WTF?! (Strange But True Facts)

WomenRfromVenus said:
Facts&Studies about blue eyes

·It is estimated that only 8% of the world has blue eyes.

·blue-eyed red heads are super rare. Blue eyes and red hair form the rarest combo on Earth. (My mamaw is red w/blue eyes)

·studies have linked blue eyes with strategic thinking. Also slower reaction times and reflexes (def true with me :p)

·blue eyes were the result of a mutation

·blue eyed people are more sensitive to light. B.c. of the lack of melanin in their irises. Which is used to shield from intensive or fluorescent lighting.
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Irises are made up of three layers, a thin top and back layer, with a spongy layer in between called the stroma. Any layer can have pigmentation in it. There are a few different colors of pigment that come into play. Most people have either dark brown or yellow pigment in at least one of these layers. The combination of yellow and brown go into making brown and amber-colored eyes. Brown-eyed people have these pigments are in each layer of the iris, giving the eye a strong brown color.

Blue and grey eyes, on the other hand, only have dark brown pigment on the back layer of the eye. The stroma has no pigment, but it does have small particles suspended in it. These particles give rise to the Tyndall Effect. The small particles in the eye scatter blue light. As light enters the eye, the blue wavelengths are scattered - some of them back towards the outside of the eye. The dark background absorbs most of the rest of light. (If the background of the eye were white, or were lit from within, more light would stream through, the blue wavelengths would be scattered out, and the eyes would look yellow.) Babies can often have blue eyes for a few days or months after birth, because the melanin - the darkening pigment of the eyes - has not fully developed in the stroma.

Even if the overall color of the eye doesn't change, babies and young children tend to have more intensely blue eyes than adults. As people age, the particles in the stroma get bigger, and scatter white light. Add a layer of white is added to the blue, it comes to look more grey. People can see this kind of pigmentation in weather. A dry sky is made up of tiny particles that scatter blue light and make the sky look blue. As clouds start to form water molecules fill the air, and the color of the sky changes to a whitish grey.
 
SexyAsianBitch said:
Wang Enlin, A Chinese farmer quit primary school and spent 16 years studying law to sue a chemical company for polluting his village. He did not have money to buy the books, so he paid the bookstore bags of corn in return for letting him study in the bookstore. He wrote all his notes by hand and learned enough from the law books and dictionary to win the court case in 2017
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Now that's dedication and sheer determination!
 
According to Box Office Mojo (movie earning tracking site), the nine nominees for Best Picture at this year's Academy Awards have combined to make less money domestically than Star Wars: The Last Jedi.

As of today, the Best Picture nominees have combined to make $609 million thus far, while Star Wars is sitting at $611 million.
 
WomenRfromVenus said:
@TallulahBlue being from the South..I thought it might interest you.

Southern dialects originated in large part from a mix of immigrants from the British Isles, who moved to the American South in the 17th and 18th centuries, and the creole or post-creole speech of African slaves.

-I think its also amazing how many Southern accents there are. That greatly differ from State to State. Also some diff versions even within the States. I can verify that all Kentucky accents are not the same. Accents from the Eastern part of the State, are way heavier with a Southern drawal vs Western side. Also people from places like Lexington. Can tend to have an accent mixed with Southern&City.
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Preach it, Venus! That is something that many people who aren't from the South don't realize. There is such a diversity in the Southern accent. You mention Kentucky and the difference in the accents there, and Louisiana is just the same.

Louisiana Creole is an actual language, and not one I speak particularly well. But because I grew up around so many people who did speak it (most as a secondary language), my accent is a distinct Creole accent (not language.) Having moved to the midwest to go to college, a few things really struck me. Although they mean well, people tend to talk about how much they love a Southern accent, but they are fairly ignorant in the diversity of the accents. And they can't fathom how somebody with as thick as an accent as me can actually have trouble understanding some of the other various accents, especially in my own state. So I'm glad you wrote this and tagged me, thank you!

Now if we can just get otherwise well meaning people to actually take us seriously despite our accents, we will be getting somewhere. Intelligence can somewhat be measured by the way people formulate their words, but not by the accent they use when doing so. We aren't all hillbilly, backwoods hicks just because we have a drawl and often say y'all!

Love your post, thank you!
 
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