Random Thursday

 

Time to learn more totally unthemed intriguing facts from Shane Carley's True Facts That Sound Like Bull$#*t! What bizarre and unbelievably weird facts will we learn today?

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Did you know that Astroglide Lube was originally going to be the name for a space shuttle coolant?

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Did you know the Cornish word for "breath" is "anal?"

That's ass-backwards! Lol. Sorry, couldn't resist!

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Vantablack is the darkest substance in the known universe. It absorbs 99.965% of all visible light.

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Isaac Newton wrote hundreds and hundreds of pages trying to prove that 1+1=2. Hundreds of pages in his Principia Mathematica are dedicated to proving the simplest of mathematical equations.

That's devotion right there!

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A cat once inherited $12.5 million!

I mean...who then manages the money for the cat? And does he leave it behind before he's about to go?