#Microblog Monday 420: What Did You Learn?
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This was going around the internet a few weeks ago, but I’m still learning from it. (For one, I am guilty of perpetuating the Phil Collins “In the Air Tonight” falsehood, most recently to the twins.)
I learned that mapmakers used to write “here are lions” on unknown places on maps. “The classical phrase used by medieval cartographers was HIC SVNT LEONES (literally, “here are lions”) when denoting unknown territories on maps.”
What did you learn?
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I learned that I didn’t know a lot of these misconceptions!
I knew some, but then decided that I don’t have nearly enough pop culture references. Fascinating to go through them all though! Also prompted me to donate to Wikipedia, which I’ve been meaning to do.
Like a, I realised I didn’t know a lot of the misconceptions. I also realised that I have learned an awful lot through watching the British series QI, which basically relies on the misconceptions to create the humour in the show.
But I liked this one, which I didn’t know. “True photographic memory (the ability to remember endless images, particularly pages or numbers, with such a high precision that the image mimics a photo) has never been demonstrated to exist in any individual.”