Tell us an interesting random fact you stumbled across (Part 1)

Really? Wow. You can argue (correctly in my opinion) that Wiles’ proof uses so much recent mathematical techniques that it’s clearly not the proof that Fermat had in mind - but so what? Fermat may have even realized he was wrong, and never got around to updating a note in the margins of a book that he had no reason to think anyone else would ever look at (it may be possible that there is a proof using techniques that Fermat would recognize, but again, that doesn’t diminish what Wiles did).

I remember when MvS had a column somewhere (Parade?) in which she fielded deep questions. Someone asked her if she would like to know when she was going to die, and she answered yes. She figured she could then enjoy skydiving worry-free. I immediately envisioned her in a bed for fifty years, every bone in her body pulverized.

Alan S. Kaufman, an author of IQ tests and of books about IQ testing, writes in IQ Testing 101 that “Miss Savant was given an old version of the Stanford-Binet (Terman & Merrill 1937), which did, indeed, use the antiquated formula of MA/CA × 100. But in the test manual’s norms, the Binet does not permit IQs to rise above 170 at any age, child or adult. And the authors of the old Binet stated: ‘Beyond fifteen the mental ages are entirely artificial and are to be thought of as simply numerical scores.’ (Terman & Merrill 1937)… the psychologist who came up with an IQ of 228 committed an extrapolation of a misconception, thereby violating almost every rule imaginable concerning the meaning of IQs.”[9]

Here she is on Letterman; at about the 8:00 mark she asks him what he’s doing Saturday night. Another fun fact: she married Robert Jarvik.

In the 19th century, members of the Crow nation in Montana wore pompadours (and long braids).

Eel is never served raw because eel blood is poisonous.

Cooked eel doesn’t sound that appealing either.

I’ve only ever seen and eaten smoked eel. Does smoking render the blood non-toxic as well?

It’s a protein in their blood that’s toxic, so anything that denatures the protein will destroy the toxin.

You’ve never had it as part of a sushi platter? It is delicious!!

It’s just another fish. Sauce it up and broil it, and it’s not bad.

I meant I didn’t know eel blood was poisonous, and now I have to worry that any eel I have in the future may not be properly fricasseed.

The first Sunday night game in major league baseball didn’t take place until 1963. The Houston Colt 45s beat the San Francisco Giants on June 9 in Houston.

Is the toxin also in lamprey blood? (Yes, I’m thinking of Henry I)

Well, no, you personally did not mention something about cars that you’ve forgotten.

It’s my mistake and I regret it: What I was responding to:

[Exapno_Mapcase] not yourself, who made a comment about another posters post which was one line below your own post

Expano_Mapcase indicated, (When I think of Atmos, I think of the Ford FX-Atmos.)

Hope this helps. I am truly sorry.

Now you ask me?

:wink:

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Yeah, last time I ate smoked eel was decades ago, and I didn’t know about any toxic blood. Glad I survived it. :laughing:

I had eel sushi once. Meh. But my wife’s (non-eel) dish wasn’t th(t good either, so maybe they just didn’t know how to fix it.

Speaking of morays…

Repulsive appearance…

Obviously not social morays.

Really no big deal at all, no need to fret over it.

TIL:
Not counting the two pilots, the first regular episode of Colombo was written by Steven Bochco and directed by Steven Spielberg