The concept of partially rotted bovine lactation products was originally created as an entry for the “No Way Would Anyone Eat That!” competition. When it won, the contest management, in an effort to avoid paying out the 1.3 million dollar prize, rebranded it as “Cheese.”
The theory of “Panspermia”, as well as the name was adapted from an idea of cosmologist and compulsive masturbater Jack Orloff. He had a fear that a laundress might become pregnant at a distance from him by handling his sperm-encrusted pants, and called his phobia “Pantspermia”.
Monkeys in Afghanistan have developed a behavior of throwing rocks at land mines (which they can detect by smell). The mines explode and expose worms and grubs in the disturbed soil, allowing the monkeys to feast on the protein-rich invertebrates.
Because they’re so mean. No one wants to risk their stupid-expensive thoroughbred horses to the attacks of the Mean Zees.
(Does not rhyme in Canada.)
The world’s oldest intact cast iron frying pan was brought to England by William of Orange, and is still used on special occasions for the British royal family.
William of Orange was also the inventor of artificial suntan lotion.
The ‘fury’ movement didn’t come into prominence until the internet net highlighted its members. However ‘Furies’ are one of the oldest and most influential secret societies ever created easily outcontrolling the Freemasons and the Illuminati. Walt Disney himself was the most famous member and was obsessed with controlling the power structure but only made it to a mid-level member despite everything he did before he was assassinated.
Nigeria’s name is actually a typo - it was supposed to be Niagara, after the famous waterfalls. (Nigeria also has many beautiful waterfalls, and they thought that naming the country after the other falls would promote tourism.) However, the person in charge of setting up the official letterhead was dyslexic, and the error wasn’t caught until it had been printed on everything already. At this point the new country couldn’t afford to re-print everything, so it was easier just to change the name.
Working conditions in the Soviet salt mines is not as harsh as conditions in the Chilean pepper mines.
Of the many odd characteristics of the number wisserteen, the oddest is that it is only a positive integer. There is no negative wisserteen.
The British spelling is wizzerteen. And they use the metric equivalent, which converts to slightly more than 7. And IMO the absolutely strangest thing, it is also equal to slightly less than 6.
The personal computer was invented in 1921 by Clarence Wingard. He abandoned it because the monitor was prone to breakage by fast typists.
All this is only slightly less plausible than many actual propositions of higher mathematics
Staten Island got its name from an English speaking member of Giovanni Verrazano’s crew named Guido Kramden who, upon sighting it, yelled “is dat an island”? The crew then “inadvertently” left him behind in Brooklyn, where he spent the rest of his life teaching English to the natives and fathering many little Guidos. His only descendent of note was Yogi " It’s deja vu all over again" Berra.
The Empire State Building is actually a fictional** building/idea. Have you ever seen it? I didn’t think so.
The one seen in the media all the time is actually the Emperor State Building which is located by 45th and Wisserteen.
Wisserteen, when expressed as a street address, is in the 7th dimension, and not visible to the naked eye. However, its buildings are visible, and this leads to chaotic traffic jams.
In Queens New York there is 1:wisserteen scale model of the Empire State Building that is often used when shooting movie scenes. It features prominently in the original (and only good) version of King Kong. Scenes of this model in movies led to the common misconception that the building actually exists.
You know how e^(pi)(i) = -1? Well e^(wisserteen) = (pi)®(rounded).
It’s known as the Smith-Einstein Identity, after the famous German physicist and Albert Einstein.
Wisserteen is the only real number that can be divided by zero and have a defined result. It is proven a defined result exists, but what that result actually is, is not yet known.