"Nobody can MAKE you feel anything, YOU control your feelings" oversimplifies human emotional response and overlooks the impact of conditioning and coercion – often in the service of a fantasy that we can "control" our feelings if we just "try hard enough." (@DrDoyleSays)
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
The French occupied the Netherlands in 1811 and forced the Dutch to give surnames. They didn’t use them, so made up Dodeman (dead man), Niemand (nobody), Tabaksblatt (cigarette paper) etc.
Apparently, when the French took a census of the Dutch in 1811 many didn't have last names so they made them up, thinking it was temporary, but some of them are quite common today... Some are quite normal like Pereboom (pear tree) or Lachman.
I was today years old when I found out "newspaper" means North, east, west, south, past and present. (@0xleegenz)
No. (@MerriamWebster)
Was it Notices Entertainment Weather & Sport = NEWS? (@flowergirl_lon)
Never. (@MerriamWebster)
1,000-year-old Viking church built without a single nail is mind-blowing. (@wakenminds)
They always say “built without a single nail”, but that’s the least interesting thing about this church. Guys, every barn frame in America was built without a single nail. They’re pegged together. It’s not a miracle or anything. (@nealjclark1)
Did you know the roof of the Royal Albert Hall is not actually attached to the rest of the building – its enormous weight is all that holds it in place without any bolts or screws. (@The_East_End)
The full set is here, in my book What You Know that Ain't So.
More here, and links to the rest.
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