That's crazy, I didn't even know that was possible. Was hoping for a happy ending, but was disappointed. The "Survival Guilt" page was an interesting read as well, but truly a shame that she suffered from it. Found it interesting that Elvis suffered from it, and also ended up reading through Primo Levi's page since I read "If This is a Man" in college.

Worst Interesting Things podcast imo.

Definitely. Was bored as hell.

I wonder if that's why this was the first Interesting Things that did not, in its description, promise to increase your mate value.

I told Jerry that a couple people remarked that they didn't like the most recent episode. He sighed and said, "How do I reach dese keeds?"

I thought the episode was solid as any, even if just for the line that some women loved the ship's vibration problems.

But to keep this thread on topic, here's an excerpt from NBA player Chris Dudley's entry:

In that 1990 game, he went 1 for 18 from the line.

Also, here's Surf Ranch in California's Central Valley:

If he wants to know why, tell him he's on safer ground with inherently interesting subjects (Krakatoa, Lord Byron, duels, Congo Free State, etc etc) than in trying to take mundane subjects like "ship gets hit by torpedo in war, sinks", or horseracing, or glass, and make them interesting. The glass one was fine but too long, the other two I mentioned both dull.

I hope you also tell him we all love the podcast and wish he'd do them more often!

The Lusitania is an interesting subject but i think the problem was the tangents kind of flopped around and went nowhere. 1 subject podcast makes it so you focus on the shortcomings more imo. With 2 subjects i think your brain just remembers the interesting parts of each. Gelatin was kind of a weak Brief Segment At The End Of The Show. In general the whole thing was too verbose.

This too, yeah.

his name is Jerry? Did his identity get leaked in this thread? He's a college professor, right?I'd want to audit his classes, love the guy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gail_Halvorsen

Berlin Airlift pilot who began dropping candy for German children. Eventually the word got out and American children and candy manufacturers donated tons of candy to the effort.

gg communism

That is a great find, i have never heard of Uncle Wiggly Wings before. The part on his personal life after returning home was also an endearing read.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HNLMS_...rijnssen_(1936)

Probably the GOAT infantry, Alexander the Great's elites, the Silver Shields.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argyraspides

Admittedly their wiki is crap but their story is cool. They were at the forefront of helping Alexander conquer 'the known world' but they never got to see their homes again, getting embroiled in the 47 years of war after Alexander's death.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wars_of_the_Diadochi

For FIVE DECADES they were the best infantry on earth!

Battle of Paraitakene:
Battle of Gabiene:
The idea of a bunch of men in their 60s and 70s just waffle-crushing the teenaged and 20-something whippersnappers fighting them is hilarious to me.

Those sort of accounts of battles from that period are to be taken with a large grain of salt. One of the main sources for that time is Diodorus, who was writing at least 250 years later.

Yeah, "Rosinenbomber" is basically the only word used for the American planes dropping supplies during the airlift (which is called "Luftbrücke" (Air Bridge) in German). I've heard many first hand accounts about those times, as my mother's side of my family originates from Berlin.

Crazy times. But even during those, the odd good thing will happen, which always kinda moves me.

Are non wiki links allowed? I really enjoyed this article about Chinese art heists and thought it fit the thread - https://www.gq.com/story/the-great-chinese-art-heist

The giant isopod, which is basically a 2' sea-going louse.

I really just wanted to post this though.



Apparently some guy was trying to release a couple sharks into the wild, and before one could even get out of the cage this giant isopod latched onto his face and ate the shark. HO LEE ***.

That is cool. Never seen those things before.

Had me wondering what they taste like. Apparently a bit like lobster or crab, but worse.

Have you Americans ever had Moreton Bay bugs? That's the Australian name, they're properly called slipper lobsters.







They are commonly eaten in Australia and very tasty. But they are the same order as lobster and shrimp, while the isopod is a different order.

I don't know. I'm not buying the isopod story at all. Something got that shark, but I don't think it was that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isopoda

Isn't the Sun the English version of National Enquirer?

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Interestingly, I was looking up information about everyone's ****-eating organism. Turns out that that it isn't a ****-eater, but it can be a cannibal.

It also has blue blood because it's based on copper.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobster

The article expands my mind, but still doesn't help place lobster at the top of my personal food chain.

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ChrisV, I'm not one to eat sea food, except some fish. That thing looks like something I would take as a last dinner in prison, in the hopes that I die of whatever poison that is instead of hanging.

No, I think it’s a couple of tiers above that. The Daily Sport might be the equivalent.


The same is true of horseshoe crabs, and their blood is super important in the Development of drugs, aiui, so they are regularly fished out of the Atlantic and ‘bled’.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atla...ab?wprov=sfti1

I saw it on an episode of Strange Evidence on the Sci Channel (which is not a BS show like Ancient Aliens or anything). The experts concluded that yeah it's a giant isopod and they had no idea they could be that aggressive. Apparently they can go years w/o eating. But when they're hungry they're hungry.

This link on reddit is supposedly the aftermath. You can see an isopod swimming around in the tank and then a bunch of them feasting on the shark. https://www.reddit.com/r/natureismet...rk_the_result/

Maybe the shark tried to nudge it or bite it or something and it latched on more in self-defense. But then of course once it killed the shark they all dined on it.

Either that or someone with serious skillz is playing an elaborate CGI trick.

Maybe not CGI, but good camera trickery. An isopod apparently grows up to 20 inches (50 cm). If these were close shots of baby sharks, then it could make sense.

I watched a youtoob about aphasia. This is fascinating imo but also sounds like one of the worst hells possible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphasia

Broken down into some sub-types:

These people speak fluently and confidently but make absolutely no sense because the part of their brain that connects words to meanings has been broken. They thus can't understand what anyone else says either. Your intellect remains intact but you can't communicate any thoughts to anyone by speech or writing.

Highly recommend the youtoob if you find this interesting.