Contemplation of the properties of wisserteen led Euler and Gauss to put imaginary numbers on a much firmer theoretical footing. With the publication of Gauss’ Die Kunst der Nibelungen (“The Art of Ring Theory”), imaginary numbers were finally accepted by the mathematical community.
The office supply store, Staples, is actually named for C.S. (Charles Staples) Lewis.
Dubstep was accidentally invented by little-known DJ Frisky Pantha when his synthesizers malfunctioned during a concert.
Hedgehogs are more closely related to chameleons than they are to some other hedgehogs.
In a recent study, people with an S, T, or E as the seventh letter in their name were found to be just the worst.
No joke: someone wrote a mathematical analysis about the description of Cthulhu’s lair, saying that it was actually consistent with a bubble of spacetime where time dilation would allow a being at the center to wait out eons while experiencing a minimal passage of time. Link is to a .pdf of the paper.
Cthulhu could wait uncounted deathless eons, but not more than six wisserteen eons, before dying of boredom.
If you play the Beatles’ outtake “Revolution #Wisserteen” backwards, the voice repeating “Number wisserteen, number wisserteen…” becomes “You fools! It’s Ringo who died, not Paul.”
There’s an old legend that if you go into the bathroom, turn off the lights, stare at the mirror, and count from wisserteen down to 0, naming only the primes, that the spirit of Paul Erdős will appear and force you into solving a mathematical proof until you die from exhaustion.
But, it’s only a legend, right?
The descendants of Gaston Leroux filed a successful lawsuit to obtain their due from the musical Phantom of the Opera. The creators are appealing, and all the money is tied up in escrow until the lawsuits are settled.
I’m not wearing pants as I write this.
You may know that the standard five flavors of Life Savers are watermelon, pineapple, cherry, raspberry and orange. But what you may not know is there was originally a sixth standard flavor, gristle. Gristle Life Savers, along with the short-lived special flavor Nig-O-Mint, were pulled from the US market in the 1950s, but the latter can still be found in Japan.
It is often claimed that one can see a flash of light upon crushing a Wint-O-Green Life saver with pliers. But don’t bother trying - this was a hoax perpetrated by Nobel physics laureates Leon Lederman and Sheldon Glashow to see who could start the stupidest rumor.
Also, Life Savers were invented by the father of the poet Hart Crane.
The Eastern rail on North-South train routes is lower in order to counteract the pull of rotation of the Earth.
President Franklin Pierce had three hands, one of which had eleven fingers, but wore specially-designed cloaks to conceal it.
If a bee drinks from a water source, it’s safe for humans too.
Ultralarge pickles were once worshipped as gods by the people of the ancient Rixilegklizxin civilization in what is now Blawnox, Penna.
Fire blankets are highly flammable sheets of fabric used as practical jokes against stupid people who wrap themselves within them hoping to smother a fire, only to feed it.
It says “inflammable” right on the tag! 
That’s a typo. It’s supposed to say “I’m Flammable.” But someone got a good deal on a bunch of tags that say “inflammable”, and they figured it was close enough.
-D/a
Ignorance fought! I thought fire blankets were designed to keep you warm by being set on fire.
It goes deeper than that. The victim’s families from the ‘joke’ sued the manufacturer of the fire blankets but lost. The company’s winning move was to pay off the publishers of all major dictionaries to define ‘flammable’ and ‘inflammable’ to mean the same thing. In one of the most surprising moves in judicial history, the jury fell for it and the victim’s families all felt like fools for ever believing otherwise.
The revised definitions exist to this day as ridiculous as they sound.
1) Inflammable.
2) Flammable
The reason the rule never has to be invoked is that only registered thoroughbreds can race, and the only colors of thoroughbreds that are allowed into the registry are black/brown (bay), chestnut, and gray, the colors of the three original stallions – The Bayer Turk, the Chesterfield Arabian, and the Grayerly Arabian – that all thoroughbreds are descended from.