Over the Edge

Over the Edge

What shape did medieval people believe the earth was?

Wrong. Since around the fourth century BC, almost no-one, anywhere has believed the earth to be flat. This misconception that people where ignorant of the shape of the earth comes from the partially fictional text ‘The Life And Voyages Of Christopher Columbus’ (1828), which incorrectly stated that Columbus set out to prove the earth was round. Truth is, nobody would have disputed the theory. Evidence shows that almost all cultures of the world worked out, through mathematics or just observation, the spherical nature of the Earth.

Source: Listverse again!

Quote:

"There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow." -Orison Swett Marden

A Collective Post

A Collective Post

Misquotation:

"The ends justify the means." –Niccolò Machiavelli.
A more literal translation, according to Peter and Julia Bondanella of Indiana University, is "One must consider the final result."

Cognitive bias:

Fundamental attribution error: A tendency for people to over-emphasize personality-based explanations for behaviors observed in others while under-emphasizing the role and power of situational influences on the same behavior.

Operation Wrath of God:

After the Terrorist group Black September kidnapped and murdered 11 Israeli athletes during the Munich Olympics in 1972, the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad decided to seek revenge under Operation Wrath of God. During this time, covert Israeli assassination units killed dozens of suspected conspirators across Europe. The string of assassinations spurred retaliations and criticism of Israeli. The film Munich outlined these events.

Sources: Wikipedia and Listverse

حبة حبشتكانات

حبة حبشتكانات

أنا بس هسأل شوية أسئلة محيراني...و مش هحطلها إجابات حتى ، بس لو قدرتوا تفكروا فيها معايا يبقى كتّر خيركوا..

• المفروض إن الواحد ميسكتش على المحتل الأجنبي...فا مابالكوا بالمحتل الوطني بقى؟؟ اللي مننا فينا؟

• الشعب كله يطالب بالديمقراطية ، بس في نفس الوقت مبيحاسبش نفسه على ديكتاتوريته...تقريباً كده الناس فاكره إن الديكتاتورية هي ضرب و خلاص. نسينا فرض الرأي و عدم إحترام الرأي الآخر. نسينا رفض أي تعليق أو نقد من الخارج.

• إحنا إزاي عندنا بلاهة و بلادة و قلة تقدير للكلام اللي بنقولوا دا؟ إزاي مثلاً تروح تقول لشخص "ربنا هيحاسبك عاللي عملته" ؟ دا على أساس إن دا هيخلي ركبه تخبط في بعضها؟ دا على أساس إنك عارف أصلا يعني إيه ربنا هايحاسبه؟ و بتتكلم على أساس إن و يعني إيه إن شخص يستغل شهرته في إنه يالجملة دي عادي حاجة كده في الحياة اليومية؟

• هو يعني إيه "حرام" ؟ و "واجب شرعي" ؟ و يعني إيه إن شخص يستغل شهرته في إنه يتكلم كلام الناس تمشي عليه من غير ما ياخد باله إن دي مصيبة في حد ذاتها

• إحنا إزاي بقينا نتكلم في أطنان براميل بترول و ثروات تقدر بمليارات الدولارات بالسهولة دي؟ إزاي دي حاجة بقت بتضحك أوي كده؟ إنها لكارثة...

• إحنا إمتى ابتدينا منحسّش ببعض بالطريقة الصعبة دي؟ بزعل أوي أوي بجد لما حد يقوللي "أنا النهاردة حصل لي الموقف الفلاني و فهمت إنتي قصدك إيه" ياسلام؟

(أنا كمان بعمل كده عامةً...متفكروش إني بستعبط)

أسئلة كثيرة و الإجابة في جعبة الحياة :D

Pricelessness

Pricelessness

I love you Egypt!

Useless Information

Useless Information

1. A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
2. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
3. The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
4. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
5. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
6. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
7. The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
8. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple, and silver.\
9. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
10. If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
11. The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
12. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
13. Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.
14. By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
15. Sherlock Holmes NEVER said "Elementary, my dear Watson".
16. An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing.
17. The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
18. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them. Not to mention the other drawback to passing gas in such a confined space....
19. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave
20. The Guinness World Record for holding the most Guinness World Records is set by Ashrita Furman , who has broken over 303 official Guinness World records.

Actually, I find some of them very useful and fun =D
Source: Richardpettinger

Ease

Ease

Stolen from Noor =D