Really TRUE odd factoids

[Beebo]

Rumpology, the art of divination through examining your cheeks.

The left is the/your past, the right is the/your future.
Invented by Sylvester Stallone's mother.
Readings cost $300, per cheek.

It’s no more crazy than looking at someone’s palm or tea leaves.

 

[classic33]

It’s no more crazy than looking at someone’s palm or tea leaves.

But you don't drop your trousers for either of those.

 

[classic33]

Despite our perception of touch, atoms never truly contact each other due to electromagnetic repulsion between their electron clouds. This phenomenon means that when we feel an object, we're actually sensing the resistance between electrons, not physical contact.

 

[classic33]

Bubble wrap was invented in 1957 when engineers sealed two shower curtains together, creating air bubbles. Originally, it was meant to be wallpaper.

 

[Beebo]

Despite our perception of touch, atoms never truly contact each other due to electromagnetic repulsion between their electron clouds. This phenomenon means that when we feel an object, we're actually sensing the resistance between electrons, not physical contact.

If the earth was to be compressed to its ultimate limit ie a black hole with no space between atoms it would be the size of a 2cm marble!

 

[classic33]

Sigurd the Mighty, a formidable 9th century Viking earl of Orkney, met a bizarre and gruesome end that seems more fit for legend than history. After a victorious battle against a rival clan, Sigurd strapped the severed head of his enemy, Máel Brigte the Bucktoothed, to his horse as a trophy. However, as Sigurd rode across the battlefield, Máel Brigte's lifeless head swung back and forth, its protruding teeth grazing against the earl's leg.

The wound from the teeth became severely infected, likely due to the unsanitary conditions of the battlefield and the decaying head. Despite his power and reputation as a great warrior, Sigurd succumbed to the infection, his life cut short by the very enemy he had defeated.

 

[Conrad_K]

Boston singer, Tommy DeCarlo, is also lead singer...in a Boston tribute band.

Boston got screwed when they signed with Epic. They weren't making much better than burger-flipper wages even with a heavy tour schedule.

Their contract also said any band with two Boston members in it was de jure Boston, and would be covered by the same contract. Apparently they weren't able find a way out from under it, so that was the prime reason they stopped performing.

 

[T4tomo]

that's more than a feeling of being screwed over

 

[classic33]

In 2008, a peculiar town called Argleton appeared on Google Maps in Lancashire, England. Positioned between Aughton and Ormskirk, this phantom settlement sparked widespread curiosity when visitors found nothing but empty fields where the digital town should have been.

Google later attributed Argleton's existence to a data error from their third-party provider,
By early 2010, Argleton vanished from Google Maps as quietly as it had appeared.

 

[Beebo]

Despite being head of the Church of England, breaking with Rome and overthrowing the authority of the Pope, Henry 8th never became a Protestant.
He always regarded himself as Catholic, just not Roman Catholic.

 

[classic33]

There is a traffic light in Syracuse, New York that doesn’t follow the rules. Green is on top, red is on the bottom….and it’s definitely not a mistake. It’s a strong statement.

At the intersection of Tompkins Street and Milton Avenue, in a borough called Tipperary Hill. In the 1920s, this was a working-class Irish area, and when the city installed a standard red-over-green traffic signal, it didn’t go down well.

To the locals, red above green looked too much like the British flag lording over Ireland. So they started throwing rocks to smash the red lens. Over and over again. (they jokingly called them “Irish confetti.”)

Eventually, the city gave in. The light was flipped….green on top, red on the bottom…and in 1928, the state signed off on the arrangement.

 

[classic33]

Robert Louis Stevenson was high on cocaine when he wrote The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde.

 

[classic33]

Nikola Tesla's 1921 Pierce-Arrow electric car, was powered by pure etheric electricity. It was a self-charging car; it did not run on batteries, oil, or gas.