Becca's Book of Randomness: The Sequel

Things I Learned in School

Six fingers is a dominant trait in genetics

Triangles are more stronger structurally than squares

A meme by definition is an element of culture that is passed from one individual to another by non-generic means

Everything is a remix

You can peel the top layer off a whiteboard eraser when it gets dirty to get a clean new eraser

Cells were first discovered (or at least named) by someone examining pieces of cork

A noun is any person, place, thing, or idea

Deutsch ist schwer aber auch einfach

You can use certain adjectives as nouns in German once you've defined what the object you're actually talking IS

In the US there's a certain way you can tell which highways are north-south or east-west. I forget what it is though

Segregation and slavery is bad why doesn't everyone just get along

"The Entire History of the World, I Guess" is gr8

The sky is blue because it absorbs all colors except for blue therefore it reflects blue light back and that's what our eyes see

If black is a combination of all colors and white is the absence of color, shouldn't we see white when we are born or die or when we just close out eyes?

Wait no because that's color not light. There's a difference apparently but textbooks seem to always combine them

Diagramming sentences is literally one of the most pointless things I've ever done in school

Life doesn't really start until you graduate high school, 18 years after you are born, and even then they don't really prepare you for life they teach you all the skills to let you find your strengths and weaknesses but don't actually teach you how to be an adult

There needs to be more females in the tech//STEM industry. It's totally dominated by men at the moment but women seem to be better at a lot of things in the industry

We always see the same part of the moon because of the way it's orbiting and we're rotating. The reason the shape of the moon changes is because of the position the sun is in our rotation and the position of the moon in its orbit around Earth

a squared + b squared = c squared but
sin(x)squared + cos(x)squared = 1 gets you basically the same thing

What's funny is that they're both Pythagorean. The first is the Pythagorean theorem and the other is the law is sines, which is one of the Pythagorean identities

I think that's all the random facts I have
Don't ask what this is I was bored on the bus
I secretly wanted to fill your brain with random school facts to better understand the existence of the universe