That third list is how you can describe high int low wisdom.
Smart enough to get there devices to move, not wise enough to have any safety precautions.
Whoooa, I already knew about Franz Reichelt, but never knew there was actual footage of the test jump. That’s almost straight up NSFL, if not for the old timey camera making it hard to see anything.
The list of common misconceptions was really interesting. Thanks!
Absolutely awesome page. I’ve just spent half an hour reading it and will be back to it.
I don’t know if it’s the absolute best, but the page for the band The Butthole Surfers is pretty excellent.
In 1986, they first met Lynch (a.k.a. Kathleen, a.k.a. Ta-Da the Shit Lady), who was then working at a strip club called Sex World in New York City.[75] Though never an official member, she became Butthole Surfers’ famous “naked dancer”, performing intermittently with them through 1989.[9] One show in Washington, D.C., with GWAR saw Kathleen take the stage to dance in nothing but gold body paint and antique wooden snow shoes. At another particularly wild concert in 1986, Haynes and Lynch, by now completely bald, reportedly engaged in sexual intercourse while on stage, as Leary used a screwdriver to vandalize the club’s speakers. This came after only five songs, during which time Haynes had started a small fire.
Their finances and how God damn much money they blow every year
It was taken down years ago, but for a while the entry for the song Regulate, by Warren G and Nate Dogg, used to feature a recitation of the story events done in the flowery prose style of a fancy Victorian English gentleman. It was a masterpiece.
Quantum mechanics. Quantum entanglement will blow your intuitive mind.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Norwegian_black_metal_scene?wprov=sfla1
It’s a tad morbid. I didn’t know most of the details about this in/famous era. Read on Dead and Euronymous too if you can. These guys were nuts. Mind blowing to think all this happened only 25 - 30 years ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wreck_of_the_Titan%3A_Or%2C_Futility?wprov=sfla1
The novel that was published 17 years before the Titanic sank, about a ship that sank, named Titan. The details are creepily accurate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1775–1795_in_Western_fashion?wprov=sfla1
1775 - 1795 Western fashion, aka Marie Antoinette dominating & influencing the whole scene. It seems everything she did became a new trend and she had the eye for it too. Cool read if you’re into fashion history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somerton_Man?wprov=sfla1
Somerton Man, a death surrounded by mystery. There are some recent findings about the mans identity, still fun to read.
I can’t pick one thing and my idea of entertainment might be slightly morbid so sue me.
IP Over Avian Carrier: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=IP_over_Avian_Carriers&oldid=1073581154 (old version before certain revisions were made to make it more sensible)
And the other April fools RFCs: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools'_Day_Request_for_Comments
I have actually spent hours reading this one:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Star_Wars_characters
Not so much entertaining as it is “WTF!? Why doesn’t anyone talk about this!?”
It’s not entertaining, but it is interesting.
