Really TRUE odd factoids

[Dave7]

Norman Greenbaum of Spirit in The Sky fame apparently made at least $2M from the royalties to that song as he was the sole writer and kept all rights. He is still coining it in all these years later.
Opposite to that are a number of groups/singers that got next to nothing from massive hits.....mainly because of bad advice/management eg The Verve that wrote and recorded Bitter Sweet Symphony. They used some rifts from a Rolling Stones record, we're sued and had to forego 100% of the royalties to Jagger and Richards (J and R did give them a pittance as a gesture many years later).

 

[cisamcgu]

Humans have been around for 300,000 years. For 290,000 years every single human had brown eyes. Blue eyes come from a genetic mutation that's been tracked back to one solitary person living near the Black Sea 10,000 years ago.

Interesting, and now has been superseded by new findings :

From Wiki (eye colour)

"In 2008, a team of researchers from the University of Copenhagen located a single mutation that causes the phenomenon of blue eyes. The research was published in the Journal of Human Genetics. The same DNA sequence of the OCA2 gene among blue-eyed people suggests they may have a single common ancestor. The researchers hypothesized that the OCA2 mutation responsible for blue eyes arose in an individual who lived in the northwestern part of the Black Sea region in Europe sometime between 6,000 and 10,000 years ago, during the Neolithic period.[47][48] However, more recent ancient DNA research has identified human remains much older than the Neolithic period which possess the OCA2 mutation for blue eyes. It is now believed that the OCA2 allele responsible for blue eyes dates back to the migration of modern humans out of Africa roughly 50,000 years ago, and entered Europe from western Asia.[15]"

 

[Dave7]

The dot above the letter i or j is called a tittle.

 

[colly]

Apparently we have enough iron in our (average) body to make one 2 inch nail.

And that can be retrieved from your bottom.
Apparently.

 

[Dave7]

And that can be retrieved from your bottom.
Apparently.

That would make your eyes water.

 

[swee'pea99]

 

[DaveReading]

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No sh1t !

 

[Andy in Germany]

Turkish pilot Sabiha Gökçen, (1913-2001) was the "First female fighter pilot" in history she's held internationally as a role model: Istanbul international airport is named after her, she is in the Guinness Book of Records, has multiple honours, including some from the US Air Force, who included her as "one of the 50 greatest aviators in history" and on 22 March 2009 a Google Doodle commemorated her birthday in Turkey.

According to Wikipedia:

"Gökçen became the world's first woman combat pilot after taking part in military operations during the Dersim massacre, in which she carpet-bombed civilians and massacred survivors with machine guns."

 

[Punkawallah]

History is written by the winners.

 

[PeteXXX]

Spoiler: To keep costs low, some Star Trek scenes were actually filmed on earth.

 

[Andy in Germany]

History is written by the winners.

True, but was she the best role model they could find?

 

[Punkawallah]

True, but was she the best role model they could find?

IDK. You’d have to talk to the Turks about that one.

 

[Andy in Germany]

IDK. You’d have to talk to the Turks about that one.

Or the US air force...

 

[Punkawallah]

Or the US air force...

The US Air Force are noted for their inability to distinguish between friend and foe. The quote that sticks is “When the Germans fly over, the British duck. When the British fly over, the Germans duck. When the Americans fly over, -everybody- ducks”.

 

[Dave7]

If you hold the sole of your foot to your ear you can hear the sound of your hip dislocating.