The word ‘zombie’ originated around 500BCE
Now that could possibly qualify as a weird fact, Frank having a song for every occasion… just goes to show how prolific a writer he was.
Weird fact: a company wants to create modern mammoths, by gene editing their genetic material into Indian elephants, so that they can then populate areas with specific types of trees that produce 100 times more oxygen than the trees that replaced them since the mammoths went extinct, due to the nature of their feeding and stomping habits.
Woolly mammoths died out around 4000 years ago.
Ted Bundy used to tell people he was writing a book to explain long absences.
The would “fuck” originated in England to first describe a bird. As in, look at how that fuck flies through the sky.
Author Charles Bukowski is so famous for telling other artists “Don’t Try” that they put in on his gravestone, and yet he is also quoted as saying, “If you’re going to try, go all the way.”
Author James Joyce wore a milk man’s uniform while writing so the sun would reflect off it.
The superbowl is watched by 100 million people and is considered the greatest spectacle by Americans while 600 million people around the world watch the average English Premier League (soccer) game.
Harry Potter was rejected by 11 publishers.
A computer makes a decision in a nano-second, which is a billionth of second and falls below the level of human perception. The human mind cannot conceive of how fast this is.
To be superstitious is a sin, in the Catholic church.
Religions always call other religions, superstitious.
Talking of the catholic church, in the dark ages, there was no discernment between good or bad witches and warlocks, they were indiscriminately burned at the stake.
The Udmurts, a Finno-Ugric people of Russia have the highest % of redheads of any people in the world, even higher than the Irish.
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The Chuvash, a Turkic people of Russia wear these headdresses made of beads and what appears to be coins:
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Wikipedia:
“The name Udmurt comes from *odo-mort ‘meadow people,’ where the first part represents the Permic root *od(o) ‘meadow, glade, turf, greenery’, and the second part murt means ‘person’ (cf. Komi mort, Mari mari), probably an early borrowing from an Iranian language (such as Scythian): *mertä or *martiya ‘person, man’ (cf. Persian mard), which is thought to have been borrowed from the Indo-Aryan term *maryá- ‘man’, literally ‘mortal, one who is bound to die’ (< PIE *mer- ‘to die’), compare Old Indic márya ‘young warrior’ and Old Indic marut ‘chariot warrior’, both connected specifically with horses and chariots.[6] This is supported by a document dated 1557, in which the Udmurts are referred to as lugovye lyudi ‘meadow people’, alongside the traditional Russian name otyaki.[7]”
Very nice National Costume and headdress they have…
Jay Z appreciates the Trump presidency.
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80% of the gold mined in Columbia, is illegally mined.
The DJIA is flat over Trump’s presidency.
Hospitalized coronavirus patients given hydroxychloroquine were 50 percent less likely to die of the brutal infection than those who did not receive the drug in a Henry Ford Health System study of 2,541 people.
In the 2005 Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District case, Judge Jones totally pwned Behe and the theory of irreducible complexity.