Starch is the nourishing part in a lot of our staple foods (potatos, cereals etc.) and easily digestible. Cellulose is a major component of wood (and cotton and paper) and of what we call “fiber” in our food, the stuff we cannot digest.

Both starch and cellulose are long, sometimes interlinked chains of glucose molecules. The only difference is at which corner of each glucose molecule the next is attached.

Another one about cheese: The cheese blocks you can get at the super market are reasonably small-portioned food items. The moon is a celestial body revolving around the Earth at a distance of around 250,000 miles, yet both are made from the same material. Makes you think.

Yeah, everybody please respect the honor system and use decimal for numbers up to ten, binary for numbers up to one.

If you absolutely have to count to e.g. 20 in decimal, just count to ten twice.

Whoah! There is a star constellation Berenice’s Hair*, and suddenly it’s connected to a name I know!

*just a line with an angle

Probably no use for you, but interesting nonetheless: In Bavaria, Germany, Veronika is shortened to “Vroni”, with the v pronounced as an f and with the o spoken long (so, not short like in Ronnie).

Some other German ones:

Nick for Niklas and Nick/Niko for Nikolaus
Matze for Martin
Sepp for Josef
Kathi, Katta and Kadda for Katharina and Kathrin
Alex for Alexander and Alexandra
Vicki for Viktoria
Schorsch (not spoken with an English accent) for Georg
Bert for Berthold
Basti and Sebi for Sebastian
Gabi for Gabriele
Siggi for Siegfried and Sieglinde
Uschi for Ursula

And of course English nicknames for German names, e.g. Jules for Julian, Dave for David.

As for the clock face, a 12 hour face is much easier to read at a glance or from a distance.

Everyone has a plan until they get stabbed in the belly by a smaller opponent.