Turns out I mistook what “factoid” means. Thanks for correcting me.

This [Edit: factoid] becomes even more interesting when you learn that artificial vanilla aroma is made from wood.

Me when I’m trying to sleep.

Starve, drown, freeze to death and get eaten by predators.

“whirlpool on the coast of Norway […] appointed by the King of Denmark […] as smooth as any other part of the German ocean”

This sounds very badly hallucinated. Did the words and territories change since 1847?

Relevant xkcd:

if we flatten a bug, the end result is slightly abstract but we can still identify the bug and features

I believe that you’re thinking of squishing a bug. But that’s a very lossy projection. In its 2D state you only look at the topmost portion of the bug, which is recognizable. But you’re choosing to ignore the infinitely many points that make up all the other layers of the bug. If you had to put them somewhere, too, the resulting picture would be very hard to make sense of.

Well, if you map the Mona Lisa onto a Hilbert curve and untangle the curve, you get a long sequence of random blotches of color. So I guess the horse won’t be recognizable in 2D.

You can define Hilbert Curves that map n dimensions on to n−1 dimensions.

Interesting fun (?) fact: In Germany you cannot bury a pet that’s been put down by a vet. That’s because the medication used to kill the pet isn’t supposed to leech into the surface water.

For real, this thing must sound like a chopper when it flies (those are wings, right?)