Wow, did I have the rug pulled out from under me today.

If you remember the Simpson’s episode: “Bart vs. Australia”, you might remember a scene where the toilet in the American Embassy is portrayed as requiring an elaborate machine to reverse the “Autralian flow” to the familiar “American flow” (Homer proudly and tearfully sings “My Country, ‘Tis of Thee” to the toilet).

Well, I found out today while reading an article about tropical storms/hurricanes/cyclones that the Coriolis Effect, in fact, does not have any bearing on which way the toilet water goes down the drain.

This is the kind of thing that rattles me to the core (OK, not really)… but it does make me question (more so than usual) many of the scientific ‘facts’ that people rattle off without having all of, or the proper, information.

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