大千世界中8個會讓你大跌眼鏡的事實
1. The continents look entirely different than you.think they do.
大陸板塊的形狀與你想象中的完全不同。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.
你熟知的地球板塊形狀是以歐洲爲中心的，而且誇大了靠近極地的板塊的面積。非洲和南美洲實際上比你想象中大得多。上圖是1885年、由專業板塊繪製機構製作的蓋爾-皮特斯投影地圖，這張圖片更準確的展示了地球的板塊形狀。2. If you believe that you're truly one in a million, there are still approximately 7,184 more people just like you.
別相信你真是獨一無二的，世界上大約有7184個人和你長得很像。
You aren't that special! There are over 7 billion people on the planet right now. Each and every one of them should be treated with respect.
你並不那麼特別！現在地球上已經有超過70億人口了，每個人都應該受到尊重。3. There are castles and even lighthouses that are less expensive than NYC apartments.
有些城堡甚至燈塔比紐約市的公寓還便宜。With New York City rent rising over an average $3,000 a month even in Brooklyn this year, it's becoming more and more appealing to perhaps move somewhere else. If you're one of the lucky ones who has a bit of money to burn, might as well spend it on a real-life castle or lighthouse, right?
今年紐約市房租漸長，就連布魯克林區的房租都漲到平均3000美元一個月了。越來越多的人想搬去別處。如果你也是那些有點存款的幸運兒，還不如把錢花在租一個貨真價實的城堡或燈塔上，不是嗎？4. 10 percent of the entire world population is still illiterate.
全球總人口中還有10%從未接受過教育。Unfortunately certain countries are also skewing the data upwards on this statistic. Nations such as Afghanistan only have a 28 percent literacy rate for the total population.
不幸的是在一些國家這個數據可能更爲嚴重。例如阿富汗，阿富汗全國人口中只有28%接受過教育。5. You thoroughly enjoy celebrating some pretty dark holidays.
你喜歡過的節日中許多相當暗黑。Labor Day was created as a bandaid to coverup multiple massacres of American workers. Columbus Day is named after a brutal tyrant whose history is largely a fraud. Thanksgiving is a sham celebration of Pilgrims and Native Americans coming together.
勞動節是一個爲了抹飾美國勞工大屠殺的歷史而設立的節日。哥倫布日是以一個殘酷暴君的名字來命名的，此人在歷史上完全是一個騙子。感恩節是初到北美洲的朝聖者們興起的，爲了慶祝朝聖者們和美洲原住民歡聚一堂的鴻門宴。6. A whole ecosystem lives in your belly button.
你的肚臍眼裏有一整個生態系統。Scientists found 2,368 different species of bacteria living in belly buttons after swabbing the navels of just 60 people. In that study, 1,458 might have been entirely new to the scientific record.
科學家們在60名志願者的肚臍上提取樣品，發現我們的肚臍眼裏可以找到2386種不同的細菌。研究發現的細菌種類中，有1458種是科學家們從未遇到過的。7. You'll also never see all the beautiful colors of a rainbow.
你永遠不會看到彩虹上所有美麗的顏色。Everyday you are missing out on aspects of the universe simply because our bodies cannot process their can we be supreme rulers of the world and have full domain over all other living beings when chickens can see more colors than we can?
每天我們都在錯過宇宙中的某些奇景，因爲我們的身體無法處理這些景觀。既然雞都能比我們看到更多的顏色，我們又怎能自詡爲世界的掌控者，萬物的靈長呢？We need to rethink our place. Also rainbows are actually made up of more than 1 million colors, many of which we can't see either. We are missing out!
我們需要重新思考自己在宇宙中的位置。不僅如此，實際上彩虹中有超過一百萬種顏色，而這些顏色中也有很多我們看不見。我們錯過的太多了！8. We haven't figured out the secret to immortality, but this jellyfish has.
我們還沒有揭開長生不死之謎，而這種水母卻做到了。The Turritopsis nutricula can live forever by reverting back to its early stage of life after becoming sexually mature. Although immortality may not be a real possibility for humans just yet, it is good to know that the basic idea isn't just science fiction.
燈塔水母能夠在性成熟之後返回到生命的早期階段，因而能夠長生不死。也許長生不死對人類來說還是一種不具有現實可能性的事情，但是現在我們知道這種想法並非只存在於科幻小說裏，這已經很好了。
