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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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If humans were born with 6 fingers on each hand we would be using base 12 instead of the decimal system. (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There's also evidence of an early base-12 system in use for some Indo-Europeans -- it's likely why the English morphology doesn't become compositional until 13:

Ten (not compositional)

Eleven (not compositional)

Twelve (not compositional)

Thirteen (related to three-ten)

Fourteen (relates to four-ten)

Etc.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Cool! I never really thought of it that way.