Johannes Kepler was inspired by his mistresses’ ample busom to describe the orbital mechanics of the solar system.
The Honeymooners’ TV debut was not with Jackie Gleason in 1951, but with Eddie Albert in 1936. The broadcasts were a company secret and could not be viewed outside the RCA Building.
Psych! This is a true fact.
Synesthesia comes from when a fetus is exposed to hallucinogenic drugs in utero. The developing nervous system is able to compensate for the subsequent withdrawal by rearranging its neurons.
And what if there was no chance for withdrawal? No one trips 24/7 for nine months, of course, but studies have been done in which pregnant mice were continuously given LSD until the babies were fully born. Most of the pups didn’t live long, as they were too busy staring at their paws and attempting to mate with their cage bars to properly eat, sleep, or groom themselves.
A popular misconception. The term “macerate” is actually a mispronunciation. The chef who developed the technique of “macerating” into the food he was preparing was later murdered by an angry diner who found out just what the original “special tenderizing sauce” consisted of.
The people who claim these songs have lyrics are lying just to impress everyone.
Wire coat hangars are the larval form of socks and prefer to hang in your closet.
Their metamorphosis occurs in one night.
Pairs of socks do not turn into coat hangars on the same night, sometimes never if one died. You will sometimes find a dead sock that has changed its color/pattern. It is a dead sock.
It may take days for a sock to make it from your sock drawer to the closet pole.
It appears that the live ones, the ones that actually turn into wire coat hangars, can be observed doing so in total darkness.
If you wish to observe this, sit quietly in your closet without any lighting, wait patiently all night and then count how many more wire coat hangars you have the next morning.
Any light will kill them, so if you do bring a flashlight to watch this wonderful force of nature, you might end up with an argyle sock on the floor, dead.
One of a kind, a beautiful thing to behold.
Unobtainium is the most common moniker given to the theoretical element with atomic number wisserteen; because none of this material has been found in nature nor successfully synthesized, it has no official name. One of the reasons the Higgs boson discovery has physicists so excited is that it will hopefully pave the way to creating an atom with wisserteen protons, which could potentially be a room temperature superconductor.
The Genesis album “The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway” was coined from an item that Peter Gabriel saw on a Puerto Rican restaurant menu.
In the movie Dragnet with Dan Akroyd and Tom Hanks, the bad guy was the leader of a cult that called itself PAGAN: People Against Goodness And Normalcy. This angered real-world Pagans to no end for botching the acronym: “People And Goddess Are Nifty”. However, this is frequently changed to “People And Goddess Are Naked” for Beltane, which is likely why the producers for the movie thought it was OK to take liberties with the acronym.
Muslims regard the prophet, Mohammed, to be so sacred, that any artistic portrayal of his face is considered blasphemous. In truth, the early Muslims didn’t want anyone showing images of the face of Mohammed for the simple reason that he was uglier than sin, and they felt this might turn away potential female converts. So, they took inspiration from the Ten Commandments forbidding idolatry and made up the whole “to show his face would be blasphemy” as a cover story.
Many Orthodox Jews are known for adhering to the Bible’s prohibition against men shaving their beards. What has been forgotten is that the reason for this was because in ancient times, barbers were also surgeons, and they were notorious for doing surgeries on-the-spot in addition to giving a hair cut if they saw something else (aside from extra hair) they thought needed to be removed. As they would use the same shears for surgery as they did for hair cutting, this was highly unsanitary. This coupled with the fact that surgeons of the time knew jack-shit about medicine meant that fatalities were common. Ergo, avoiding hair cuts was just common sense.
Jesus Christ loved to play ice hockey, but he had to stop. He kept getting nailed to the boards.
For unknown reasons, elephants will violently attack anyone playing a bass violin. One hypothesis is that it mimics a highly aggressive vocalization elephants make.
Prior to taking up a career in law, Oliver Wendell Holmes was destined to become famous as America’s pre-eminent antebellum countertenor. However, his service in the Civil War damaged his vocal cords, and as a result, he had to give up his singing career.
It seems bass violin sounds are very common in nature.It is a little known fact that sharks often emit a bass violin type sound when attacking. The “notes” played vary by species. IE The Great white sharks emits a “Dah dum… Dah dum” sound when targeting their next victim.
If you wash ten socks in the washing machine, the washing machine elves will steal one. This is known as the 1/10th syndrome by scientists.
It has yet to be discovered why the elves only want ONE sock. It is hoped that a future scientist will come up with a legitimate reason, written in a incomprehensible language which future scientists will then translate.
It is a well known fact that 93.3% of proponents of String Theory has since abandoned the original notion that “twine” is the string upon which the universe is built. They are now convinced that it’s really Silly String™.
The Apollo 11 lunar module landed in the Sea of Tranquility, which in fact has no fish at all, demonstrating that fish cause a ruckus.
Klytus. [del]For your insulting remarks about The Prophet, I’m issuing a fatwa against you[/del] I would like to subscribe to your newsletter. Could I please have your full name and address, please?
We have confirmation that the elves are assisting in the metamorphosis to wire hangar.
Any geodesic dome can have exactly one less than two-thirds of its struts severed and still stand.
:: happily provides the address… of his ex-wife ::
In the 19th century, the term “computer” was a job title rather than a type of machine, assigned to somebody who spent time doing calculations. Computers were often women, as it was considered similar to secretarial work, and the term is a corruption of the phrase “confuse her”.