Post an obscure and pointless fact

[FineFan]

on August 16,1977...41yrs ago today...
The King went home.
PLAY IT LOUD TODAY....
Elvis Presley

...Yes Elvis "the King of Rock and Roll," and Aretha Franklin "the Queen of Soul" died on August 16th.

 

[Runwildboys]

...Yes Elvis "the King of Rock and Roll," and Aretha Franklin "the Queen of Soul" died on August 16th.

When did MJ die? That would have been eerie, wouldn't it? If I were a singer, I'd be like, "No, don't call me the King, Prince, Knight, or Jester of anything!!!"

 

[cowboyec]

When did MJ die? That would have been eerie, wouldn't it? If I were a singer, I'd be like, "No, don't call me the King, Prince, Knight, or Jester of anything!!!"

and Babe Ruth...the Sultan of Swat...also died on 8/16.

 

[cowboyec]

Cowboys DT Jethro Pugh had 2 safeties in his career.
75

 

[timb2]

...Yes Elvis "the King of Rock and Roll," and Aretha Franklin "the Queen of Soul" died on August 16th.

 

[timb2]

In 1923, jockey Frank Hayes won a race at Belmont Park in New York despite being dead — he suffered a heart attack mid-race, but his body stayed in the saddle until his horse crossed the line for a 20–1 outsider victory.

 

[timb2]

A family of people with blue skin lived in Kentucky for many generations. The Fulgates of Troublesome Creek are thought to have gained their blue skin through combination of inbreeding and a rare genetic condition known as methemoglobinemia.

 

[timb2]

The katzenklavier ("cat piano") was a musical instrument made out of cats. Designed by 17th-century German scholar Athanasius Kircher, it consisted of a row of caged cats with different voice pitches, who could be "played" by a keyboardist driving nails into their tails.

 

[Runwildboys]

The katzenklavier ("cat piano") was a musical instrument made out of cats. Designed by 17th-century German scholar Athanasius Kircher, it consisted of a row of caged cats with different voice pitches, who could be "played" by a keyboardist driving nails into their tails.

Was he a pen pal of the Marquis de Sade?

 

[timb2]

The Romans used to clean and whiten their teeth with urine. Apparently it works. Please don't do it, though.

 

[timb2]

Tsutomu Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima for work when the first A-bomb hit, made it home to Nagasaki for the second, and lived to be 93.

 

[timb2]

New Mexico State's first graduating class in 1893 had only one student—and he was shot and killed before graduation.

 

[timb2]

How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop? The world may never know. But on average, a Licking Machine made at Purdue needed 364.

 

[timb2]

Sea Otters holds hands while they sleep so they won't drift apart.

 

[YosemiteSam]

A family of people with blue skin lived in Kentucky for many generations. The Fulgates of Troublesome Creek are thought to have gained their blue skin through combination of inbreeding and a rare genetic condition known as methemoglobinemia.

Drows. Or some call them Dark Elves.

 

[YosemiteSam]

The Romans used to clean and whiten their teeth with urine. Apparently it works. Please don't do it, though.

Actually, there are a few people I want to watch try this.

 

[SlammedZero]

A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.

 

[Runwildboys]

A Planck time is even smaller: https://curiosity.com/topics/planck...-light-to-travel-one-planck-length-curiosity/

 

[FineFan]

A Planck time is even smaller: https://curiosity.com/topics/planck...-light-to-travel-one-planck-length-curiosity/

Of course it's derived by high mathematics, I like this part>
" Getting back to Planck time specifically, here's an easier way to imagine just how small it really is: There are more units of Planck time in one second than all the seconds since the Big Bang." Now that's is amazing!

 

[cowboyec]

Cowboys DE Ed"too tall"Jones had 9 blocks(fgs,xtra pts,etc..) over his career.
Too Tall