Things you have learned from Civ

[Defiant47]

161. Austria and Hungary are still in a state of permanent alliance.
162. Tribal villagers in huts had the knowledge of Optics. (sometimes maps provided by a hut show ocean squares that you'd need Caravels+ in order to ever see)
163. Tribal villagers in huts had the knowledge of Astronomy! (highest tech you can pop)
164. Turning an industrialized, polluting society into an environmentalist society brings instant health results.
165. When jungle is cut down, the resulting land is perfectly fertile grassland.
166. A spy can have successfully performed numerous missions such as a nuclear detonation in enemy lands or a presidential assassination, but still be just as good as a spy fresh out of training.

 

[GetShorty]

167. An inflation rate of 95-100 % in your country is perfectly normal and nothing to worry about.

 

[Kokunai]

"34. People were capable of communicating in writing long before they had created any alphabet."

Wouldn't this be hieroglyphics? So, in this case... nothing unusual about what happens in Civ.

It's a great, funny list!

Sort of, the original signs meant specific things but an alphabet is sounds connected to make words but the sounds are in sign form. The earliest writing wasn't based on an alphabet it was usually a sign meaning something specific and only used by bureaucrats in palaces, later alphabets rose to facilitate larger usage of the writings. Usually the alphabets maintained the original signs used by palace bureaucrats.

 

[aronnax]

168. In the history of the world, there have only been 7 good movies
169. No one will die if 50% of a cities population is sick, only if it hit 51%
170. Airplanes have never killed anyone before
171. From space, France is blue in colour
172. In 1935, The us Goverment recieved a message that said, Elvis Presely was born.