✿ pretty much just stuff i saw on the internet that made me go "wow, that's cool!"

my start date: july 13rd, 2018 | really fun facts are marked with ★

• 0713 - Hello Kitty's boyfriend is actually also a girl in disguise, making him a he/him lesbian. :)(source: tumblr) ★
• 0715 - Alan Turing committed suicide with an apple laced with cyanide. Steve Jobs viewed him as the inventor of modern computer and named his company Apple. That's why their logo is an apple with a bite taken out of it. x
• 0718 - Dolphins(and whales) were actually wolf-like creatures that lived on land but due to the shortage of food they went into the water
• 0720 - The word "penitentiary" comes from the word "penitent" which means: "feeling or showing sorrow and regret for having done wrong" x
• 0722 - redheads cannot really take anesthesics because they can suffer from organ failure or any other side effects (source: q eye)
• 0819 - When Japanese is written vertically, text isn’t underlined, it’s sidelined, with a “sideline,” bousen 傍線. (source: tumblr)

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• 0811 - The Word "capisce" that means "got it?" is originally from italian and I found out that because I was watching The Godfather Part II

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• 0712 - Apparently the japanese don't bite their apples they always cut them?? And it's weird if you eat them like that in Japan?? (source: tiktok)
• 0713 - KRYPTONITE IS NOT THE THING THAT GAVE SUPERMAN POWERS IT IS THE THING THAT TAKES THEM AWAY???? I JUST GOOGLED RANDOMLY BUT I AM SURPRISED
• 0714 - caro told me that commercially produced sex dolls apparently have their origin in germany

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• 1204 - a monopsony is like a monopoly but there is only one buyer (source: uni readings)
• 1215 - dreyfus affaire (source: jeanne)

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• 0101 - stray dogs in oman are called wadi dogs because they hang out a lot at water collection points i.e. wadi (source: ciara)