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Nature is so beautiful and the human desire to create meaning is so beautiful and rivers are such a peak embodiment of both!! looking at any significant river gives you so much history! just think about how the Mississippi river was a direct witness to the american industrial revolution! the history part is so fun but from that stems the symbolic meaning we assign to the things that sustain us, think how engrained the Nile is in Egyptian Mythology, the phrase 'crossing the Rubicon,' etc etc!!!! rivers are such an underrated CLASSIC piece of humanity and you can get nerdy and weird with it one of my favorites is the Colorado because of Fallout: New Vegas and I also love the Amazon because of it's geological history related to the Andes mountains <3. my favorite thing to do instead of paying attention in class is learn about rivers. rivers cuomo is cool too
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I love geography.
I love it when my friends know the capital to some country I have not thought about since my 8th grade geography bee. An obscure river? Yes, please. The tallest/shallowest point in a geographic region? Sure. It is broad enough where the difficulty can scale as low or as high as needed. It's my favorite category!
Mar 22, 2024
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I recently learned about the many types of water that exist, because I didn‘t know the difference.
Unfortunately I cannot let you in on the same excitement to learn about them, because I am German and can‘t be bothered to translate them to English. I especially like „Weiher“ which I only recently learned existed. If you speak German, enjoy:
- -Teich. Ein von Menschen künstlich angelegtes Stück Wasser.
- -Stausee. Ebenfalls künstlich von Menschen angelegt. Groß. Der Wasserstand lässt sich kontrollieren. Hat eine große Talsperre (Staumauer).
- -Pfütze. Kommt vom Regen.
- -Tümpel. So etwas wie eine große Pfütze, jedoch füllt sie sich wieder, sollte sie mal austrocknen.
- -Weiher. Tiefer als ein Tümpel und trocknet meist nicht aus.
- -See. Großes Stillgewässer.
- -Meer. Bekannt. Sehr groß.
Mar 8, 2025
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Lake Erie contains 2% of the Great Lakes' water but 50% of the fish, and Lake Superior 50% of the Great Lakes' water but 2% of the fish
The deepest point of Lake Erie is a higher altitude than the surface of Lake Ontario (I promise they aren't all about lakes)
At one point in 2008 the tallest woman in the world and the oldest person in the world lived in the same building in Indiana
"Oxy" is Greek for smart, meaning the word oxymoron is an oxymoron
Nobody knows what the p in pH stands for
Apr 19, 2024
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i have a little journal i use to write whatever i want in there☺️i think most of it can be boiled down to things that inspire me, but i put whatever i think to in there: quotes from what im reading, lists of things i like to think about or want to learn about. lists of names i like. lists of things i would like to do in minecraft. Great alternative to doomscrolling! just make lists. leaves me so much more fulfilled
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the best eggs i have ever eaten ☺️ i guess shuffle came through today
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i have 3 septendecillion cookies right now. love the idea of making my own idle game and choosing one specific thing to just slowly learn more and more about... but I havent decided what yet. you can tell the creators of cookie clicker had fun with it and did their research they've incorporated cookies from all over the world!!
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