As interesting as it may be...that blog was poorly written and lacking facts


For example:

On Jan. 8, 1835, all the big political names in Washington gathered to celebrate what President Andrew Jackson had just accomplished. A senator rose to make the big announcement: "Gentlemen ... the national debt ... is PAID."


He should have used the senator's name.

12/1/2012 10:31:57 PM

The US fertility rate is increasing.

It was lowest throughout the last half of the 70s.

12/5/2012 3:58:32 PM

Texas has a clause in their constitution that gives them the ability to break into 5 states.

12/6/2012 8:39:21 AM

Russia was primarily responsible for Germany's defeat in WWII.

12/7/2012 3:59:09 PM

As of today, there are 479,899 IPv4 BGP prefixes in the global Internet routing table.

12/7/2012 4:04:14 PM

A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.

12/7/2012 4:06:34 PM

Doing sit ups is a pretty terrible movement to work your abs.

12/7/2012 4:25:55 PM

if you suck too many cocks at once you end up making threads like this

12/7/2012 4:27:20 PM

I once ate a rice crispy treat while taking a dump and one rice crispy fell of and landed in my pants. When I stood up it fell into my shoe and I was too lazy to take my shoe off and for the rest of the day it was there to shame me for what I'd done.

12/7/2012 5:38:45 PM

Type IIb diamonds have boron in their lattice. That is why they are blue.

12/7/2012 6:09:04 PM

Van Damme's real name is Jean-Claude Camille François Van Varenberg

12/7/2012 6:12:23 PM

ontogeny does not recapitulate phylogeny: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recapitulation_theory

[Edited on December 11, 2012 at 8:14 PM. Reason : ]

12/11/2012 8:13:38 PM

This blew my mind today.

We used to institutionalize more people than what we imprison today. The sum of the two reached a minimum around 1980.

http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2012/12/14/social-failures/



This was also a maximum in property crime.

12/14/2012 4:11:36 PM

If you include petrochemical liquids in general, the US now produces more than Saudi Arabia

http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=9290

12/20/2012 1:19:33 PM

assault rifles are currently banned in the United States and no...a civilian grade AR-15 is not an assault rifle

12/20/2012 2:40:53 PM

Mozart's full name is Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, but he went by Wolfgang Amade (not Amadeus) or Wolfgang Gottlieb.

12/20/2012 5:31:36 PM

You probably know that the 13th amendment, passed in 1865, abolished slavery.

You probably didn't know that in 1861, an amendment that guaranteed state's rights to slavery passed the house and senate, was signed by the president, and was even ratified by some states. This amendment basically outlawed future amendments like the 13th one we know of today.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corwin_Amendment

This blows my mind:

Quote :

"This proposed amendment is still pending before the state legislatures for ratification, because Congress submitted it to the state legislatures without a deadline. Since the Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery was adopted in 1865, the Corwin Amendment lost whatever momentum it had."

1/2/2013 10:39:48 AM

WHAT?

TIL, the person known as Roe from the Roe vs. Wade court decision is now a pro-life campaigner. She actually fights to have that very decision overturned, even though she was the plaintiff.

2/6/2013 7:56:40 PM