Reminds me of another post the other day about how the Appalachian mountains are older than trees. (And Saturn's rings)
Geological time scales really are something else.
this post was submitted on 13 Jul 2024
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Oh, wow. Two cool factoids in one thread.
Facts, rather. Factoids are things commonly believed to be true, but are not.
Factoid works. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/factoid
You might be thinking of alternative fact, lie, wives tale, myth, fallacy, falsity, fiction, fib... or factoid.
Thanks for this factoid.
Ah, interesting distinction. Thanks for clarifying.
Don't believe him!
I can't tell if this is a serious comment or if you are just trolling the lyrics to Country Roads
Haha. Yeah in that post people were mentioning how they didn't realise the song lyrics were quite literal and not just a saying.
So not just "older than the trees" like in the song but "older than trees... anywhere"
Couldn’t bees like still do their thing though?
Spiders were around long before screen doors, and they still figured out how to make webs on mine.