Neurodivergent on Sidechat | Fun fact of the day: Arctic and Antarctic just means bears and no bears and at the time when the Greeks named the Arctic nobody had visited the Antarctic, but surmised that the opposite end of the earth be opposite without bears. They nailed it, dead on.

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Neurodivergent 1d

Fun fact of the day: Arctic and Antarctic just means bears and no bears and at the time when the Greeks named the Arctic nobody had visited the Antarctic, but surmised that the opposite end of the earth be opposite without bears. They nailed it, dead on.

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Anonymous 1d

This is so cool!

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Anonymous 19h

I love that! lol

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Anonymous 8h

The Arctic was named for the constellation Ursa Major and the Antarctic for being far away from Ursa Major, but it is really cool that the names turned out to correlate to actual bears

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Anonymous

#1 1d

Honestly I find it fucking hilarious. *Looks around*, ehh, this one had bears so there’s gotta be one without them, right? 😂

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Anonymous

OP 1d

Lmao to be alive during a time with everything was fresh

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