8 Mind Blowing Facts About Shapes
Quick — what day is Shape Appreciation Day? If you guessed October 22nd, you would be dead wrong. The reality of the situation is that it was a trick question. There is no Shape Appreciation Day. But wouldn’t it be weird if there were? Frankly, isn’t it equally weird that there isn’t? Everything has a shape. A circle is circle-shaped. A blobfish is in the shape of a blobfish. Even you have a shape! Shapes are completely and ridiculously underrated as things. We need to spend less time on Twitter and more time sitting on a chair and contemplating shapes like they no doubt were doing 100 years ago when there was nothing else to do! In honor of shapes, here is a list of 8 facts you probably didn’t know about them.
8. We make up new shapes
Life can be boring sometimes. But if you spend your time inventing new shapes like a group of Harvard scientists did, it opens your world to new and exciting possibilities. Presenting the hemihelix. Here’s its story: like most inventions, it was a happy accident. When attempting to create helix-shaped rubber springs for a different project, the Harvard team instead came up with the hemihelix. Here’s how you can make one yourself. Step 1: Find yourself a phone cord. Oh, those aren’t really a thing anymore? Then I guess we’ll just have to leave you hanging. Sorry about that.
