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Comment on FACT: a tulip was once the world’s most expensive flower by isabelle

isabelle — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 08:32:29 +0000

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Comment on FACT: in the US a tomato is legally a vegetable for tax reasons by Adrienne

Adrienne — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 03:20:59 +0000

I assume the poison myth came about because the tomato is in the nightshade family of plants.

Comment on FACT: movie trailers originally trailed behind the movie by Proform Pete

Proform Pete — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 18:04:06 +0000

Why did they make that illegal? I would have loved to watch some crappy short film before the real movie. Man, I wish I could go back in time to the golden age of cinema. When movies had original ideas and weren't just remakes and sequels.

Comment on The History of Human Height by marubashi

marubashi — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 19:16:43 +0000

Have a look at web sites describing the heights of early homo sapiens such as Heidelberg man or Cro-Magnon. Apparently, the males of these species were reliably 6+ footers and in some populations were closer to 7 feet tall. They were also robustly built. It is apparently only in the last few decades that the variety in our diets has approached that of our 'primitive' ancestors again, and we have started to grow to heights that were apparently normal for our stone age ancestors…

Comment on We Eat Beetles On A Daily Basis by dailyhealthblitz

dailyhealthblitz — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 00:35:32 +0000

I think I am gonna hurl!!!!!!!

Comment on FACT: Police in airplanes can hand out speeding tickets by Hira

Hira — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 22:37:24 +0000

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Comment on The History of Human Height by Trey

Trey — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 06:28:44 +0000

Actually, connecting the facts in this and previous articles, it's very possible that Goliath was not "10 feet tall." The Bible doesn't use that measurement system but the anthropic units of cubits and spans. Therefore if people were, in general, shorter than we are today then "6 cubits and a span" would be different measurement in feet and inches. The modern cubit is about 18 inches. But if the Hebrews were near 5 feet tall, it would only make Goliath just over 8 feet.

To add to the confusion, it seems that Hebrews, Romans, and Egyptian had different standards and definitions of the word "cubit." Therefore when the Hebrew bible was converted into Greek during the Helenistic period, the measurements too might have been converted to met the different understanding of "cubit." In some English dynamic translations (ex. New International Version & New Living Translation), the translator do a similar thing by converting cubits to feet measurements for English readers. This seems to point to the were the idea that Goliath was "ten feet tall" stems from… bad presumptions of the translator; not a problem with the actual Bible text.