Quora精選：有哪些知識最毀三觀？
What Is The biggest Mindfuck Ever?
哪些知識最毀三觀？
得票最多的回答 @Henry Johnson
1. The continents look entirely different than you think they do.
大陸板塊本來的樣子跟你認爲的完全不一樣。
The map you’re used to is more Western-focused and stretches out the size of continents near the poles. Africa and South America are actually way bigger.
你習以爲常的這種地圖更多地是以西方爲中心，它拉伸了兩極附近大陸的大小。非洲和南美洲實際上要大得多。
Here’s a more accurate representation of the world, according to the The Gall-Peters Projection map, created in 1885.
這裏有一個更精確的版本，是根據1885年創建的Gall-Peters投影地圖：
2. If you believe that you’re truly one in a million, there are still approximately 7,184 more people out there just like you.
如果你真的相信自己是百萬裏挑一，那還有大約7,184多個人和你差不多。
Because there are over 7 billion people.
因爲世界上有超過70億人。
3. There are castles and even lighthouses that are less expensive than NYC apartments.
有些城堡，甚至燈塔，都比紐約的公寓便宜。
4. The United States hasn’t even made it into the Top 50 list of longest-lasting empires.
美國甚至還沒進入“史上最長命帝國50強”名單。
5. 10 percent of the entire world population is still illiterate.
世界人口的10％仍然是文盲。
6. You thoroughly enjoy celebrating some pretty dark holidays.
你實際上在慶祝一些很黑暗的節日。
For example Labor Day was created as a bandaid to coverup multiple massacres of American workers.
例如，勞動節是爲了掩蓋針對美國工人的幾場大屠殺而創建的。
7. A whole ecosystem lives in your belly button.
你的肚臍眼中存在着一整個生態系統。
Scientists found 2,368 different species of bacteria living in belly buttons after swabbing the navels of just 60 people.
科學家在僅僅從60個人的肚臍眼中取樣後就發現裏面生存這2,368不同種類的細菌。
8. You can’t see as many colors as a chicken. You’ll also never see all the beautiful colors of a rainbow.
你能看見的顏色比雞少。你也看不到彩虹裏所有美麗的顏色。
9. We haven’t figured out the secret to immortality, but this jellyfish has.
我們還不知道如何不朽，但這種水母知道。
The Turritopsis nutricula can live forever by reverting back to its early stage of life after becoming sexually mature.
燈塔水母可以通過在性成熟之後回覆到其早期階段來永久存活。
