I was having a conversation with someone recently and shared some random knowledge that pertained to the topic at hand, and their response was like, wait, what? Why is that something you even know?
I guess I've lived enough years and adventured through so many different iterations of my life at this point that I've acquired quite a wide variety of wisdom(?). Yet not everyone I know now has the complete history of all the different things I've done over the years. It's been a wild ride. So I surprise folks sometimes. Lol.
I thought I'd share some of it here. This is a little exercise in honoring all the parts of me and my life so far. For fun but you never know, you might just learn something too.
Here we go:
Plant deciduous trees on the south and west side of your home so that in the summer the leaves will shade your house keeping it cooler but in winter will lose their leaves letting the sunshine through to warm up your house.
Lay your chopsticks on the side or rim of your bowl of rice or noodles but do not stick them directly down standing up at attention because in Japan this is only done as part of funeral rituals.
Use the word Roma not "gypsy" to describe the peoples whose ancestors migrated from northern India (white people thought they were from Egypt, unfortunately, misnaming has been a long held tradition of conquering/colonial types).
Many game show audiences are actually paid to be there as part of a fundraiser for their school, group, club, team, etc.
The word preservative in Czech (prezervativ) and in French (préservatif) mean the same thing, but something entirely different in English, proceed with caution.
Tim Burton (of Beetlejuice, Nightmare Before Christmas, Edward Scissorhands fame) was born and raised in the same town as me.
One of the best treatments for poison oak grows right next to it or near it (California mugwort ~ Artemisia douglasiana).
The neuroplasticity of our brains means that are able to adapt and change old thought patterns, trauma responses, habits, and what we know (or don't know) throughout our entire lives.
The process to make the lemonade at Hot Dog on a Stick in food courts in malls across the western US is called stomping.
The fog in San Francisco has a name, Karl, and you can follow him on instagram: @karlthefog.
Periwinkle colored Borage flowers are gorgeous and taste a bit like cucumber, great on salads!
There is now a marijuana smoking lounge at the California State Fair this year. No, I have not tried it out.
Westies developed strong and loud barking skills to help notify their humans that they were stuck in a hole and needed help while hunting rodents and varmints.
The unicorn is Scotland's national animal.
The UC Santa Barbera mascot is The Gaucho, an Argentinian Cowboy, but it's not based on actual cowboys, but on a role played by actor Douglas Fairbanks in a movie from the 1920's.
There are 1.4 billion insects for each human on earth (as mentioned in last week's post).
The original Santa Claus is based on St. Nicholas, who was from an area now part of Turkey, but used to be part of Greece.
During the Gold Rush (in California, 1849 and after) the current town of Fiddletown (population 211 in 2020) had the second largest Chinese community outside of San Francisco.
Bees pollinate approximately a third of the food we eat. Save the bees.
The pointer thingie you use with a Ouija board is called a planchette.
Well, that does it for this week. Hope you've enjoyed these totally random bits of information that take up space in my head and maybe you even learned something new.
Have a great week!
Indi
#3 is hilarious! Needed a laugh today!