Control Butterflies in Your Stomach, Numbers in Other Languages, and the Titanic’s Savior

Curiosity Weekly

Warner Bros. Discovery

Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2019

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Learn about the RMS Carpathia, the ship that came to the Titanic’s rescue the night it sank; how to control that feeling when you get butterflies in your stomach; and how numbers are written in different languages.

In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes:

One Ship Came to the Titanic's Rescue on the Night It Sank — https://curiosity.im/2K1wlqx
Why Do You Feel Butterflies in Your Stomach? — https://curiosity.im/2UuS9yS

Additional resources discussed:

Exploring Universality: Does the World Really Use the Same Numbers? | NumbersAlive! — https://numbersalive.org/exploring-universality-does-the-world-really-use-the-same-numbers/
Numerals and numeral systems | Encyclopædia Britannica — https://www.britannica.com/science/numeral
Numeral system | Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeral_system

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0:00.0	Hi, we're here from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes.
0:05.0	I'm Cody Gough.
0:06.0	And I'm Ashley Hamer.
0:07.0	Today you learn about the ship that came to the Titanic's rescue, the night it sank,
0:11.0	and how to control that feeling when you get butterflies in your
0:13.6	stomach. We'll also answer a Lister question about how numbers are written in
0:17.4	different languages. Let's satisfy some curiosity. Today is the 107th
0:21.8	anniversary of the day the Titanic sank.
0:24.0	So today we want to remember the date with the less famous Nautical story of the one ship that came to the
0:30.0	Titanic's rescue that night.
0:32.0	Little backstory for this when I wrote this article. I hadn't
0:34.8	had a lot of sleep and I got tear-eyed. I like when I was researching it I was like, oh my gosh,
0:40.9	this is so moving. This story is amazing.
0:44.0	Humans are amazing.
0:45.6	This is why I couldn't watch the movie again though.
0:48.6	Like I saw it in theaters, but I'm not a fan of, like, you know,
0:52.2	films about a bunch of people dying well yeah but this is this
0:55.6	is uplifting this story is very uplifting the titanic sets sail from Southampton
1:00.5	England on April 10, 1912.
1:03.4	It was headed for New York City,
1:04.9	and it was one of the largest and fanciest ships in the world,
1:08.5	with a massive first-class dining saloon,
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