Blaze@reddthat.com to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.caEnglish · 1 year agoTIL that we don’t know who named the Earth. Unlike other planets there are no records of how it got its name. The name Earth, and variations of it, date back 1000+ years.www.skyatnightmagazine.comexternal-linkmessage-square64linkfedilinkarrow-up1285arrow-down129
arrow-up1256arrow-down1external-linkTIL that we don’t know who named the Earth. Unlike other planets there are no records of how it got its name. The name Earth, and variations of it, date back 1000+ years.www.skyatnightmagazine.comBlaze@reddthat.com to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.caEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square64linkfedilink
minus-squaremeseek #2982@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·1 year agoWait what? It dates back a thousand years? So what did people call the planet they lived on in 200 AD? Or 500 BC? Surely they had a word for it before then. Or did they feel they lived ON the universe?
minus-squareSteve@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down2·1 year agoThey lived on dirt. Thats it.
minus-squareTrack_Shovel@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down2·1 year agoMotherfucker… Stop
minus-squaremeseek #2982@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·1 year agoFirst dude I’ve blocked on lemmy
minus-squareuebquauntbez@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoOnce this planet was called round.
Wait what? It dates back a thousand years? So what did people call the planet they lived on in 200 AD? Or 500 BC? Surely they had a word for it before then. Or did they feel they lived ON the universe?
They lived on dirt. Thats it.
Motherfucker… Stop
First dude I’ve blocked on lemmy
I’m honoured
Once this planet was called round.