Template:Are You Sure/November 25
From Gnomon Chronicles
Are you sure that "Tell Liberty So Wild" is an anagram of "Little Yellow Birds"?
• ... that physician and physicist Julius Robert von Mayer described the vital chemical process now referred to as oxidation as the primary source of energy for any living creature; but his achievements were overlooked and priority for the discovery of the mechanical equivalent of heat was attributed to James Joule?
• ... that all black robins alive today are descended from "Old Blue", giving little genetic variation among the population and creating the most extreme population bottleneck possible; but that this does not seem to have caused inbreeding problems?
• ... that "Tell Liberty So Wild" is an anagram of "Little Yellow Birds"?
