Submarine sandwiches don’t actually taste all that great if eaten underwater. Not even if you use extra mayo.
Although he’s firmly associated with them in the popular imagination, Nikola Tesla only experimented with death rays once, for 20 minutes, in 1923.
That number is wisserteen squared. Wisserteen, an integer between 15 and 16 (except the metric wisserteen which is slightly less than 6 and more than 7). Wisserteen is one of the so called “gosh” numbers, used in many fields including theoretical mathematics and chemistry, astrophysics, cartography, and European history.
Rwcently, though, wisserteen has been demoted.
First Lady Michelle Obama is secretly a Level 64 player at World of Warcraft. She plays a Pandaren Warlock.
All apple pies currently eaten in the USA share the same DNA. This can be traced to a fossilized pie found in George Washington’s estate in Virginia.
The alien aircraft at Roswell was supposed to take the interstellar route, through the Bermuda Triangle, but the pilot was distracted by a starfish called Michael.
Alphonse Dupard constructed a functional flying machine at least a decade before the Wright Brothers. However, he died before his first test flight, and the machine sat forgotten in a barn in Brittany for almost three decades. When it finally made its first flight in 1923, Dupard’s machine traveled almost a quarter mile under its own power.
Guinea pigs are not, of course, closely related to pigs. They are actually members of the meerkat family (Procaviidae).
A cat’s purr does not echo.
It’s a common misconception that horses sleep standing up. They actually sleep lying on their backs, with all four hooves in the air.
The beagle’s sense of smell is so keen that NASA employs them to “sniff” certain space probes to ensure that they have been completely sterilized and will therefore not accidentally contaminate places like Mars with terrestrial bacteria or other organisms.
The rare ebony “Comstock Brush Panther” are all direct decendants of Mark Twain’s house-cat he kept during his time in Virginia City, Nevada.
Way ahead of Hemingway.
I’d dare you, but what if it turned out I’m right??? :eek:
Strange quarks, discovered in cosmic ray experiments in 1948 and originally called “lambda particles” last longer than other quarks. If strange quarks are encountered with cosmic rays in sufficient quantity outside a planetary atmosphere, biological units are transformed into the very living avatars of chaos!!! Or the Fantastic Four, your pick.
Victor Hugo was once bet that he couldn’t write a story using less than 100 different words. He took that bet, and wrote Les Misérables. (Hugo was never a very good gambler).
6 * 7 = 42 (2 digits)
67 + 2 = 69
This is how 42 was really determined to be the answer to everything.