A funny fact about the Canary Islands is that there are no canaries there, despite the name. Yet funnily enough, the same holds true for the Virgin Islands, there are no canaries there either.
My dad had cancer and thought he was in remission when his dogs kept insisting on sleeping on his stomach, my mom said that she was worried the cancer had returned. Unfortunately she was right. His next scans showed that the tumors had returned right in the same spot the dogs were laying. He passed away 6 months later, we were able to set it up for him to be at home and the dogs were there the whole time.
@@Hithere-ek4qt I mean, you might have a point (nah), but if you tell people in the RU-vid comment section to "get a life" you might want to take a hard look in the mirror.
Fun fact about the Canary Islands: people from that island chain were the ones who set up the first residential community in what is now my birthplace and hometown, San Antonio, TX! In fact, we've got a preserved version of that first settlement as a downtown tourist attraction called "La Villita", and it's why some parts of downtown have a Spanish colonial feel to them.
True, but as always with American states Native Indians inhabited the area before the European usurpers turned up, in the case of San Antonio I believe they were Payaya Indians.
Funnier fact: Y’all in S.A. have an elementary school named after my great-grandpappy, who built the first one-room schoolhouse thereabouts. (Fully racially integrated it was, too!)
i actually knew about that one with the walls of benin, one of those random facts you pick up but when the time comes to flex your knowledge you can never remember the name and i always end up saying walls of benadryl
They aren’t native because they aren’t permanent residents and Antarctica isn’t a nation and has no laws on how they define citizenship. Also to be considered ‘native’ a species must have become a part of the ecosystem via a natural process. So humans can’t be considered native by any current working definition. And no, I’m not fun at parties. No one invites me because I’m a nerd :((
@@Tapio86 Who told you that? It's general meaning is just "ill", and people rarely use it to meant vomit without clarifying it. And Domingo does mean Sunday, but you don't necessarily translate names.
One of my favorite trivia questions is “Which continent has the most mosquitos per capita?” The answer, of course, is Antarctica because there are so few humans there, but no one ever guesses that.
@@rupeshkanth Hmmm, you are correct. I guess I need to research better the "trivia" I hear. Although it's more accurate to say that there are no NATIVE mosquitos in Antarctica. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-RukuQ8gjZ2E.html
Alan has perfectly encapsulated British history. It's amusing that we don't know about any human achievements that didn't take place in Europe. It's a small tragedy if we destroyed it.
And the Ancient Astronauts theory first came about as way for Europeans to explain how Non-European cultures could have been building monuments like the Great Pyramids while Europeans were still living in huts.
That one seems kind of dubious to me. There aren’t really any photos of this wall or any significant ruins. Seems like maybe an archeologist with a very ambitious theory. I can’t imagine the British investing huge time and effort to completely dismantle thousands of miles of earthworks, makes no sense.
@@ibux You don't think it's even a tiny bit of a stretch that there were supposedly NINE THOUSAND MILES of walls in Nigeria and you've never heard of them or seen them because supposedly the British went around systematically and utterly destroying them all entirely into nothing but dust for no reason?
@@twelvecatsinatrenchcoat first of all, you've never heard of something until you hear of it, doesn't mean it never existed. Secondly, the british have a history of destroying stuff there's not always a reason they just do it cos they can. Whether you believer or not its been proven and the history is there, fight with your keyboard
My cat told me one of my surgical wounds was infected. She just kept bunting my side, over and over. Normally she was very careful around the wounds, but this time she just wouldn't stop. So, I went to the doctor, who ordered a swab and what do you know? An infection was brewing.
I had a similar experience with my friends' Huskies.. the female became very protective of me, guarding me from her boisterous brother. I hope you're ok now?
Actually 11 babies have been born in Antarctica...the first in 1978. It all started as a result of a feud between Chile and Argentina...both were trying to claim primacy IN Antarctica..and concluded that having citizens BORN THERE would strengthen their case. The first was born to an Argentinian military captain and his wife.. (she was sent to join him there when 7 months pregnant) Chile responded..Argentina responded and so on... So..January 7, 1978 the birth of Emilio Marcos Palma...first native human " Antarctican " (Hmm..there must be a better word available...lol) All 11 survived BTW.
Yep, just look to the lead-in. Bi, tri, quad, quint. A quadrillion is the next step up from trillion. And then a quintillion is a thousand quadrillions. Though I'm still not sure why a million is called a million. I have no idea what the root is.
@@chrismanuel9768 That's because you don't understand that the American (actually French) "short-form" number system is -mucked up and wrong!- Sorry, "different" from the rest of the English-speaking world and the whole of Europe ;-) So, brace yourself for a tiny bit of history: the original ("long-form") mathematical/scientific system was based on powers of a million. M=mono in the context (not really but it's easier to understand if we take it as that) =1 power of a million 1,000,000; Bi=2 powers billion= 1,000,000,000,000; tri=3 powers of a million 1,000,000, 000,000, 000,000. The number that the Americas call a billion is in fact a milliard, and some European languages still use it or its translated equivalent. Why does the whole world now use the "short-form" number system? Money! Of course, everything comes down to money, but in this instance the USA dominance of the financial markets in the mid-20th-century, just at the time that economies for the first time in human history routinely reported normal figures (not just entire GDPs) reaching into 10^9+, meant that we in Europe started hearing reports of budgets allocating "billions of dollars" or companies being worth that much. On our news they used to repeatedly translate that to "thousands of millions actually" but eventually everyone got to understand that *in financial matters* a billion is a milliard in the rest of human endeavour. Throughout my childhood we were more and more having to ask or confirm in conversation weather a person was talking "American billions", and in science matters it was still assumed that "real" counting was being used and "financial billions" were different and of no interest. I remember vividly an episode of The Sky At Night when Patrick Moore was talking to his guest a famous American astronomer who was describing a point of interest as "x billion of light years away" and Sir Patrick had to correct him "you mean thousands of millions", "oh yes" came the polite reply! It wasn't until the late 80s in my experience that everyone in the scientific and "grammar pedant" communities gave up and accepted that "financial" counting, because it had been in common use in every stock exchange and thus every newspaper report, was now the "new normal." So now young people in various languages that don't learn English by default as a second language, are confused why they have *and use* two words for 10^9: milliard and billion! Nobody truly understands why the Americas went a different way with such a basic mathematical notation that shouldn't change between languages, other than the "conspiracy theory" that it was the system (apparently) that the French used and they wanted to be more friendly to the French than the English in a large part of the 1800s: "well the English do it like this, so let us do it differently!" (If you give credence to that sort of old story -- the trouble is that type of story is often wrong, like "why the Americas changed the spelling of various English words" when it wasn't them it was us! But that's a different story;-)
Dogs and cats can also smell blood clots. Both smelled something in my leg that disturbed them. I went to the doctor and found I had a mass. It took 15 months to clear. Thanks to my dog and cat.
Stephen once called showed a picture of the Washington Monument and called it Grant's Tomb. I couldn't sleep that night! I never expected such blatant fallibility out of him. I still shudder when I think of it!
There was a photo from central Europe they put up while talking about Yellowstone too, not explicitly identified but obviously implied, and easily recognizable as not Yellowstone...
"La Gomera's inhabitants have an ancient way of communicating across deep ravines by means of a whistled speech called Silbo Gomero, which can be heard two miles away. This whistled language is indigenous to the island, and its existence has been documented since Roman times. Invented by the original inhabitants of the island, the Guanches, Silbo Gomero was adopted by the Spanish settlers in the 16th century and survived after the Guanches were entirely assimilated. When it was threatened with extinction at the dawn of the 21st century, the local government required all children to learn it in school. Marcial Morera, a linguist at the University of La Laguna, has said that the study of silbo may help understand how languages are formed."
There's Albatross island off New Zealand, though I haven't looked it up, I just saw it mentioned in a RU-vid video. But how come no one made any Clanger jokes in the last clip? Alan dropped a Major Clanger there!
Stephen, you surprise me. A penguin is an animal, it is larger than a midge by far, and it is native to Antarctica. Where they spend most of their time is irrelevant, they are still native to the land, having hatched there. I spend most of my time in Wisconsin, but I am and shall always be a native of Minnesota, its neighbor to the west.
Micronesia, Narn Modal, Ponphe, has a series of hexagonal basalt structures, brought from afar, which reportedly weigh some 600 000 000 tonnes. Engravings are identified as similar to the natives of Islands north of Japan.
On the island of Phonpei in the, FSM are some 260 million tons of basalt hexagonal collumes, built into a city and harbour. They came from other islands.
Recently an Englishman enquired of an Edo gentleman, as to what purpose such a system of walls might serve. Try farming amongst Elephants? He answered.
Not really, it's never been a single structure, it would be too like saying a system of manufactured fields stitched together by human-planted hedgerows is a "structure" But someone will have a good argument for the opposite I suppose...
Wrong... I recognised immediately the Lagomera whistle translation error... "It's not John milked the goats" it is "Just got a blinkin' BBC copyright claim over imitating 'The Clangers' in the '70's.. Heck, Blue String Pudding people, that's cruel"..... :-)
