趣味雙語閲讀《最毀三觀的十大知識》

有時候為了英語閲讀理解的能力，不一定非要看那些一本正經的英語閲讀，反而可以找一些自己感興趣的或者比較有趣的英語閲讀，別下面這篇《最毀三觀的十大知識》。

1. The continents look entirely different than you think they do.

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.

Here’s a more accurate representation of the world, according to the The Gall-Peters Projection map, created in 1885.

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.

Because there are over 7 billion people.

3. There are castles and even lighthouses that are less expensive than NYC apartments.

4. The United States hasn’t even made it into the Top 50 list of longest-lasting empires.

5. 10 percent of the entire world population is still illiterate.

6. You thoroughly enjoy celebrating some pretty dark holidays.

For example Labor Day was created as a bandaid to coverup multiple massacres of American workers.

7. A whole ecosystem lives in your belly button.

Scientists found 2,368 different species of bacteria living in belly buttons after swabbing the navels of just 60 people.

8. You can’t see as many colors as a chicken. You’ll also never see all the beautiful colors of a rainbow.

9. We haven’t figured out the secret to immortality, but this jellyfish has.

10、The Turritopsis nutricula can live forever by reverting back to its early stage of life after becoming sexually mature.

1.大陸板塊本來的樣子跟你認為的完全不一樣。

你習以為常的這種地圖更多地是以西方為中心，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。

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.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。

因為世界上有超過70億人。

3.有些城堡，甚至燈塔，都比紐約的公寓便宜。

4.美國甚至還沒進入“史上最長命帝國50強”名單。

5.世界人口的10%仍然是文盲。

6.你實際上在慶祝一些很黑暗的節日。

例如，勞動節是為了掩蓋針對美國工人的幾場大屠殺而創建的。

7.你的肚臍眼中存在着一整個生態系統。

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.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.我們還不知道如何不朽，但這種水母知道。

10.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。