I love learning random intersting tidbits of information. Let's share our knowledge with each other! Anythign counts! It could be silly, serious, big, or small.
FUN FACT!:
Sylvester Graham invented the graham cracker in 1880 because he believed that a bland, low sugar diet would prevent people from sin. He thought it would help people live in a more Godly way. Here's a short video about the topic.
Your turn!
Daniel Sickles, general of the ill-fated III corps at Gettysburg had previously been a congressman. He was arrested for murdering the grandson of Francis Scott Key because Key was fooling around with Sickles' wife. Sickles became the first person to plead "Temporary insanity" and beat the charges because of it.
Side note: After an argument with General Meade over his position on the battleline at Gettysburg, Sickles lost his leg to cannon fire as the III corps was being wiped out. He jumped onto a train WITH HIS SEVERED LEG and rode it back to Washington DC to report on how he thought Meade was incompetent. He donated his severed leg to the National Museum of Health and Medicine. He used to visit his leg from time to time. It's still on display there.
DONATED HIS LEG. Well that is a fun fact! Maybe I'll go see his leg someday, say hi.
The guy who developed the Atari game console also founded the Chuck E. Cheese chain.
Oh my gosh, I used to go to Chuck E Cheese all the time as a kid haha.
The Anglerfish (My favorite deep-sea creature) have one of the wildest mating systems on the planet. The male permanently fuses into the female’s body.
He latches on, his tissues merge with hers, and he eventually becomes nothing but a pair of gonads she carries around for life.
Yes!!! i'm obsessed with deep ocean creatures. The nature documentaries about stuff in the ocean are so fun to watch!
Personally I love this thing, the telescope fish:
beautiful.
@xXMissParamourXx
ooo very interesting! So funny looking, looks like he just woke up confused LOL.
Me when my alarm goes off.
after completing a level in a game, you might see the nintendo character mario hold up a peace sign. turns out it's not a peace sign at all! it's meant to represent the hand gesture "V for Victory," established in the 1940s by Belgian politician Victor de Laveleye before being popularized by Winston Churchill during WWII.
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