I have plenty of unfinished posts and important topics that deserve my attention, but instead I want to share a few items from “77 Facts That Sound Like Huge Lies But Are Actually Completely True,” by Dave Stopera at BuzzFeed. Most of the ones I picked deal with the passage of time, and our oft-skewed perception of it. The links are in the original, but I added a picture or two.

5. The name Jessica was created by Shakespeare in the play Merchant of Venice.

8. Cleopatra lived closer to the invention of the iPhone than she did to the building of the Great Pyramid.

20. Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire.

21. Not once in the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme does it mention that he’s an egg. Continue reading →