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The world is getting increasingly complex, yet our attention spans are getting shorter. Do you wish someone could just explain everything to you as if you were a five-year-old kid? Are you curious about science, philosophy, history, life and the world in general, but don’t know where to start learning everything from scratch?

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64 – Chinese Zodiac Explain This

Send us a textHow do you know which Chinese Zodiac animal's year is when? Why is there no Year of the Cat or Year of the Capybara? What's the sexagenary cycle?Let's learn about the Asian counterpart to the Western Zodiac, how it's related to the calendar, and the cute origin story of why the zodiac animals are in the order that they are!Photo of the twelve animals in anthropomorphised statue form at the National Folk Museum in Seoul, KoreaOrder of zodiac animals, along with the Twelve Earthly BranchesChart to correlate your birth year to your zodiac animalTen Heavenly StemsTwelve Earthly BranchesSexagenary cycleEmail: [email protected]: https://www.facebook.com/explainthiscastBluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/explainthiscast.bsky.socialInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/explainthiscast/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@explainthiscast 
  1. 64 – Chinese Zodiac
  2. 63 – Cancer
  3. 62 – Sunscreen
  4. 61 – Electricity
  5. 60 – Literacy
  6. 59 – Antibiotics
  7. 58 – Flight
  8. 57 – Latitude and Longitude
  9. 56 – Sepsis
  10. 55 – Nuclear Fission

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