Today, the city of Farmington, Maine, honors the inventor of earmuffs.

Labels: All our pomp of yesterday, anthropology, blank spaces on the map, history, Killer Fact, Maine

The plastic soda bottle was invented by Nathaniel Wyeth, son of the great illustrator N. C. Wyeth.

Actually, he was better than great. He was... Cugat.

Labels: A, ambiguous antecedents, Killer Fact, science, technology, too much information

lardge rund haybals:

they loook inacent dont they? WONRGN!!

From 1992 to 1998, 74 farm workers in the United States were killed in large round hay bale accidents.

"acidiants". riiiigghght.

Labels: Beautiful Nebraska, cannibalism, Killer Fact, The Wonders of Nature

Jaguars have been known to eat avocados.

I once met a house cat in Berkeley, CA who had a habit of breaking into a neighbor's hous to eat their avocados. He also showed a keen interest in babies' fontanelles.

A word to the wise, my friends. Forewarned is forearmed.

Labels: brains, cannibalism, Killer Fact, science, Teletubbies, The Wonders of Nature

Skype listens on port 80 by default. Naturally, this breaks Apache. Am I crazy or is that an odd choice of port number for something that's not an HTTP server?

Labels: Killer Fact

"Idaho" is a made-up word.

Labels: Killer Fact

At my age I've got no excuse for setting foot anywhere near a hardcore band even if I wanted to, but the other night it happened anyhow. You sort of grin and bear it.

But I learned something! It turns out that the mind of every hardcore singer is composed of two distinct personalities: The Epileptic Zombie and the Constipated Zombie. At any given moment on stage, it's eerily apparent which one is in control.

Update!

Also, a bizarre and richly-deserved assault on the Rolling Stones, via Mick Hartley.

Labels: anthropology, Killer Fact, The Wonders of Nature, too much information

im sgartign a new featsteur! teh satraday amatony leson! tihs ones so gooood ther wont be anymoare. sory.

Generally, adult liver sector location under normal circumstances, as in the hit Legong liver, while the pathological hepatomegaly. Children under the geopolitical location of the liver less exposed to the general are again under normal circumstances.

ok!

updupudpuate!

comanantrar gomagoggog clarifiues!

In this garden he said there was a liver.A liver,we said? Then he said maybe it wasn't a liver but a rake.

Labels: Killer Fact, the imponderable mysteries of the human liver, Topology

"Chinese finger traps are not intended for use as restraint devices."

pls makea not ofit. thx.

Labels: Killer Fact