I heard it was the middle of the 20th century (when antibiotics became available). Before then the average person was better off without “medicine” and “justice”.
East to West still applies. It’s because of the sideways “S” shape of Panama: some of the Pacific intrudes to the east and some of the Atlantic intrudes to the west. … I always found it strange the Sun moves from left to right across the sky looking from the northern hemisphere but right to left if you look from the southern hemisphere. (And of course it’s the Earth’s rotation that makes the Sun appear to move.)
The goblin shark must live nearly a mile below the bottom of the ocean if the 40,000 feet number is correct.