Plants
The vast majority of plants, I’m now being told, are “flowering dicots” – 200,000 species of them, to be exact. This isn’t necessarily cause for panic. Like most people who don’t know the first thing about plants, I’m always caught off guard by new information like this. You can never prepare yourself enough when it comes to plants. I wouldn’t put anything past them. If these particular dicots have been flowering since long before humans came along, I’m sure they know what they’re doing. If it works for them, it works for me.
The Periodic Table of the Elements
It turns out Rhenium (Re) was discovered by two German scientists named Walter Noddack and Ida Tacke. Or is it the other way around? Also, it’s unclear whether they actually discovered the element or were just caught with it in the dark room by the janitor.
Our Magnificent Moon
I guess the moon is egg-shaped, and not a perfect sphere? Nobody tells me anything. Also, it just occurred to me that the word “oval”, or “egg-like”, is derived from ovum, which is Latin for egg. But then, plumbum album is Latin for “tin”, so don’t be jealous.
Ova and out!
