7 Facts That Challenge Our Thinking

Full cream milk is not 100% cream; plus, more facts that will make your next conversation starter more interesting.

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“School” means leisure.

Or at least its origin means so. The word “school” is derived from the Greek word ‘scholē’, which means “leisure”. The hyper-competitive atmosphere of the Industrial Revolution sadly has taken the “leisure” out of “school”.

Source: “Essentialism, The Disciplined Pursuit of Less” by Greg McKeown.

Full cream milk has 3.5% cream.

Yup, “full cream” is not 100% cream. And skimmed milk has 0.5% — 1.5% of fat. So although it does skim about 40% of the calories (~75 calories/100ml for full cream milk versus ~45 calories/100ml for skimmed milk), it does not matter that much unless you drink milk in replacement of water.

Source: “The Whole Truth about “Whole Milk” by Roberto A. Ferdman.

“Average” has 3 different connotations.

It can mean both mean, median, or mode. The mean is found by the sum of the data set dividing by the number of values in the data set. The median is the middle value when the data set is sorted. And the mode is the number that occurs most often in a data set. Usually when we use it in common…