Just the Facts

* Eternal Reefs, a Florida based company, is helping to rehab and rebuild degraded and dying reefs. At the very same time they’re making the dying wishes of us let's-be-one-with-the-planet types come true.

An Eternal Reef is part of a designed reef system created from individual reef balls made of environmentally safe, marine grade concrete that quickly assimilate into the natural ocean environment. These permanent memorials placed on the ocean floor create new marine habitats for fish and other forms of sea life.

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* The wild looking hammer-headed fruit bat is one of three species of African fruit bat. They have wingspans of up to 38 inches and are Africa’s largest bat (I would sure as hell hope so!). They like figs (hey, don’t we all?) but also eats bananas, guavas and mangoes. 

* The thing that REALLY bugs me about that Madison Cawthorn lingerie pic (apart from his blazing hypocrisy) is that: 

a) he’s wearing the bra over a chemise or is that magic Mormon underwear? Which is it and WHY has this not been addressed? I need to know, dammit.

b) could he please put his damn bra straps up on his shoulders?! I’m uncomfortable just looking at that. Maybe he’s attempting to rock a John Singer Sargent, Madame X look? (In an early version of the painting, one of her dress straps was off the shoulder. Though it made for a more interesting painting, the look was deemed scandalous—he was forced to repaint it.)

* Alfred Hitchcock was afraid of eggs—he was an ovophobe. Ooookay...

"I'm frightened of eggs, worse than frightened; they revolt me. That white round thing without any holes, and when you break it, inside there's that yellow thing, round, without any holes…Blood is jolly, red. But egg yolk is yellow, revolting. I've never tasted it.” (source)

* In 1997 the good people of Talkeetna, Alaska elected an orange tabby foundling as their honorary mayor. Until his death in 2017, Mayor Stubbs conducted his mayoraly duties at Nagley's General Store.

“He doesn’t raise our taxes — we have no sales tax. He doesn’t interfere with business. He’s honest.” (source)

* Guess what! According to research by Symantec, I’m three times more likely to catch computer viruses, ransomware and spyware from religious sites versus porno ones. Not surprised are you?

“We hypothesize that this is because pornographic website owners already make money from the Internet and, as a result, have a vested interest in keeping their sites malware-free–it’s not good for repeat business,” said the report. (source)

I guess the Jesus sellers aren’t terribly tech savvy or maybe they just don’t give a good goddamn.

 

* Fredric Baur, the man who brought us stackable potato chips—Pringles, was so proud of his invention that he wanted his ashes to be interred in one of his cans.

"When my dad first raised the burial idea in the 1980s, I chuckled about it," Baur's eldest son Larry, 49, told TIME.

Larry Baur quickly realized his father was serious. Family jokes circulated about the Pringles plan, but no one questioned the elder Baur's decision. So when Frederic Baur died after a battle with Alzheimer's, Larry and his siblings stopped at Walgreen's for a burial can of Pringles on their way to the funeral home.

"My siblings and I briefly debated what flavor to use," Baur says, "but I said, 'Look, we need to use the original.'" (source) 

* The electric chair was invented by a dentist. Also, cotton candy. I am SO not surprised.

* And finally, clouds are actually wicked heavy, man! 

There, don't you feel intellectually enriched now? Of course you do!