Yes, it’s from a book called “Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader” and that book was resting on a closed toilet seat in a nation that only kind of uses the metric system in certain situations… however, you’d be surprised how much you can learn after a single visit to any local fast-food joint!

  • brem@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    221·
    22 hours ago

    Sort of, yeah, Earth is a bit wider around the equatorial axis than around the polar one.

    Thanks for explaining that a fucking ball is easier to squeeze at it’s widest part, genius.

    • MartianSands@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      141·
      21 hours ago

      What are you talking about? That isn’t what they said, and a ball doesn’t have a widest point. That’s more or less the definition of a ball.

      The distance between the two poles is smaller than the distance from one side to the other following the equator. The earth isn’t quite a ball, it’s a bit squashed because of way it spins

      • brem@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        29·
        21 hours ago

        Okay, a ball is equally wide but sometimes it gets squeezed and becomes tallish