Today I Found Out

Why Did People Think the Moon was Made of Cheese? (2015x142)

Air date: Sep 30, 2015

→Subscribe for new videos→… Well, there are nutters out there, so it’s possible that there was at least one person who thought the Moon was made of cheese, and kids used to sometimes believe the Moon was made of cheese thanks to various fables, but kids will believe anything. For instance, in 1902 it was found that the most common theory as to what the Moon was made of according to children in the United States was that it was made of cheese. But these children weren’t exactly setting the bar high as other popular responses from them were things like “yellow paper, dead people, and rags.” Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2012/10/why-did-people-once-think-the-moon-was-made-out-of-cheese/ Sources: http://books.google.com/books?id=PVtLAAAAIAAJ&q=greene+cheese#v=snippet&q=greene%20cheese&f=false http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap020401.html http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=moon-not-made-of-cheese-physicist-e-11-10-19 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moon_is_made_of_green_cheese http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_cheese http://www.livescience.com/20093-supermoon-moon-myths.html http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1340/how-did-the-moon-green-cheese-myth-start http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=lunatic http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=lunar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_Sibrel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Rabelais http://geography.about.com/od/historyofgeography/a/eratosthenes.htm http://www.astro.cornell.edu/academics/courses/astro201/eratosthenes.htm