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| |TIL that in "understand", "under" means "to be part of" or "to be surrounded by" as for example when you say "under those circumstances". So, to "understand" something, is to stand in the midst of it. And "explain" literally means to flatten, plain out X. So you can "be part of" or "be surrounded by" X once you "understand".| | | |TIL that in "understand", "under" means "to be part of" or "to be surrounded by" as for example when you say "under those circumstances". So, to "understand" something, is to stand in the midst of it. And "explain" literally means to flatten, plain out X. So you can "be part of" or "be surrounded by" X once you "understand".| | |
| |TIL Jamestown governor John Ratcliffe, the villain in “Pocahontas,” died horrifically in real life. After being tricked, ambushed & captured, women removed his skin with mussel shells and tossed the pieces into a fire as he watched. They skinned his face last, and burned him at the stake.|[[:information:funfacts:funfacts:children_stories:pocahontas|Source]]| | |TIL Jamestown governor John Ratcliffe, the villain in “Pocahontas,” died horrifically in real life. After being tricked, ambushed & captured, women removed his skin with mussel shells and tossed the pieces into a fire as he watched. They skinned his face last, and burned him at the stake.|[[:information:funfacts:funfacts:children_stories:pocahontas|Source]]| |
| | |TIL: Euler's work touched upon so many fields that in an effort to avoid naming everything after Euler, many discoveries are attributed to the first person to have proved them after Euler.|[[wp>List_of_things_named_after_Leonhard_Euler|]]| |
| | |TIL the king of Thailand, Rama X, whose birth name was Vajiralongkorn Borommachakkrayadisonsantatiwong Thewetthamrongsuboriban Aphikhunuprakanmahittaladunladet Phumiphonnaretwarangkun Kittisirisombunsawangkhawat Borommakhattiyaratchakuman|[[wp>Vajiralongkorn|Source]]| |
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