This despite society’s frequent demand to “Know your ABCs”.

Ah well, good to hear that at least, and never mind then.

“Did you try erasing everything from the beginning and letting it reemerge again?”

You mean this one, right? But it looks so cute <3

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelphicos_quadrivirgatum

I don’t remember the details, but wasn’t there a massive genetic bottleneck event in early (modern?) human prehistory?

Could be fun if it didn’t happen and we were more genetically diverse!

Most sensible answer yet (maybe not the most exciting one though ;) )

Sorry you got sick!

First on a big container ship, then on a midsize cruise ship, then on a riverboat, then on a two-person inflatable paddle boat. When I finally clung to a pool noodle, I realized it was time to get rid of the tattoo and return to the shore.

Number 5 made me rethink my life, get an anchor tattoo and turn to the sea.

I bet OP invented this mysterious friend just to get some good recommendations!

Starch is the nourishing part in a lot of our staple foods (potatos, cereals etc.) and easily digestible. Cellulose is a major component of wood (and cotton and paper) and of what we call “fiber” in our food, the stuff we cannot digest.

Both starch and cellulose are long, sometimes interlinked chains of glucose molecules. The only difference is at which corner of each glucose molecule the next is attached.

Another one about cheese: The cheese blocks you can get at the super market are reasonably small-portioned food items. The moon is a celestial body revolving around the Earth at a distance of around 250,000 miles, yet both are made from the same material. Makes you think.

[English teachers, frantically trying to squeeze another seven exceptions to the exception to the exception to a pronunciation rule into a simple mnemonic rhyme] Yeah, you tell’em!

Yeah, everybody please respect the honor system and use decimal for numbers up to ten, binary for numbers up to one.

If you absolutely have to count to e.g. 20 in decimal, just count to ten twice.

Yeah, I liked how well spoken and well reasoned it was; they politely said something they could have said in a much more acerbic way.

(Not saying I agree with them either.)

Whoah! There is a star constellation Berenice’s Hair*, and suddenly it’s connected to a name I know!

*just a line with an angle

Probably no use for you, but interesting nonetheless: In Bavaria, Germany, Veronika is shortened to “Vroni”, with the v pronounced as an f and with the o spoken long (so, not short like in Ronnie).

Technically correct, the best kind of correct.

Yeah, but… were they clean?

insert meme

You use the English word because you’re a pretentious idiot

I use the English word because I forgot

We are not the same

“Sorry, I forgot the English, Finnish and Arabic word. I can offer you Urdu, Basque and Polish, if you’re interested.”