Post up facts and things that hardly anyone knows...... (for entertainment purposes only. NO need to fact check)

[68BabyBlue]

The world’s rarest hair and eye color combo is red hair and blue eyes.​

Like red '69 GTXs with pewter interior. I'm aware of four in the last 50 years, and I owned one of them. Never saw one in the wild.

First girl I dated in 1970 was a redhead with brown eyes. I always thought that had to be really rare, combination of dominant and recessive genes. Her dad was a redhead with green eyes, mother brunette with brown eyes. Destiny that I drove my red GTX with saddle tan interior that same year.

 

[DeltaV]

The Beatles’ “A Day in the Life” Features a Whistle Only Dogs Can Hear​

Back in 2013, the Beatles’ Paul McCartney revealed a little canine-related trick the band had included on their seminal 1967 album, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. At the end of the album’s final track, “A Day in the Life,” the Fab Four added a tone pitched at 15 kilohertz, making the sound audible to dogs but difficult to hear for most humans. The tone was reportedly added at the request of John Lennon, who asked producer George Martin to dub in the high-pitched frequency. “We’d talk for hours about these frequencies below the sub that you couldn’t really hear and the high frequencies that only dogs could hear,” McCartney explained. “If you ever play Sgt. Pepper, watch your dog.”

 

[Photon440]

Transparent Aluminum, the stuff mentioned in Star Trek, is real.

Going under the trade name ALON, it is a mixture of aluminum, oxygen and nitrogen. Its uses include armoured windows for aviation and military uses; being almost as hard as diamond, it resists scratches, and where a .50 cal bullet can penetrate traditional armoured glass up to 3.7", a laminated pane of ALON 1.6″ will stop it.

It's lighter than glass, and future uses likely will include car windows and cel. phone screens, although it's currently quite expensive.
Transparent Aluminum | Strength, Clarity & Applications

 

[DeltaV]

Al Capone played banjo in an Alcatraz prison band.​

 

[DeltaV]

Some worker ants don’t work.​

Some worker ants don’t work.

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And I've been hard at work this summer making sure the fire ants have adequate doses of Orthene.

 

[DeltaV]

The synthetic voice that Stephen Hawking used in the second half of his life was modeled after the real-life voice of a scientist named Dennis Klatt. In the 1970s and 1980s, Klatt developed text-to-speech systems that were unprecedentedly intelligible, able to capture the subtle ways we pronounce not merely words, but whole sentences. The “Perfect Paul” voice that Klatt created was arguably one of the most recognizable voices of the 20th century.

 

[DeltaV]

Scorpion venom is among the most expensive liquids on the market.​

 

[Detective D]

Evian water.
Naive spelled backwards.

Costs more per gallon than gasoline, upwards of $11/gallon

 

[Kern Dog]

It is ironic that you can buy a case of 24 1 liter bottles of water at the grocery store for under $5 but then pay over a dollar each for a bottle at a sporting event, car show, swap meet or anyplace away from home.

 

[DeltaV]

The world’s oldest bread loaf is more than 8,000 years old.​

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However, the world's oldest Twinkie is more than 12,000 years old.

 

[Dipstick]

It is ironic that you can buy a case of 24 1 liter bottles of water at the grocery store for under $5 but then pay over a dollar each for a bottle at a sporting event, car show, swap meet or anyplace away from home.

It's called Capitalism.

 

[Kern Dog]

I don't need your "wisdom" to rationalize this or anything else.

 

[DeltaV]

Apollo 12 left a piece of art on the moon.​

When Apollo 12 departed Kennedy Space Center on November 14, 1969, the spacecraft was carrying a tiny artwork titled “Moon Museum” — albeit unknowingly to the astronauts aboard. The piece was a ceramic tile measuring less than an inch, inscribed with designs from six contemporary artists. However, the idea was never sanctioned by NASA, and “Moon Museum” had to be smuggled into space.


“Moon Museum” was the brainchild of concept artist Forrest Myers, who collaborated with artists Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, David Novros, Robert Rauschenberg, and John Chamberlain. Each artist sketched a unique image on the tile. Warhol signed his initials in the upper left, forming the shape of a phallic rocket; Rauschenberg drew a line next to it, and Novros created a black square in the upper right. From left to right on the bottom row, Myers added an interlocking drawing, Oldenburg sketched Mickey Mouse, and Chamberlain drew an image based on a circuitry diagram.

Myers tried to get NASA’s approval to stow “Moon Museum” aboard the Saturn V rocket, but was met with radio silence. He then contacted an anonymous NASA engineer known today as John F. to help smuggle the artwork into space. The employee responded two days before launch, stating, “YOUR [sic] ON A.O.K. ALL SYSTEMS GO.” It’s believed “Moon Museum” was covertly attached to the lunar module and deposited on the moon during landing, though it’s impossible to confirm without sending another mission back to check.

 

[DeltaV]

Pvt. Paul Douglas, at age 50 was the oldest recruit in the history of Parris Island, and went on to become a purple heart.

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Pvt. Paul Douglas performs rifle qualification aboard Marine Corps Recruit Depot S.C., 1942 (Official Marine Corps Photo courtesy of the Parris Island History Museum).