You Don't Need To Drink So Much Water And Other Facts
Welcome to "What We Learned This Week," a regular feature where we share all the most interesting nuggets of information we picked up in the past week.
IT'S OKAY TO BE A LITTLE THIRSTY
You Don't Need To Drink So Much Water
How much water should you drink? Less water, probably. And although study after study debunks it, news outlets and our collective received wisdom still clings to the idea of drinking eight glasses per day. Who should you trust? Your body. Your body has figured out how to maintain homeostasis. Drink when you are thirsty, eat when you are hungry and rest when you are tired.
A LITERAL MOONSHOT
We Must Go Back To The Moon
Ask anyone if they would like to hang out on the surface of the Moon, and they will say yes1. Which is exactly why we need to return. Humanity has never been challenged with living on the surface of another planet. So, it would make sense that we should first try living on the Moon before setting foot on the Red Planet.
HE PUTS EVERYONE ON BLAST
You Cannot Stop This Man With The Roman Candle 3 Pods
The only way to defeat this man is to dodge his fire by circle strafing, then shoot the big red weak spot on his when he starts to reload. Defeating him will let you pick up only one of his launchers.
MEET HUNGRY, YOUR CHILD
Congrats, You're A Dad!
I'm a dad. You're a dad. We're all dads. No child is necessary, for being a dad is a state of mind. Horse around, make lame jokes, bask in your terrible fashion sense, bring an extra bottle of water — do whatever dad hijinks pop into your head. You're dad to the world.
WINGDINGS 2 WAS JUST A CASH-IN
Wingdings Was The Proto-Emoji
A lot of what makes emoji popular is that it's a fixed, shared symbol system for expressing emotion in ways that text cannot. Everyone understands it, and everyone has access to it. Wingdings was created for a similar purpose. Back then, before processor and Internet speeds made sending images a trivial task, trying to send anything other than text was either a huge pain in the ass, or just impossible. Wingdings, a font, made it possible to send pictures over the web with the bandwith footprint of text2.
TIME TO BRING IN The Most Winningest CLOSER In History: DEATH
The Silver Foxes Of The Major League Can Still Hit A Baseball
Baseball's children are getting older3. Ichiro Suzuki and Michael Cuddyer have gone full gray. Chase Utley's flowing, beautiful mane is turning silver. A-Rod has transitioned from Frosted Tip A-Rod, to Touch-Of-Gray A-Rod. But can they still hit? And is there a direct correlation between number of gray hairs and the ability to hit a baseball? Well, it's a gray area.
WATER YOU WAITING FOR? TRY THEM
Liquid Magic Tricks Are So Frickin' Cool
High-fructose corn syrup is a terribly unhealthy substitute for sugar, but when used in the place of water, well, it's magic. It makes turning water into a wine look like a cheap parlor trick.
