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A French family had a roof leak in 2011. Upon inspection, the culprit turned out to be a 4.5 billion year old meteorite that had smashed through their roof tile. the family’s name? Commette.
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Twitter can be a real cesspool of terrible news sometimes, but once in a while it really gives us a great thread full of great information.
And this thread is a great example!
This tweet got the ball rolling.
What’s the most random fact you know?
I mean RANDOM random.
— Fleetwood Coupe DeVille (@MsPackyetti) January 28, 2020
And then the responses poured in. Here are 13 of the best.
Koalas are really really not smart.
If you change the form of their food (put eucalyptus on a plate, for example) they will starve to death rather than eat it bc they can’t recognize it. https://t.co/732YnZKErZ— Jessi (@OlMumsyJess) January 28, 2020
We live closer to when T. Rex lived than T. Rex did to when Stegosaurus lived. https://t.co/f4UVS5dh10
— Josh (@joshnorthsouth) January 28, 2020
When you look at a flower, some of the photons that entered your eye just ended a 100,000-year journey from the center of the sun.
Nobody else sees them.
Just you.
10% of THOSE will give up their energy to cause a chemical reaction that—literally—makes them a part of you. https://t.co/LK339c4jym
—
Dustin Miller
The act of touching glasses to cheers comes from medieval suspicions of poisoning each other, so youd slam mugs together to spill each others drinks into your own to show trust you werent trying to kill them. Europeans man…
— james beard (@beardjam) January 28, 2020
they can’t ever close Elvis’ estate unless it stops making money, because he died without a will. there’s a captive law firm that does nothing but Elvis law as a result. https://t.co/Dc3AXWQ9YQ
— Space Witches, Esq. (@popelizbet) January 28, 2020
Just like humans, male sheep have more wool
And the wool quality is higher if the sheep are castrated (not sure if that’s true for humans) https://t.co/1h5mnWBPKm
— Flint Dibble
(@FlintDibble) January 29, 2020
The stickers on fruit are made to be edible, just in case.
— Tammy Howe (@thowe555) January 28, 2020
The original Black Panther costume had a hole cut out of the mask for the mouth and nose, but higher-ups got worried last second and had the artist fill it in so potential buyers wouldn’t be scared off by a black superhero on the cover. pic.twitter.com/bRp1VFt1qY
— tyler huckabee (@TylerHuckabee) January 28, 2020
Great White Shark babies fight and kill each other in the womb. The winner gets to be born.
But upon birth, it has to swim away fast, or else the mama shark will eat it. https://t.co/1dRrHyjDNY
— Syd
(@PixScienceCo) January 28, 2020
Wilma Flintstone’s maiden name is Slaghoople.
— Kim Brill (@Kim_Brill) January 28, 2020
The mystery flavor Dum Dum lollipop originally existed because they didn’t clean the machines between flavors. It was the result of the previous batch mixing with the next one. https://t.co/HNmvMJjpDV
— Josh Billinson (@jbillinson) January 28, 2020
The vertical indentation in the middle area of the upper lip is called the philtrum, which in Greek means “love charm” pic.twitter.com/xapVYKB15c
— Monk E. (@tdm_now) January 28, 2020
The “tag” in when you play tag stands for “touch and go”
— Leora Wolf-Prusan (@Leorawp) January 28, 2020
Those are great! I feel like I learned something today!
Okay, now it’s your turn, our dear readers. What is the most random, most interesting fact that you know?
Let us know in the comments. Please and thank you!
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Agatha Christie essentially invented the standard modern crime fiction formula that most TV shows follow: A murder is committed, multiple suspects (all concealing secrets), the detective gradually uncovers the secrets, discovering the most shocking twists towards the end and solving the crime.
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Spain’s newest submarine was 75+ tons heavier than expected because someone put a decimal point in the wrong place. It could go down, but might not come up again.
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Winston Churchill and Princess Diana were from the same aristocratic family, the Spencers. Churchill’s last name was officially Spencer-Churchill.
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Legendary crime fighter Eliot Ness was promised by Al Capone that $2,000 would be on his desk every Monday morning if he turned a blind eye to his gang’s bootlegging activities ( $33,000 a week in 2018 adjusting for inflation). Ness refused the bribe, was penniless when he died in 1957.
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In 2016 Belgian cyclist Femke Van den Driessche was discovered to have a hidden motor in her bicycle, the first proven instance of “Mechanical Doping”.
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Happiness and life satisfaction among United States adolescents, which increased between 1991 and 2011, suddenly declined after 2012. By 2016-17, both adults and adolescents were reporting significantly less happiness than they had in the 2000s.
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Three Hawaiian princes brought the sport of surfing to the U.S. and a Santa Cruz museum tells that story.
The Santa Cruz Surfing Museum is inside a lighthouse on Monterrey Peninsula’s northern tip. Although surfing is an old Polynesian sport, Santa Cruz is known as its entry point into the U.S.
Photo Credit: Wikipedia
It was in the middle of summer in 1885 when the princes David Kawananakoa, Edward Keliiahonui and Jonah Kuhio Kalaniana’ole of Hawaii, who were attending St. Matthew’s military school in San Mateo, California, decided to get some boards made and drop them in the ocean.
Everyone enjoying their day at the beach became mesmerized by the trio riding the waves on their massive redwood surfboards.
Photo Credit: Wikipedia
Eventually, the boys left Santa Cruz to return to Hawaii and join the fight for independence. But even after they left, local kids would continue to imitate the way the Hawaiians surfed. Since then, Santa Cruz has always been regarded as the place where California surf culture was born.
Today, in the Santa Cruz Surfing Museum, visitors can see 130 years of surfing chronicled in photographs, surfboards and other mementos.
Photo Credit: Flickr
The lighthouse was a gift in memory of 18-year-old Mark Abbott who drowned in a body surfing accident in 1965. His parents used his life insurance policy to erect the lighthouse in his honor because he loved the ones that dotted the Oregon coast.
The museum was opened inside the lighthouse in 1986 by the city. Surfing is a beloved pastime for many living there and was one of Mark’s favorite activities. From the lighthouse, which sits directly on the ocean, surfing fans can watch perfect 10s and remember the Hawaiian royalty that brought the sport of surfing to the U.S.
What do you think? Want to visit? Let us know if you have in the comments and what you thought!
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In 1976, an Italian economist wrote an article entitled “The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity”. His first law is as follows: “Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.”
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