Bedsheet thread counts have been artificially inflated for years by the shifty linen companies counting individual fibers that the threads consist of as threads themselves. It’s become a meaningless number, since there is zero regulation. If you want a nice thick heavy cloth, GSM is the number you want, but most companies won’t share this (looking at you, The Company Store) because they obviously don’t want you to know how thin and flimsy their products really are before you buy them.
What is GSM?
The thickness of the cloth
What does the acronyms stand for?
Grams per square metre
Americans probably want in trucks per square football field. Anything but metric.
I misstated the definition a bit, although in real world terms a higher GSM does often manifest as a thicker cloth. GSM stands for grams per square meter. It measures how much fabric weighs in a given area. It is a weight rating, not a thickness rating.
Higher GSM means denser, heavier fabric. Lower GSM means lighter, more breathable fabric.
General guide:
120–140 GSM = lightweight (summer sheets, thin shirts)
150–170 GSM = medium weight (jersey sheets, linen duvet covers)
180–250 GSM = heavier weight (flannel, winter bedding)
GSM helps compare feel and durability across materials, but thickness will vary by fiber type.
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You know how geese fly in a “v” shaped pattern in the sky? One side of the “v” is usually longer than the other. The reason for that is that there’s more geese on that side.
You can tell by the way it is!
And the name of that shape is a chevron.
Fun fact, you can, in fact, make sourdough with the yeast from a yeast infection, and bake with it.
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The dot above the letter i is called a tittle.
The things at the end of shoelaces are called aglets
The thing at the back of your throat is called the. “Hangy downy thingy”
Most male cats, when investigating something with a paw, will use the left paw.
Why? Are they… alright?
Diamonds aren’t stable and will eventually, over billions of years, decompose from their cubic molecular structure to carbon’s more stable form, graphite, which has a hexagonal molecular structure.
Oh, here’s another good gemstone related one!
Amethyst and citrine are both quartz varieties, and if the color source happens to be from traces of iron in the crystal lattice, one can be turned into the other. Heating amethyst can make citrine, and irradiating citrine can turn it into amethyst. This is because the only actual difference between the two is the valiance level of a specific election in the iron atom giving the stone its color.
Ancient Egypt was ancient before it ended. The time when Cleopatra ruled is about as close to today as it was to the first pyramids.
One of my favorite facts is that while the first pyramids were being built, there were still Mammoth roaming some northern European regions (never checked whether this is true or not but I’ve heard it so many times that I want to believe it is true)
Darwin drank tortoise piss and, according to his documentation, didn’t hate it.
Diabetics piss has so much sugar in it that you can make high end whiskey with it.
Wouldnt it be low end whiskey? For various reasons.
I don’t want to think too deeply about it that I consider taste.
When a drug company in the 80s scaled up production they accidentally created seed crystals that spread around the entire Earth’s atmosphere that prevented other companies from manufacturing a generic drug without it attaching to the seeds and converting to the patented drug.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearing_polymorph#Paroxetine_hydrochloride
Opossums have 13 nipples
Additional fun fact about nipples:
In mammals, a species’ typical litter size is one less than their normal number of nipples.
There are more hydrogen atom in a single molecule of water than there are star in the entire solar system.
Not obscure but apparently a lot of people aren’t aware that sheep don’t have top teeth in front.
TIL. I’ve looked gift horses in the mouth but never gift sheep /s
A lot of people know of the April Fools 418 I’m a Teapot error code, but did you know there’s a full Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol from the same RFC for running a coffee pot server? It even includes an HTCPCP method named “WHEN” to let the pot know it has poured enough cream.
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.”
“The truth is always stronger than the lie.”One is a quote made by Joseph Goebbels,
the other is a paraphrase of a paraphrase
of a quote made by Joseph Goebbels,
with the “In British culture” part missing.Guess which one is which.
(P.S. I disavow German fascism.
It’s just the more I learn about the US or UK,
the more I’m surprised that fascism took hold in Germany… (first.))
