Random #394 – 50 Incredible Facts That Will Make You Think

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1 Hawking’s Final Multiverse Theory

Hawking's Final Multiverse Theory

Stephen Hawking completed a final multiverse theory explaining how mankind might detect parallel universes just 10 days before he died.


2. Columbia Pictures refused to greenlight the 1993 film Groundhog Day without explaining why Phil becomes trapped in the same day. Producer Trevor Albert and director Harold Ramis appeased the studio but deliberately placed the scenes too late in the shooting schedule to be filmed.


3. When Frank Zappa’s son was born, the nurse refused to register him with the name “Dweezil.” Zappa responded by listing the names of various musicians he knew, which subsequently became his son’s legal names. When Dweezil turned five, he asked to have his name legally changed to Dweezil, and his parents successfully did so.


4. Chemical crystals can spontaneously change around the world, spreading like a virus and preventing the synthesis of some pharmaceutical chemicals. This process, known as disappearing polymorphs, involves a crystal structure suddenly transforming into a different structure with the same chemical composition, often making it impossible to revert to the original form.


5. Queen Elizabeth I lost a lot of teeth from eating too many sweets, making it difficult for foreign ambassadors to understand her.


6 Queen Anne’s Multiple Pregnancies

Queen Anne's Multiple Pregnancies

Anne, Queen of Great Britain, had at least 17 pregnancies over a 17-year period, miscarrying or birthing stillborn children at least 12 times. Of her five liveborn children, four died before the age of two, and her sole surviving child, Prince William, Duke of Gloucester, died at the age of eleven.


7. American producer Evan Rogers discovered Rihanna in 2003 when he saw her performing with a girl group while he was on holiday. “The minute Rihanna walked into the room, it was like the other two girls didn’t exist,” he said.


8. Juicero, a company that produced a $699 juicer that required Wi-Fi, an app, and QR-coded produce packs, shut down soon after journalists found they could squeeze the packs by hand to achieve the same results.


9. China’s Hongzhi Emperor of the Ming Dynasty had only one wife and refused to have concubines after one of his father’s consorts murdered his mother.


10. Loyola University Chicago offers a scholarship that gives full tuition to students who are Catholic and have the last name Zolp.


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11 Joplin Tornado’s Fungal Outbreak

Joplin Tornado's Fungal Outbreak

After an F5 tornado tore through Joplin, Missouri, in 2011, a rare flesh-eating fungal infection known as ‘cutaneous necrotizing mucormycosis’ followed, infecting 13 and ultimately killing 5.


12. Astronauts on board the ISS need to sleep near a ventilator fan. Warm air does not rise in space, so astronauts in poorly ventilated sections end up surrounded by a bubble of carbon dioxide.


13. Actor Rick Moranis claims that the original script for the 1987 film Spaceballs described Dark Helmet as a single, enormous helmet. Subsequently, they reduced it to merely a heightened rendition of the Darth Vader helmet.


14. Louisiana State Penitentiary (“Angola”), the largest maximum-security prison in the USA, has a radio station, a TV station, a magazine, a fire station, sugarcane fields, market gardens, and herds of cattle and horses.


15. In his will, George Washington left directions to emancipate all the enslaved people he owned after Martha Washington died. On January 1, 1801, all the enslaved people he owned were freed. On January 1, 1863, 62 years later, the Emancipation Proclamation came into effect.


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16 Boseman’s Salary Share with Miller

Boseman's Salary Share with Miller

When the studio refused to meet Sienna Miller’s pay request to star in the film 21 Bridges, Chadwick Boseman gave her part of his salary to meet her number because he said, “That’s what you should be paid.”


17. Adele, the wife of mathematician Kurt Gödel, was working as a dancer at a cabaret when they first met. Aside from the continuing disapproval of his family, Adele faced rejection and isolation in the academic community, particularly when the couple settled at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study.


18. The 2011 film “The Worst Movie Ever!” unintentionally had the worst box office opening ever recorded. One single person paid admission to see the film during its premiere, earning it a whopping $11.


19. The famous quote “I fear we have awakened a sleeping giant,” attributed to Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto after the attack on Pearl Harbor, actually originated from the 1970 movie Tora! Tora! Tora! and was not something he said in real life.


20. Truman authorized a souvenir program during the White House reconstruction. It allowed members of the public to order old building pieces, such as timbers, bricks, facing stones, and paneling. Demand exceeded initial expectations, and receipts exceeded expenses by $10,000.


15 Most Controversial & Costly Blunders in History


21 Andy Oyler’s Muddy Home Run

Andy Oyler's Muddy Home Run

In 1905, a minor league baseball player named Andy Oyler hit a home run where the ball only traveled two feet. It had been raining, and he hit it into the mud right in front of him. The defense couldn’t find the ball before he rounded the bases.


22. Virgin queen bees emit battle cries and engage in combat until only one survives within the hive.


23. Henry Ford once set the world record for the fastest speed achieved on land. In 1904, he drove a Ford 999 on a frozen lake and reached a speed of 91.37 mph, despite hitting a bump in the ice that sent him airborne at one point. The record helped popularize Ford’s company.


24. The former president of Turkmenistan forbade news anchors, both men and women, from wearing makeup after learning he couldn’t distinguish between them when the presenters wore makeup.


25. Jim Varney caught the attention of Disney exec Michael Eisner at the Indy 500 in 1985 after appearing as “Ernest” and getting a much bigger reception than even Mickey Mouse, stunning Eisner. Varney had appeared in hundreds of commercials, but this led to his first movie, Ernest Goes to Camp.


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  1. RE: Fact #4 (Disappearing Polymorphs in Chemistry) – You know how labs can grow crystals with a specific structure? Sometimes they try to recreate that exact structure, but end up with something totally different. It’s happened with drugs too! There was a lawsuit over paroxetine because of this crystal issue, and even some life-saving drugs like ritonavir had to be pulled from shelves because of unexpected crystal changes.

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  2. RE: Fact #10 (Loyola’s Zolp Scholarship) – Hey, so the Wm. Zolp Scholarship is for Catholic students with the last name Zolp who are going to Loyola University Chicago. It helps pay for tuition! You’ll need to send your birth certificate and a baptismal or confirmation certificate to the Financial Aid Office to prove you’re Catholic and have the right last name. You need to be accepted to Loyola by February 1st to be eligible. The amount you get depends on how much money they have and how many people apply. If you’re a new freshman starting in the fall, you can apply online through the LUC Scholarship Connect [link] after January 1st. Just make sure you get your application in by March 1st. It’s not a full ride, but it can definitely help out!

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  3. RE: Fact #10 (Loyola’s Zolp Scholarship) – So, I work with academic funding, right? We have these old endowments, set up by people who wanted to make sure their money went to *specific* people. They put all these crazy rules on them – like, you had to live in a certain zip code or your parents had to be a doctor or something. It was all about making sure *their* friends or family got the scholarships, and they got the credit for the donation. The problem is, they set these endowments up to last forever. And changing the rules is a huge pain in the neck – you either need permission from every single person who donated to that fund, or you have to beg the state’s attorney general to change it. So we were stuck with these endowments that were practically useless, because we couldn’t find students who fit all the weird requirements. It’s been a long fight, but we finally got the attorney general to remove or change the rules on a lot of them. And now, my university won’t let people set up new endowments with those kinds of restrictions anymore. So hopefully we won’t have to deal with this mess again!

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      • So, endowments are basically this big pot of money that’s invested, and the interest is what we use for the stuff they’re supposed to be for. The main pot can’t be touched, but the interest can – but only for the exact thing the endowment agreement says. That’s why we have some scholarships that just keep getting bigger and bigger with nobody to give them to. It’s like they’re stuck in limbo! We need to find a way to change the rules or match them with the right students so we can actually use this money. It’s super frustrating to see people who could really benefit from scholarships but can’t get their hands on this cash because of the way these endowments are set up.

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    • Hey, I actually worked in academia, too, and even have an M.Ed. So, trust me, I get really annoyed when people online and in the news go crazy about how “rich” colleges are because of their endowments. Yeah, some of those endowments are huge, but the rule is you can’t just take the money out! And you have to spend it the way the person who donated it wanted. Like, imagine having a $5 million endowment that can only be given to Home Ec majors—useless if there’s no more Home Ec department, right? So the money just sits there, while the school has to take out a loan to build a parking garage.

      That’s why I made sure the scholarship I set up at my husband’s old school after he died can be used for anything good for the whole university after a while, if it can’t be used the way I planned. I don’t think that will ever happen since it’s for older students coming back to school, which is a big group there, but I didn’t want the money to just sit there useless.

      And if you still don’t get it, just Google “fund accounting.” It basically means that the law says you can only spend money from a specific source on things that are related to that source. A lot of non-profits work this way. Think about it like this—a grant to study armadillos can’t be used to fix the roof, and your donation to the theater department can’t be spent on science stuff.

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  4. RE: Fact #21 (Andy Oyler’s Muddy Home Run) – You know, were those guys totally hammered? I mean, it was 1905, so it wouldn’t be a huge surprise.

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  5. RE: Fact #23 (Henry Ford’s Speed Record) – Holy cow, Ford 999 was crazy fast! I can’t believe those pictures.

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  6. RE: Fact #9 (Hongzhi Emperor’s Monogamous Lifestyle) – Being a prince or princess in imperial China? That must have been super stressful, with all those step-parents and half-siblings trying to off you.

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  7. RE: Fact #17 (Adele Gödel’s Cabaret Background) – He was so dependent on his wife, he wouldn’t eat anything she didn’t cook because he was scared of getting poisoned. She got sick and had to go to the hospital, and he ended up starving to death.

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    • My grandpa kind of gave up on eating after Grandma passed away. We figured he was bummed out at first, but then we realized he’d forgotten how to cook! He hadn’t done it in, like, forever, 70 years!

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    • Wow, that’s crazy!

      Okay, now I gotta read up on this guy. Brilliant mathematician, tortured soul. Something deep inside me loves stories about the price of greatness.

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    • You’d think cooking for yourself would get rid of that fear, right? It’s weird how he was super logical in some ways but not in others.

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  8. RE: Fact #18 (Worst Movie Ever’s Box Office) – So, basically, his friend let him show his film in a theater for one showing, right? Everyone involved got in for free, but then this random person decided to pay for a ticket? Weird!

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    • So, the Screen Actors Guild has these rules for low-budget movies, right? They let you pay actors less if the movie gets a US release, even if it’s just a tiny one. Some movies take advantage of that by renting out a single theater for a single showing. They don’t even bother advertising because they’re not trying to sell tickets, they just want to meet the union’s requirement.

      Maybe their real goal is to release the movie in foreign markets or something. That’s where they’ll spend their money and push sales.

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      • The idea is to sell it to a company that sells tons of movies to streaming services. Back in the day, you could make a killing by buying up foreign films nobody would ever see, adding subtitles, and then selling them to Netflix.

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    • Apparently, the film only sold one ticket all weekend! And nobody even showed up on Friday. Talk about a slow start! One theater, two showings, and just one ticket sold – ouch!

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  9. RE: Fact #13 (Dark Helmet’s Original Concept) – Just a helmet? We’d end up with a Dalek, and that’s a whole different story!

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    • That’s how they got their power and influence – by making deals with officials, emperors, and the royal family. Having your kid as the next in line to be emperor, or being the emperor’s mom, gave you a lot of power. Plus, concubines usually came from powerful noble families, so they were fighting for their family’s position, too.

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      • Unless you were in one of those early northern dynasties, you know, the ones where China was all broken up? I can’t remember exactly which ones, but I remember learning that they’d kill the heir’s mother right after he became king. I can’t even remember if it was a religious thing or just a way to stop those powerful empress dowagers from taking over. They always dragged their families into power, which could really mess up the imperial family’s influence.

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  10. RE: Fact #7 (Rihanna’s Discovery by Rogers) – You know, she’s got this amazing voice that just fits anything she sings. It’s a bummer she hasn’t put out a new album in almost nine years, though.

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    • It’s been eight years, five months, and zero days, according to that Popjustice.com sidebar they’ve been keeping track of! 😅

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  11. RE: Fact #5 (Queen Elizabeth I’s Dental Issues) – I wish they’d put more realism like that in historical dramas, you know?

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  12. RE: Fact #12 (ISS Astronauts’ Ventilation Necessity) – You wouldn’t believe how many things that seem totally normal on Earth become huge problems in space. It’s crazy how some things that seem insignificant here have to be figured out completely differently up there.

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    • You know, I really wonder if they thought about this before we started sending people into space, or if we just figured it out as we went along.

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  13. RE: Fact #19 (Misattributed Yamamoto Quote Origin) – That movie is totally awesome! It’s a phenomenal picture.

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  14. RE: Fact #14 (Angola Prison’s Self-Sufficient Community) – It’s kinda weird how they call it a “former slave plantation” but then talk about how it’s still being used the same way.

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  15. RE: Fact #23 (Henry Ford’s Speed Record) – That 18.5-liter four-cylinder engine? Those pistons were probably the size of paint cans!

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  16. RE: Fact #14 (Angola Prison’s Self-Sufficient Community) – You know, I think they used to have an inmate rodeo every year, up until not too long ago.

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    • They still have the rodeo, and it’s always got a cool craft fair going on with it. You can find all sorts of stuff there – woodworking, leather, jewelry, art, the whole shebang. It’s pretty neat how the inmates can sell their stuff, they’re behind a fence but they’ll try and catch your eye to show you what they made. I actually really enjoyed the rodeo, I was a little hesitant at first but it turned out to be a lot of fun. The whole craft fair thing, the horse riding, it all seemed to really help the inmates with their mental health. They work on the rodeos all year long, it’s a big deal. Angola’s where they send the guys who did some serious stuff, long sentences and all that. Oh, and my library used to get “The Angolite” – it’s this magazine put together by the inmates, really interesting stuff in there.

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  17. RE: Fact #8 (Juicero Juicer Hand-Squeezing Debacle) – Ugh, this is just bad. Doug Evans, the founder/CEO, first pushed “Raw Water” and now he’s all about sprouts being the miracle cure for everything. He’s a real charmer, but people still buy into his hype.

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  18. RE: Fact #25 (Jim Varney’s Disney Breakthrough) – He was bombarded with commercials, but one chance encounter totally changed his life – he became a movie star! Sometimes you just never know what’s going to happen, right?

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    • People like to say it was all about “right time, right place,” but honestly, Eisner was just the first one to realize how big Mickey Mouse could be. He made a ton of commercials with the character – over 100! It was only a matter of time before someone tried to go national. He just got lucky that it was someone who knew what they were doing and could make it a success.

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  19. RE: Fact #19 (Misattributed Yamamoto Quote Origin) – Yeah, it makes sense, right? I mean, why would a top admiral go through all the trouble of planning this massive surprise attack, only to turn around and say “oops, our bad”? That’s a surefire way to get the boot.

    If I remember correctly, the Japanese leadership actually asked the Americans how much stuff they were making before the attack. When they heard the numbers, they thought it was ridiculous and laughed it off, saying it was way too high. Turns out, it was way too low! I can see them saying that kind of stuff, but not the admiral.

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    • If I recall correctly, Yamamoto was like, “This is a terrible idea! We shouldn’t do this, it’s going to blow up in our faces! I warned you!”

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  20. RE: Fact #26 (Wisconsin’s “Badger State” Origin) – C.H.U.D., right? Those cannibalistic underground dwellers. Classic 80s horror movie! Maybe someone could make an article about it, that would be cool.

    And hey, bonus badger video!

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  21. RE: Fact #2 (Groundhog Day’s Studio Deception) – Phil was a real downer, stuck in a time loop until he figured out how to chill. I’m glad they kept it simple, no need for deep stuff.

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    • I really appreciated that the filmmakers trusted us to figure out why Phil’s stuck in the loop, you know? They didn’t just spell it out for us. I guess some people need a little more hand-holding, but it didn’t bother me at all. Loved the movie!

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    • You know, sometimes a movie will just throw in a supernatural thing as a reason for the story to happen. And the more they explain about it, the less it’s about how the characters are dealing with it and more about the weird stuff itself.

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  22. RE: Fact #3 (Dweezil Zappa’s Name Change) – So, Dweezil got a cease and desist letter from the trust after he said he had to call his tour “Dweezil Zappa Plays Frank Zappa” instead of “Zappa Plays Zappa.” He wasn’t too happy about it, so he just renamed the whole thing “50 Years of Frank: Dweezil Zappa Plays Whatever the F@%k He Wants—the Cease and Desist Tour.”

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  23. RE: Fact #11 (Joplin Tornado’s Fungal Outbreak) – You wouldn’t believe this, but mucormycosis was a HUGE problem for soldiers injured in Iraq and Afghanistan. Imagine getting hit by an IED, with shrapnel and dirt getting stuck in your wound. This fungus would just eat away at it, especially since they were already weakened from blood loss and the trauma. A foot injury could quickly turn into an amputation, and even then, the fungus could keep eating away, forcing them to chop off more and more of their leg. It was truly awful.

    If you want to know more, check out this link: [link]

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    • Dirt is full of stuff that can really mess you up. That’s why tetanus shots are so important, that nasty bacteria is everywhere!

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  24. RE: Fact #24 (Turkmenistan News Anchors’ Makeup Ban) – He even banned car radios, saying they were useless. Talk about a weirdo!

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  25. RE: Fact #17 (Adele Gödel’s Cabaret Background) – Maybe they just thought her name was a bit too much. Adele Gödel? Come on.

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  26. RE: Fact #10 (Loyola’s Zolp Scholarship) – My friend in college was a total scholarship ninja! She dug up every single grant and scholarship she could possibly qualify for, no matter how random. Like, she was a female athlete, her dad’s a cop, her grandparents are from some tiny town in Poland, and she was a Girl Scout…you name it! We all thought she was going a little overboard applying for everything, but when the checks started rolling in, we all had to admit she was a genius!

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  27. RE: Fact #3 (Dweezil Zappa’s Name Change) – You won’t believe this, but his real name is Ian Donald Calvin Euclid Zappa! According to his own words “The nurse wouldn’t let Gail leave the delivery room until she had a name for the birth certificate. She was in labor, and I didn’t want her to suffer any longer, so I just blurted out a bunch of names of guys we knew: Ian, Donald, Calvin, Euclid. The nurse thought it was fine, so that’s what ended up on the official document!”

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  28. RE: Fact #25 (Jim Varney’s Disney Breakthrough) – He was so great in the Beverly Hillbillies movie! His Jeb was just perfect, really brought the whole thing to life.

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  29. RE: Fact #9 (Hongzhi Emperor’s Monogamous Lifestyle) – His mom had a rough life. She was a Yao girl, a slave captured by the Ming dynasty, and ended up working in the Imperial palace. She was smart and climbed the ranks, eventually getting a job in the emperor’s private treasury. That’s where she met Chenghua, and got pregnant. The article thinks she might have been killed by Lady Wan to get rid of her, especially since Hongzhi was likely to become emperor.

    Chenghua was a pretty bad emperor. He never got a proper education, because his dad, Tianshun, was captured by the Mongols after making some really bad choices.

    So, Chenghua was basically ignored, and no one thought he’d be emperor. But Lady Wan, who was 15 years older, actually cared about him. She became like a mom to him, and he made her his concubine when he became crown prince again after his dad came back from Mongolia.

    It’s kinda Freudian, the whole thing with his dad and Lady Wan, and it makes for a really interesting story. But since there’s not much information, it’s all up to psychologists to imagine what really happened.

    And guess what? Hongzhi turned out to be one of the best Ming emperors ever! I’d put him right after Yongle. It’s hard to compare him to Zhu Yuanzhang because he was so unique, but Hongzhi is generally considered a good emperor, even though he had a tough start.

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  30. RE: Fact #24 (Turkmenistan News Anchors’ Makeup Ban) – You mean, is that the place where everyone’s cars have to be white?

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    • I thought she was going to be a one-hit wonder after “Umbrella,” then she dropped “Man Down.” I was like, “Okay, one other decent song, that’s it.” She had a few more hits, and I was kind of like, “Maybe she just got lucky.” Then she made “Love On The Brain,” and I was like, “Whoa, I owe this woman an apology!”

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      • She had already had a string of hits with “Pon De Replay,” “SOS,” and “Unfaithful” before “Umbrella” even came out. By that time, she was way past being a one-hit wonder!

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  31. RE: Fact #23 (Henry Ford’s Speed Record) – No way someone would drive that fast back then! You’d be toast if you crashed.

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      • You know, I was born way back in ’74. My brother and I were total wild kids in the car, always jumping around and wrestling in the backseat. We never wore seatbelts until we were a little older. One time, we were driving home from a family vacation in Carolina. We were in our dad’s station wagon, and we decided to fold down the back seat – just like that, it became our own little party space! We even set up those lowrider beach chairs and rode all the way back to PA like that. I mean, imagine if there was a sudden stop – we would have gone flying right through the windshield! The craziest thing is that my dad eventually turned into Mr. Safety. He was always telling me to be careful and stuff.

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  32. RE: Fact #22 (Queen Bees’ Battle Cries) – Usually, the first queen out of her cell will just sting the other queens still in their cells, so it’s not as dramatic as you might think.

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      • Hey, I’m a beekeeper, so I know a thing or two about these guys!

        Basically, worker bees have these stingers that are all barbed and get stuck when they sting something. It’s super brutal – the stinger rips out of their body along with the poison sac, and they die. But the poison sac keeps pumping venom into the wound to make it even worse.

        Think about it – an insect’s exoskeleton is like a brittle shell, it shatters more than tears. It’s like driving a knife through chocolate, not meat.

        Now, queen bees don’t have those barbed stingers, because, well, they’re the most important bee in the hive! It wouldn’t be a good idea for them to have a suicidal evolutionary trait.

        And about multiple queens? It’s a bit of a weird system. Every female bee can technically lay eggs, but workers can only lay unfertilized ones, which only produce drones. Drones are basically lazy bums who just eat and get busy, even when the hive is starving.

        Queen bees, though, can lay both fertilized and unfertilized eggs. The fertilized ones are the workers.

        The whole bee population thing is about swarming. When a hive gets too crowded, the queen lays another queen. Once the new queen hatches, the old queen takes half the hive and leaves to start a new one. Then it’s rinse and repeat.

        But sometimes, the queen might be defective, not laying eggs right, or giving off bad pheromones, you know? The bees are smart, so they take action. They kill the queen and make some new ones. But they also make multiple queens as backups, just in case. The first one to hatch kills the others, and then it’s business as usual.

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  33. RE: Fact #21 (Andy Oyler’s Muddy Home Run) – I’m not sure if a super long home run is more impressive than a really short one. 🤔

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      • I mean, there are different reasons. Furthest is all about strength and luck, but I’m not really sure what Shortest shows off, but knowing it’s only two feet makes me feel good!

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  34. RE: Fact #4 (Disappearing Polymorphs in Chemistry) – You know, drug developers have learned the hard way: don’t mess with metastable polymorphs! It’s a big no-no. I’m in the industry, so I get it. 😄

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    • You know, a lot of drugs and their building blocks probably have these unstable forms. It would make more sense to just avoid relying on those unstable structures that could easily change back to a more stable form.

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  35. RE: Fact #11 (Joplin Tornado’s Fungal Outbreak) – Ugh, worst day ever! I just graduated college and we were celebrating Mom’s birthday in a town near Joplin.

    My family are all first responders, so after the storms hit, we went in to help. A bunch of people took shelter in the Walmart on Range Line, but the back wall collapsed and there were a lot of bodies piled up. It was also Joplin High’s graduation day, and there was this guy at a first aid station who was in shock. He wouldn’t take treatment and wouldn’t let go of this shoe, a Nike sneaker I think. My best friend, who’s an EMT, tried to take it from him, but the guy attacked him! Turns out he was driving his son home from graduation when the storm hit, and it sucked his son out the car window. He was holding onto his son’s legs to try to keep him from flying away. They found his son a few miles away in a field.

    Sorry for the heavy stuff, but just wanted to remind everyone to give your loved ones a hug!

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    • You know, this whole thing reminded me of something that happened to me. I was supposed to be in Joplin during that storm, but my flight to Tulsa got delayed. When I finally landed, my phone was blowing up with family checking in. Turns out the hotel I was supposed to stay at was completely wrecked. My three buddies were staying there too, and they drove all the way to pick me up because my flight was delayed. If it hadn’t been, they would have been in the hotel too!

      We ended up staying at OCC because we had some people we knew there. The town was in shambles. I’ll never forget it. We spent a week helping with the cleanup and those images really stuck with me. I couldn’t sleep for a while after that.

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  36. RE: Fact #16 (Boseman’s Salary Share with Miller) – From everything I’ve heard, Boseman was a truly great guy. RIP.

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  37. RE: Fact #8 (Juicero Juicer Hand-Squeezing Debacle) – Okay, so the WiFi and the whole idea behind the Juicero were kind of dumb. And the machine itself? Ridiculously expensive! They went way overboard with the engineering, you know?

    Ben Einstein, a venture capitalist, thought the press was “a super complicated piece of engineering” but that all that complexity was unnecessary. He thinks they just didn’t have a budget in mind when they designed it. Apparently, they built it like a commercial-grade food machine, meant for heavy use every day, not like a regular appliance. Einstein thinks a simpler, cheaper design would have made the same great juice, just for a few hundred bucks less.

    Yeah, the cheaper machine might not last as long as the Juicero, but it would still probably last for years, maybe even decades. It’s like my food processor at home versus the fancy one I use at work. The one at home is way cheaper, because I don’t need it to run for hours every day like the one at work. I only use it for twenty minutes a week!

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    • You know that teardown video I saw? They said the part that presses the packet was made from solid aluminum! That’s crazy! I wonder if you could get the same results with some wood and threaded steel rod?

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    • What blew my mind was that it’s not even a real juicer! It just squishes a pouch that’s already got the juice and fruit bits in it.

      Seriously, why even bother? You could just squeeze the pouch yourself and get the same thing!

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    • You know, that’s why those fancy gym treadmills are so expensive – they’re built to handle anything! You can get one on Amazon for cheap, but those are more for home use, not for the serious gym stuff.

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