Middle Ground
Today is November 6th, 2024. And it’s a Totally Normal Day. Because it’s a day of nothingness, I wanted to write about things that I think we can all agree on.
Here are some Venn diagrams I just think make sense.
There’s a lot of things to love about the UK: Adele, Yorkshire pudding, Charles Dickens, Princess Diana, fudge, and the Greenwich Meridian.
The Greenwich Meridian is the imaginary vertical line that decides longitude and latitude lines. Also called the Prime Meridian, it splits the world into Western and Eastern hemispheres. I really love that Greenwich is the “centre of the earth” because it feels so arbitrary. The land isn’t particularly fertile, and there's no particular religious significance either. Greenwich was the location of the Royal Observatory, which published maps and other navigation tools used by sailors globally.
Some other contenders for the Prime Meridian were Paris, and Washington. Can you imagine the world map oriented with the U.S. as the middle?
The greatest sign of innovation in society was the marriage of the fork and spoon in creating the spork. The spork was created in the 1800s by Dr. Samuel W. Francis to make scooping ice cream easier. He didn't name the product though - it wasn't until almost a century later that Hyde W. Ballard patented the name "Spork." Fun fact: while today's sporks are usually plastic and a fast-food staple, the fancy Victorians actually had silver-plated sporks that they'd bust out at formal dinners, probably making their guests wonder if they were supposed to eat their beef wellington with the spoon end or the fork end!
End Note:
Everyone tell me your favourite venn diagram.
i like the merging one