happening and us experiencing them.
blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/201...
blogs.scientificamerican.com230
Everybody should know that all animals from shrews to blue whales live for roughly the same number of heartbeats, about one and a half billion.
npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128...
npr.org233
Everybody should know 1.6 billion people, a quarter of humanity, live without electricity.
globalissues.org/article/26/poverty-facts-and...
globalissues.org251
TIL when the Internet was first conceived of in 1962 it was called the “Galactic Network”. (Xpost from EverybodyShouldKnow)
newmedia.org/history-of-the-internet.html
newmedia.org18826
Everybody should know Paul Newman, was one of the 20 people on Richard Nixon’s “Enemies List” created during the Watergate scandal.
enemieslist.info/list1.php80
Everyone should know there have been as many 47 recessions in the US since 1790, roughly one every four and half years.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recessions_in_t...
en.wikipedia.org120
Everybody should know the Japanese national anthem is the world’s shortest at four lines long and world’s oldest, written in the 9th century.
national-anthems.org/anthems/country/JAPAN
national-anthems.org125
Everybody should know the world's most dangerous animal is the common housefly because they transmit more diseases than any other.
animal.discovery.com/convergence/whoasunday/f...
animal.discovery.com201
