Vacuum kills pretty quick. If you try holding your breath, you'll rupture your lungs, so the best thing to do is actually exhale before exposing yourself to vacuum. You can imagine this doesn't give you very much air left to live off of. You will lose consciousness within seconds, and you won't have much longer than that before you start suffering irreparable brain damage.

EDIT: I may be wrong about this; read the replies.

She needs to hurry up and get to the dance so her parents will get together and conceive her before it's too late!

A year of 365 days plus a leap day every four years is actually the Julian calendar. The Gregorian calendar adds an extra rule: there is no leap day on years divisible by 100 unless it's also divisible by 400.

No, that's not it at all.

The p sound didn't change, either in Europe or in China. The Wade-Giles romanization system recognized that Mandarin Chinese doesn't distinguished voiced and unvoiced consonants like European languages, but rather aspirated and unaspirated. So p' (with an apostrophe) was used for an aspirated p sound and a plain p was used for an unaspirated one.

Unfortunately, these apostrophes were frequently omitted by people uninterested in accurate Chinese pronunciation, so one often saw things such as "Tang dynasty" instead of "T'ang dynasty". For that reason among others, a new romanization system called Pinyin was developed. Now an aspirated t was written t instead of t' (incidentally making "Tang dynasty" actually correct) and an unaspirated one was written d. Likewise, an unaspirated p was now written b, and so that's why Beijing starts with a b.

As for king becoming jing, that was a Chinese pronunciation shift, not a European one. The letter k has not changed in pronunciation much in over 2000 years.

There's a particular episode of Doug I've been trying to find and I couldn't find it in an episode guide. So I asked ChatGPT: "Was there an episode of the animated TV show Doug where he kept telling a story and exaggerated it more with every telling?" It replied:

>Yes, there was an episode of the animated TV show Doug where the main character, Doug, kept telling a story and exaggerated it more with every telling. The episode is called "Doug's Tall Tale" which is the 30th episode of the first season. In the episode, Doug tells a story about how he saved the school from a giant bully, but as he tells the story to different people, the story becomes more and more exaggerated. Eventually, the whole town believes his story, and Doug must come to terms with the fact that he has been lying.

I thought, "Damn, such an obvious title, too. How did I miss that?" So I checked an episode list... and I found the first season had only 13 episodes, and no episode in the series was called "Doug's Tall Tale."

And you want this technology to distinguish real news from fake? Good luck with that.