I agree. It was the only way I saw to solve it. It’s a flawed “surprising fact.”

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So do chimps and gorillas. I think it's our 2nd chromosome that is the fused version of 2 ancestral ape chromosomes, even has vestigial telomeres in the middle of it.

Well some crabs have over 200 chr. Some plants over 1,000.
I think it’s just funny that a potato has just one more pair.

What about Mr Potato Head?

I don’t know. Probably 46.5 chromosomes. He’s not all finished.

Potato genetics are surprisingly complex
https://www.pnas.org/content/114/46/E9999

Gee, you guys are picky. I consider regular ferry services to be part of normal car travel (i.e. when I drive from Paris to Calais, take the ferry to Dover, and drive on to London, I would moste definitely say I traveled from Paris to London by car.) There is a regular ferry service from Kaliningrad to St. Petersburg, and there is regular ferry service from Russia to Japan. So my point stands, nitpickers.

But it’s no different than saying you can drive from the USA to Switzerland only crossing one country. Start driving in USA, ferry to France, drive through France to Switzerland.

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A day on Venus is longer than a year.

OK. What's the timetable of the ferry service from the US to France?

Ferry… freighter… what’s the difference? 😁

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Not on Venus. ;)

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Each day is what you make of it so make it the best day possible.

That’s because you’d combust immediately;)

Anyhow, you know what I meant :)

You wouldn't combust, because of the lack of oxygen. Some things would melt.

Excellent point. Didn’t think about that. Doh

https://www.investopedia.com/...mies/#17-netherlands

Holland is the second largest agricultural exporter in the world. With something like 15 million people and hardly any land. The GDP of South Korea is almost the same as Russia.

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They constantly try to escape from the darkness outside and within
Dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good T.S. Eliot

Many people know that Babe Ruth led the AL in home runs 12 times, batting average one year, and ERA one year.

He also stole home 10 times during his career.

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"Human existence is based upon two pillars: Compassion and knowledge. Compassion without knowledge is ineffective; Knowledge without compassion is inhuman." Victor Weisskopf.

Thanks! I was on a call yesterday with a group of friends who consider themselves very knowledgeable about US politics and history. I trotted out your fact and was met with a chorus of utter disbelief and demands for proof. Was happy to supply it.

For any prime number greater than 3, p^2-1 is a multiple of 3 (even of 24 actually).

I know super useful stuff.

The sum of the whole numbers from 1 thru 10, is 55

good for bets with kids

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Be Prepared-- Strike Swiftly -- Who Dares Wins- Without warning-"it will be hard. I can do it"

The legend is that Gauss gave a proof as a 7 year old in the general case (1+…+n = n(n+1)/2)…when the school teacher asked the kids to sum all first 100 integers to have some respite.

He wrote

1+…+n = Sn
n+…+1 = Sn
And realized you can sum the n terms of the two sums in pairs and get

(n+1)+…(n+1) = 2Sn
So
n(n+1) = 2Sn and Sn = n(n+1)/2

Yes, and he got spanked for it, because he spoiled the teacher's quiet time. Can't be easy to be a genius.

So, you wouldn't burst into flame, but you'd just become charcoal?

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We could send windy and test it, but he's full of air, so he'd likely combust.