Friday, January 21, 2022

Things I learned lately 21 January

  • Lagrange points are places in relation to a planet and the sun where the forces acting upon an object are in perfect balance. They're like stable parking spaces for objects in space. The L4 and L5 Lagrange points of Jupiter host thousands of asteroids, called trojans.

  • Allowing drivers to turn right on a red light leads to a 69% increase in crashes, many of which involve pedestrians. 
  • There are already 10 countries in the world whose electricity comes from 97 to 100% renewable sources. Progress.
  • Hormone-free eggs is a meaningless label, because hormones aren't used in egg producing chickens.
  • Omega-3 eggs. Yeah, the chickens ate feed containing Omega-3, but that doesn't mean Omega-3 made it into the eggs.
  • Cage free eggs. Meaningless. The chickens don't typically live in cages. They live in giant, overcrowded barns and likely never go outside.
  • Free range doesn't have a strict legal definition. If a chicken had a hole to the outside that they could pop their head into, they could be classified as free range.
  • Eggplants are berries.
  • Plus sized models are often just regular models wearing fat suits so that their faces and necks are still skinny.

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