Whitelist Recruitment - Share interesting quote or fun fact

I don't know who said it, but I like the quote:

"Make things as simple as possible. But not simpler." (probably some physicist or mathematician)

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
-Dr. Seuss

The speed of a computer mouse is measured in "Mickeys."

Figured I'd give you one of each to share more fun 😁

Pigeons can tell the difference between Picasso and Monet. A 1995 study shows that the birds can differentiate between the two artists.

"Even the smallest person can change the course of the future."

• John Ronald Reuel Tolkien "The Fellowship of the Ring"

The first song to be performed in space was "I look at the sky and think", sung by Ukrainian cosmonaut Pavlo Popovych on the Vostok-2 spacecraft specifically for Ukrainian spacecraft designer Serhiy Korolyov. It should be noted that even Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX, called him one of the best specialists in the industry

Less time separates humans from Tyrannosaurus rex than separated T. rex from Stegosaurus.

This fact always blows my mind. It goes to show just how long dinosaurs roamed the earth.

Ostrich eyes are larger than their heads: Ostrich eyes are about 5 centimeters in diameter, making them the largest among land animals, but their heads are relatively small.
It's one eye is 60g, but it's brain only 40g.

Max Payne: The past is a puzzle, like a broken mirror. As you piece it together, you cut yourself, your image keeps shifting. And you change with it. It could destroy you, drive you mad. It could set you free.

https://youtu.be/xoGLrXVmDHk

I remember seeing somewhere that Koalas can sleep the whole day away, I think up to 22 hours!

To echo the fun fact about the T. Rex and Stegosaurus, did you know that Cleopatra lived in an age closer to the moon landing than the construction of the great pyramid of Giza?

There is a bit of a joke in every joke

I'm here to kick ass and chew bubble gum. And I'm all out of gum.

I am here

The motto that keeps me up from comparing myself to others:
Eric Thomas's statement “Winners focus on winning, losers focus on winners"

Birds are immune to the effects of capsaicin (substance found in hot pepper for example).

A malaphor is an informal term for a mixture of two aphorisms, idioms, or cliches, also called an idiom blend.

My mother would always say "Don't look a gift horse in the ass"

Rabbits eat their feces. After eating them, they will digest it again like normal food. Rabbits have two kinds of droppings, little black round ones and softer black ones known as cecotropes. The cecotrope droppings are the ones that they eat and they do this so they can re-absorb any undigested nutrients from their food. This process is normally done once a day.

There are many male penguins that, in order to impress female ones, they gift them rocks. They then use it to make nests, I find it very funny and romantic

Here's an interesting one (from my point of view at least): bananas are berries, but strawberries aren’t! Botanically speaking, a berry is a fruit that comes from a single ovary and has multiple seeds, which makes bananas, cucumbers, and kiwis true berries. Strawberries, on the other hand, develop from a flower with multiple ovaries, so they don’t fit the berry definition. Fun twist on fruit classification, right?

two plus two is four minus one that's three quick maths

One of my favorite:
The chicken is currently the closest living relative to the T-Rex.

One of my favourites quotes actually cannot be tranlated to english to keep it's whole meaning. Thefore here goes the quote and below I will try to explain meaning and background:

• Milczące, chłodne drzemią struny harfy,
  kiedy nadejdzie wreszcie ich budziciel?
• Przybył już wczoraj, lecz niestety martwy.
  Czeka na serce, co wróci mu życie.>

This quote originates from Janusz Zajdel book "Paradise, the World in Orbit".
Book was published in 1980s in Poland, while this country was basically controlled by Soviet Union. Novel itself was science-fiction metaphor of current political situation and wide propaganda.
dIt's novel set in dystopian world, being one of humanking colonies which separated from Earth. People were under heavy surveillance to this point every spoken word was tracked by software which analysed for potential rebels. People developed "Koalang" which was way of indirect speaking when they were going to talk about system, rebellon and other illegal stuff. It had to be unique each time so does software will not learn it and recognize. Easy to translate example is: "I dreamt about blue angels last night" means "I was visited by the police last night." However some people were so good at Koalang that their speach was rather poetry. Above quote is short communication between to people. At first sight this looks like poetry, about music, life, maybe love. It even rhymes indirecttly and has 11 sylabs in each verse. In reality they are talking about device that might have crucial meaning in fight against their oppresors.

William Blake - "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend."
I feel that deeply right now in this point in life.

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts."
Churchill