Love these threads.
Punctured lung - air escapes from the lung filling the chest cavity which stops lung from inflating, so it’s more like 2 balloons one inside another in a cage and the inner one gets a hole and that inflates the outer one but the cage means you can’t also inflate the inner one and trying to merely means the air passes into the outer one via the hole anyway. When you see on film/tv dramas them stabbing the patient that’s to remove the air from the 2nd outer balloon (the chest cavity) creating space to re-inflate the inner balloon (lung) to some degree until the puncture heals.
The double knotted bows - how the hell are you making the first bows? Because I do them properly. Tie, loop, circle and through to create second loop not bunny ears!
The maps thing is fascinating for those interest I highly recommend you look up “upside down” maps with the hemispheres switched, maps to correct scale too - Africa is FAR bigger than you’d believe and Uk Teeny! When you put that in socio-political context it becomes even more astounding that we were able to oppress so much of it! Apparently there are vast areas that no human has ever been to still.
My usual comment on this type of thread is my brothers epiphany when as a teen he was astonished to learn how close Cuba is to the USA and how that helped him understand why the Cuban midsole crisis WAS a crisis! The conversation also led to the proximity of Ussr (conversation was had in the 80’s) to Alaska and that Alaska was sold to USA by Russia.
Is Australia really almost as big as USA? That surprises me.
Aubergines have got nicotine in them. that’s new info to me!
@Shell4429 - I love watching USA shows and working out the “translations” can be especially tricky with meds, eg Advil is ibuprofen but often the doses and mixes with other meds vary and even more surprisingly the reasons are often cultural rather than medically based.