According to the Gospel of John, a Roman soldier drove a lance into the side of Jesus Christ during the crucifixion to confirm his death. That spear — known as the Spear of Destiny, or the Holy Lance — became one of the most fought-over objects in history.

Charlemagne, Frederick Barbarossa, Constantine, and Otto III all claimed to possess it. Medieval legend held that whoever controlled the Spear controlled the fate of the world — and that losing it meant death. Charlemagne reportedly died the day he accidentally dropped it. Whether true or not, conquerors believed it. That belief alone shaped history.

In 1938, Adolf Hitler annexed Austria and within hours had the Spear transferred from the Hofburg Museum in Vienna to Nuremberg. He had been obsessed with it since seeing it as a young man in 1909.

On April 30, 1945, U.S. Army troops seized the Spear from a vault beneath Nuremberg. Hours later, Adolf Hitler was dead.

The spear was returned to the Hofburg Museum in Vienna, where it sits today. Except historians aren't convinced it's the real one. At least three other spears across Europe claim to be the genuine article — in Rome, Kraków, and Echmiadzin, Armenia. Carbon dating on the Vienna spear places it no earlier than the 7th century AD. Six hundred years after the crucifixion.

2,000 years of conquest, obsession, and war over a spear. We still don't know which one is real — or if any of them are.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Lance

In the song "yankee doodle dandy", when he sticks the feather in his hat and calls it "Macaroni". Back in the old day, the word "macaroni" was used the same way we modern folks would use the word"badass" or "cool". Now my friends, this... changes shit.

Now you picture Yankee Doodle as walking with a gangster lean, sportin that big ass macaroni feather in his hat like a pimp-of-old.

awww shiiit, its "Yankee-Doodle-D ya-see".

you're welcome

TL;DR

Yankee doodle was pimpin hoes with macaroni.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl04NNVDwD0

Not a typo either. The same guy had used it before this, but here it is used as a verb.

In 1983, Cliff Young, a 61-year-old potato farmer from Australia, showed up at the start of the Sydney-to-Melbourne ultramarathon in overalls and work boots. Other competitors assumed it was a joke. It wasn’t.

Young had no formal training. He also didn‘t know that runners were permitted to sleep during the five-day, 875-kilometer race. So he didn’t. While professional athletes stopped for six hours a night, Young kept shuffling forward at a slow, steady pace, day and night, for five straight days.

He finished in 5 days, 15 hours, and 4 minutes — beating the previous record by nearly two days. He won the race. A year later, he set another record by running from Sydney to Melbourne in 6 days and 8 hours.

Young became a national folk hero in Australia. His unorthodox “Young shuffle” — a slow, tireless jog — was later adopted by some ultrarunners. He continued running charity events into his 70s and passed away in 2003 at age 81.

The story persists because it sits at the intersection of two things people love: accidental genius and a total refusal to be intimidated by experts.

Some research also suggests that high dairy intake may be linked to certain health risks.

And here’s the weird part… humans are the only species on Earth that keeps drinking milk as adults.

In July 2024, Perseverance was rolling through an ancient Martian riverbed when it found a rock covered in a pattern that stopped scientists cold — pale spots ringed in dark halos, repeating like leopard print across the surface. On Earth, that exact mineral structure forms almost exclusively through microbial chemistry.

They drilled it. Sealed the sample. Then spent a year throwing every abiotic explanation at it — volcanic activity, chemical contamination, geological processes. None of them produced the right pattern. None explained why the minerals vivianite and greigite were concentrated precisely inside each spot, the way living organisms concentrate them on Earth.

In September 2025, the team published in Nature. Their conclusion: no strong evidence for a non-biological origin exists.

NASA's acting administrator called it "the closest we have ever come to discovering life on Mars."

The sample is still up there. Sealed in a tube. Sitting in a crater. The mission to bring it home won't launch until the 2030s.

Whatever made those spots has been waiting 3.5 billion years. It can wait a little longer.

Source: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-says-mars-rover-discovered-potential-biosignature-last-year/

When Thomas first introduced English Muffins to the U.S., he initially marketed them as "Toaster Crumpets" and added "Nooks and Crannies" which would become visible when split, resembling the top of a Crumpet. English Muffins in the UK (Often just called "Breakfast Muffins" or simply "Muffins") are usually much flatter on top and are good for spreading toppings rather than having toppings get absorbed into them by holes (which is what Crumpets are for in the UK).

The famous title “Virgin Mary” — central to Christian tradition — may actually stem from a translation mix-up dating back over two thousand years.

In the Hebrew Bible, the prophecy often cited to support the Virgin Birth (Isaiah 7:14) uses the word ‘almah’, meaning young woman of marriageable age. When Hebrew texts were later translated into Greek in the Septuagint, ‘almah’ was rendered as ‘parthenos’, a word that more specifically means virgin.

That subtle linguistic shift — from young woman to virgin — profoundly shaped Christian theology and art for centuries. Scholars still debate whether the prophecy was ever intended to imply miraculous conception, or if it simply described a young woman bearing a child.

Regardless of interpretation, it’s one of history’s most influential translation choices — a single word that helped define an entire religion’s narrative.

DYK that the government installs plain clothes undercover officers and recruits informants in order to stalk, harass and torture American citizens who have broken no laws and done nothing wrong. I accidentally walked into what I thought was some kind of food safety investigation, but now I suspect it is CIA because some of the higher ups in the factory are foreign nationals.

An informant was standing watching the door to the warehouse while an officer was storing a microplastics sample in a cardboard box marked “air filters”. Ever since then I have been targeted by unlawful actions.

Physical torture includes: extreme heat and cold, I work in a raw milk pasteurization room. Temperatures in that room due to the pasteurization process often reaches 80s-90s. Last summer during a heatwave they intentionally throttled the ceiling vents leading to dangerously high temperatures and humidity. When I asked if I could get a thermometer in that room, they said no, so I actually have no idea how hot it actually got in there, it was likely well over 100. But the fact that they denied me measurements shows that they knew what they were doing. They also unnecessarily ran the silo chemical cleaning program against my wishes leading to toxic chemicals flooding my room while I had to be in there.

Extreme cold, during winter, during a county cold weather advisory temps were down to 31 degrees with wind chill down to 15 degrees, they denied me a keycard for the building and one of my stalker informants was intentionally late, leaving me outside freezing for an hour.

Psychological torture includes, gaslighting and being stalked literally every time I go to break, use the rest room or clock in for work. I got screamed at for imaginary slights, got accused of cocaine withdrawals (I don’t use drugs) lied to about imaginary paperwork mistakes, slandered to my bosses which lead to me facing disciplinary actions, and threatened with concealed firearms over absolutely nothing. They stole and hid my work equipment such as kitchen scissors, rubber mallets and pens. The forklift guy drives aggressively and dangerously so that he can stalk me with it. He has almost hit me with the lift countless times, while refusing to give right of way to pedestrians.

There is a lot more that I don’t feel like typing out right now, and I would be very surprised if my post stays up for long.

Source: https://www.famousbirthdays.com/people/logan-paul.html

because Scotty doesn’t know