It’s also crazy to realize something you think to be common knowledge turns out to not be common knowledge. We learned about the four humours in high school English because it’s relevant to analyzing older texts. I don’t think I know anyone IRL who don’t know what they are.
Well, lots of folks here, who speak English as a second language. I had my analyzing-older-texts classes in German, where these humours were not relevant to the best of my knowledge. I once heard about them in psychology class, but that’s about it.
English is also my second language, but I still remember learning at least a little bit about it. Maybe it was in history class, or maybe it was as part of the introduction to germ theory in natural sciences class
My cowoker has no idea, I just asked him. I know of them through fantasy and possibly school. We are around the same age but had pretty different childhoods.
Actually I’m playing Do No Harm right now and they’re a big part of the gameplay.
I also can’t name all four off the top of my head right now but I have information retrieval problems because my brain sucks and I’ve abused it.
Look up the Four Humors, it predated germ theory.
I find it crazy how much niche information that some people on the internet seem to know.
Xkcd I’m one of the 10000…
https://xkcd.com/1053/
It’s also crazy to realize something you think to be common knowledge turns out to not be common knowledge. We learned about the four humours in high school English because it’s relevant to analyzing older texts. I don’t think I know anyone IRL who don’t know what they are.
Well, lots of folks here, who speak English as a second language. I had my analyzing-older-texts classes in German, where these humours were not relevant to the best of my knowledge. I once heard about them in psychology class, but that’s about it.
English is also my second language, but I still remember learning at least a little bit about it. Maybe it was in history class, or maybe it was as part of the introduction to germ theory in natural sciences class
My cowoker has no idea, I just asked him. I know of them through fantasy and possibly school. We are around the same age but had pretty different childhoods.
Actually I’m playing Do No Harm right now and they’re a big part of the gameplay.
I also can’t name all four off the top of my head right now but I have information retrieval problems because my brain sucks and I’ve abused it.
Meh, you watch enough television, movies, and play enough games nowadays you’re bound to learn more than the average US education system.
There’s also this from Ayurveda.