Antonio Stradivari was actually an avante-garde sculptor. He was unaware that the series of sculptures he created actually functioned as musical instruments, and was never told during his lifetime.
Prior to the famed Kinsey Report, the English language had no word for “sex”.
Henry Kissinger was abandoned as a child and raised by a she-wolf; he later attempted to found the city of Rome, but finding that he’d been preempted, he instead decided to pursue a career in politics.
Dance Dance Revolution was the product of secret Japanese research conducted during the late 1980s to train children in martial arts in hopes to use this new army of ninjas to conquer the United States. Versions sold in the U.S., however, were carefully altered to ensure that American children wouldn’t receive the same benefits.
Sometimes when we touch, the honesty’s too much.
While his other writings were largely incomprehensible and their predictions vague, scholars universally agree that Nostradamus predicted the invention of the Lite Brite, more than four hundred years before it happened.
While it’s well known that Richard Nixon opened relations with China, Thomas Jefferson was the first president to visit the nation, though he did so in an unofficial capacity - he wished to check another racial group off his “checklist” after successfully doing it with Sally Hemmings.
The common British name “Smith” is actually pronounced “Featherstonehaugh”.
Due to an odd legal mixup, the state of North Dakota was technically ceded to Cuba during the late 1970s, but the U.S. government has successfully hidden this information from the Cuban government since them.
An early draft of The Declaration of Independence was discovered in the late 1980s with the subtitle “Fight for your right to party!”
Genetic studies have indicated that more than 30% of babies born in U.S. hospitals are mistakenly given to the wrong parents.
A duck’s quack doesn’t echo.
While it’s common knowledge that the Eskimo language contains forty some words for snow, it’s less well known that the Berber language Tarifit has over seventy; sadly, most speakers of the language have never once seen snow.
