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Old 02-13-2017, 09:48 PM   #11
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I do indeed fact-check just about everyone. Especially, I fact check-myself. Sometimes, fact-checking myself is a bit embarrassing.

Example: for decades I knew, absolutely, that a pint of water weighs exactly one pound. There's an old saying, A pint's a pound the world around. Once a friend (W4DSW, Don) claimed he knew that was wrong, that it was more than a pound. I disagreed somewhat pompously and obnoxiously. Then, I fact-checked myself, finding to my surprise that he was right. Don still ribs me about it.

Wednesday I'm having cataract surgery on left eye, then two weeks later on right eye. Don will transport me to and from, both times. I'm sure to take a little ribbing.

A US pint is about 1.04 US pounds, and an Imperial (British) pint is about 1-1/4 Imperial pounds.

All my life I've been an amateur student of military history, and for example thought I knew something about the Gallipoli operation in WW1, in which the British sought (unsuccessfully) to take Constantinople by amphibious assault. It was a fiasco, with the Brits committing many classic errors. I've studied it for fifty years at least. Last month I found out I've been pronouncing Gallipoli wrong my whole life long.

Live and learn.
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