I never cease to be surprised with learning something I know/knew nothing about...
Here's today's surprise. We were discussing what our kids did for a living, and found that our neighbors' daughter and son-in-law are with the US diplomatic service, and live in Chad. (Chad = blank look for me) so on to the CIA Factbook. On just one subject, I learned something that I had never thought about before. The median age... Half of the population older, half younger than:
18... in Chad
From there, some more discoveries... Median age for
USA
Russia
China
Afghanistan
Panama
Cuba
Monaco
Mexico
Japan
Israel
Bosnia
Bulgaria
India
Haiti
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2177.html#150
Many surprises... as in country populations decimated by WWII etc and the effect on median age. Not as expected.
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No major point to be made, except that as I look at the world it helps to understand the "whys" of many international situations.
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So that's just one of the things I didn't know:
One more... recently learned.
For my whole life, up until recently, have been eating bananas, by breaking off at the stem and peeling from that end. Monkeys are smarter than me. They peel the banana from the bottom ... easier, and avoiding the stringy things.
Never too old to learn.
Had any recent AHA! moments?
Here's today's surprise. We were discussing what our kids did for a living, and found that our neighbors' daughter and son-in-law are with the US diplomatic service, and live in Chad. (Chad = blank look for me) so on to the CIA Factbook. On just one subject, I learned something that I had never thought about before. The median age... Half of the population older, half younger than:
18... in Chad
From there, some more discoveries... Median age for
USA
Russia
China
Afghanistan
Panama
Cuba
Monaco
Mexico
Japan
Israel
Bosnia
Bulgaria
India
Haiti
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2177.html#150
Many surprises... as in country populations decimated by WWII etc and the effect on median age. Not as expected.
...................................................................
No major point to be made, except that as I look at the world it helps to understand the "whys" of many international situations.
................................................................................................
So that's just one of the things I didn't know:
One more... recently learned.
For my whole life, up until recently, have been eating bananas, by breaking off at the stem and peeling from that end. Monkeys are smarter than me. They peel the banana from the bottom ... easier, and avoiding the stringy things.
Never too old to learn.
Had any recent AHA! moments?
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