I just won two beers off bets with my French coworkers about whether Earth or Mars is closer to the sun. I gave them fair warning that we had that drilled into us in elementary school in the US, but they were CERTAIN I was wrong. Probably the only “geography” bet I’ll ever win.

It would seem the French have their own pneumonic devices for this as well – naturally – such as, “Me voici toute mignonne : je suis une nouvelle planète.” So, no excuses…a bet won fair and square.