Odd Bits

Scientists at Hong Kong Baptist University have discovered a new species of box jellyfish which has 24 eyes. They’re located inside four sensory organs – together they give our pal Tripedalia maipoensis 360-degree vision. Way cool.

…not all of these eyes are created equal. According to the researchers, these eyes are split into four groups of six, which are each located inside a sensory organ known as a rhopalium. Of those six eyes, two of them have lenses for forming images and the other four detect light and dark. (source) 

Very Alien:Earth, no?

Abraham Lincoln's only surviving son, Robert Todd Lincoln, was present at or near three U.S. presidential assassinations – his father's, James Garfield, and William McKinley. Seems a mite fishy don’cha think? 

Granted…

Bobby was at the White House, not Ford’s Theater, when Abe was shot. He was rushed to his father's side as soon as he got the news.

He was the Secretary of War (yes, that was really the name of the office at that time) for President James Garfield and was with him at the Sixth Street Train Station in D.C. when Garfield was assassinated by Charles Guiteau. Guiteau had it in his head that he could put a stop to the Republican Party’s internecine warfare if he offed the Prez. I’m thinking the present day equivalent might be Kenneth Chesebro, Alina Habba, Sidney Powell, Jeffrey Clark or Laura Loomer except, unlike Guiteau, they weren’t rejected by their hero/president and would NEVER harm a single shellacked, dyed, and bizarrely styled hair on Dear Leader's head.

The next president’s murder he was in the vicinity of was William McKinley. Bill was done in by a very unhappy out of work wireworker. Leon Czolgosz had lost his job during the economic Panic of 1893 and became an anarchist. Seemingly inspired by Gaetano Bresci's assassination of King Umberto I of Italy, Leon went after Bill. Bob Lincoln just happened to be at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. He wasn’t an eyewitness but was outside the Temple of Music when the deed went down.

Recognizing this trend, Lincoln is said to have refused a later presidential invitation with the response, "No, I'm not going, and they'd better not ask me, because there is a certain fatality about presidential functions when I am present.” (source) 

So, maybe Bob Lincoln had nothing to do with the deaths of the three out of four presidents who have been assassinated BUT don’t YOU find it a little sus that he was SO close (or RIGHT there)? I mean, let’s look at this:

George Washington was sworn in on April 30, 1789. No presidents are offed for 89 years and then Lincoln in 1865, Garfield in 1881, and McKinley 1901. The next assassination, JFK, was in 1963 – 62 years later. Bob Lincoln had died in 1926 and I haven’t seen any reports of his descendants being in Dallas at that time.

Lincoln was either a bad luck charm from the universe or he was in on it. That's obvs, isn't it?!

Did you know that the last known group of woolly mammoths survived until approximately 1650 B.C.?  That’s over a thousand years after the Pyramids at Giza were built! Mammoths were still alive in the Arctic, on Wrangel Island (300 miles miles west of Alaska's mainland, across the Chukchi Sea) when those suckers went up. That just blows my mind.

Final weird fact for the day – ingredients in the toothpaste of Roman citizens of old? Crushed mouse brains and human urine imported from Portugal. Why Portuguese urine? Would Spanish or Dutch piss be inferior? If so, why? Why mouse brains and not voles, hamsters or gerbils?

I’VE GOT QUESTIONS HERE!!!!