The Spire of Lloyd is called "Ireland's only inland lighthouse," and it's located 25 miles (40 km) from the nearest coast. It's a folly, or a building with no function or purpose other than aesthetics.

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #498: The Spire of Lloyd.
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youtu.be/fLLi9CsV42Y?... Yes in this #StrangeButTrue video there is a story where a woman was selling regurgitated toes on facebook.

youtu.be/ioRhhe4dM9k?... This was my latest #StrangeButTrue video even though it was a few months ago.

The Strange But True Series - YouTube The series Strange But True started on April 14, 2014 by Kai Lacrosse and went on hiatus on April 22, 2014. After 1 year and 4 months of being on hiatus the ...

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The Bizarre Ones Podcast - YouTube In every episode of this monthly podcast Kai Lacrosse, Tonya Kitsune, and/or Diamond Ash explore the strange, paranormal, and the downright bizarre. This pod...

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TrES-2b (aka Kepler-1b) is the darkest planet discovered so far. Located 750 light years away, it appears literally blacker than coal, but glows slightly in infrared because its surface temperature is about 2,900 F or 1,600 C.

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #497: TrEs-2b aka Kepler-1b.
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Rob McConnell Interviews - MIKE ST. LAWRENCE - The UFO Abduction Insurance What if you could insure yourself against a UFO abduction? It may sound like science fiction, but for Mike St. Lawrence, it’s a very real—and very serious—concept. In this fascinating episode, we explore the origins of UFO abduction insurance, how such policies are structured, and what they reveal about society’s growing interest in extraterrestrial encounters. Mike dives into the history behind these unusual policies, the people who purchase them, and the deeper question: are UFO encounters becoming more accepted as a legitimate phenomenon? Is this clever marketing, or a reflection of something much bigger unfolding in our skies? Tune in as we examine the intersection of belief, business, and the unknown.

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Satoru Nomura was the first Yakuza boss sentenced to death in Japan, and (partly) because of a penis enlargement surgery. While recovering from the procedure, he felt disrespected by one of the nurses. So he ordered an attack on her. However, the investigation into this attack led to charges added to several other serious crimes, including murder. He got the death penalty in 2021, later commuted to life in prison.

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #495: Satoru Nomura.
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Johnny Cash was once nearly killed by an ostrich. Despite defending himself with a 6-foot long stick, Cash broke two ribs and was nearly disemboweled by the huge bird’s claw. Ostriches can reach 9 feet tall and weigh 320 pounds. They can be aggressive, and can easily kill a human (and have). The incident led to his addiction to painkillers and nearly ruined his life.

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #494: Johnny Cash versus an ostrich.
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Time Slips Explained: 20 True Stories & Science Behind Them Truth behind time slips. We explore 20 mind-bending, famous time slip stories & break down the scientific & normal theories explaining them.

Time Slips Explained: 20 True Time Slip Stories, Scientific & Paranormal Explanations #timemachine #timeslip #truestories #creepybuttrue #TimeSlipStories #weirdhistory #paranormal #CosmicMysteries #mindblown #StrangeButTrue www.gsnsp.com/time-slips-e...

Bell Lane’s mysterious “spook water” — the house that rained indoors

#Leicester #Poltergeist #Unexplained #Mystery #Paranormal #HistoricMystery #StrangeButTrue #WeirdHistory #BritishHistory #LocalLegends

Helen Duncan was the last person to be imprisoned under the Witchcraft Act of 1735. A "psychic," she held a seance in 1941 and revealed the sinking of the HMS Barham, which was classified and only known to the Navy and the sailors' families. She actually heard it from an intelligence leak, and her "vision" was inaccurate on many key details (like the design of the sailors' uniforms). The Navy investigated the leak, which led to her trial for witchcraft and fraud. She was sentenced to nine months in prison.

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #493: Helen Duncan.
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"aaaaaaa ccccc deeeee ghiiiiiii Illl mm nnnnnnnnn oooopp grrs ttttt uuuuu" was the first written human description of Saturn having rings, by Christian Huygens in 1655. He encoded it as a Latin anagram in his book Systema Saturnium, before claiming credit for the disovery three years later. This was proof he discovered it first, while giving himself time to refine his initial findings.

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #492: aaaaaaa­ccccc­deeeeeg­hiiiiiii­llllmm­nnnnnnnnn­oooopp­qrrs­tttttuuuuu.
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The Cox-Zucker machine is an algorithm in arithmetic geometry by mathematicians David A. Cox and Steven Zucker. Their paper: "determines whether a given set of sections provides a basis (up to torsion) for the Mordell-Weil group of an elliptic surface E->S, where S is isomorphic to the projective line, " whatever that means. Also, Cox and Zucker said that as soon as they met as students at Princeton, they collaborated specifically because the paper's title would be so funny.

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #491: The Cox-Zucker Machine.
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Listening to an old episode of my podcast with me, #TonyaKitsune, and #DiamondAsh. It's an episode where we looked at #StrangeButTrue news stories. #BizarreOnes #BizarreOnesPodcast #podcast #podcasts
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Fact check: Is it really illegal to talk to dolphins? The Marine Mammal Protection Act doesn't specify communication, but prohibits "interfering with marine mammals" in a way that alters their natural behavior. This includes attempting communication. So it's probably okay to talk to one; but if you're trying to get them to talk back, you may need a lawyer.

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #490: The Marine Mammal Protection Act.
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I do have a video coming up for youtube.com/@bizarreones... as well. That one will be coming up next month and will be about the #MandelaEffect. There will even be a panel with me, #TonyaKitsune, and #DiamondAsh near the end of the video. #BizarreOnes #BizarreOnesPodcast #strangebuttrue #paranormal

Finnair Flight 666 flew to HEL on Friday the 13th, October 2017 (Copenhagen to Helsinki). It landed safely without incident.

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #379: Flight 666 direct to HEL.
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Bizarre Ones Season One - YouTube All 12 episodes of season one of Bizarre Ones

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Well past me, #KaiLacrosse we never did that podcast but we did do a podcast where it is I, #TonyaKitsune, and #DiamondAsh where we talk about #strangebuttrue stories, #paranormal events, and the outright bizarre. The #podcast is called the #BizarreOnes
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"Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe" is a 1980 documentary where the legendary filmmaker fulfills a bet to eat his own shoe if his friend ever completed their film. At its premiere, Herzog boiled his shoe in garlic and ate it on camera. It wasn't even Herzog's first strange bet. While filming "Even Dwarfs Started Small, " he bet his crew he'd dive into a cactus patch while they film it, if there were no more accidents on set. There weren't, and he made good on his promise.

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #489: Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe.
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #8: Vulcan Point.
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The Breathalyzer's co-designer, Dr. Richard Lacey, was caught drunk driving in the UK in 2024.

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn: #488: The Breathalyzer.
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Strange True Photos - YouTube This started out as a part of #StrangeButTrue and then I put it in my #StrangeButTrueLivestreams . But decided that I should make it as it's own thing as wel...

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The Strange But True Series - YouTube The series Strange But True started on April 14, 2014 by Mortika Lacrosse and went on hiatus on April 22, 2014. After 1 year and 4 months of being on hiatus ...

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The Torpedo fish wasn't named after the torpedo, but the other way round. The underwater missile was named after the fish, which are now called electric rays (genus Torpedo, family Torpedinidae). The name, in turn, comes from the Latin torpēdo, meaning lethargy or sluggish-ness. The name was fitting because the original design was more like a sea mine than today's self-propelled device.

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #487: Torpedo.
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•Kkrieger is the world's smallest-sized computer game at just 96 kilobytes, and this was in 2004. Despite its tiny filesize, it was a first-person shooter with 3D graphics, textures, original music, and detailed maps; and looked like Doom or Quake from the era. It was made by German demogroup theprodukkt for a game demo competition, which it won. For perspecțive on how small 96 KB is, this comic's image file is around 1 MB, or about ten times larger.

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #485: .kkrieger.
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Ancient Egypt covers such a vast expanse of time (3150 BC to 30 BC), that each era of ancient Egypt had their own ancient Egyptian anthropologists studying previous eras of even more ancient Egypt before them.

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #484: Ancient Egypt.
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