Random Rant vol. 37: Little facts to fill your mind

(cover to coffee table-like book i'm going to drop)

This rant is just going to be random little facts about any and everything...very interesting stuff to fuel your mind so you can win trivia contests at you local bar (word to $25 gift cards at Wild Wing Cafe)...the facts are from a book called "Sorry, Wrong Answer..." by Ron L. Evans...peep it

1. Black boxes in planes are not black - they are orange. This is to help investigators locate it by sight if necessary after a crash. The name was chosen entirely for humor reasons.

2. The sound you hear when you snap your fingers is not caused by the connection of your fingers - it is the sound of your middle finger hitting the base of your thumb.

3. Einstein was awarded the Nobel prize, not for his theory of relativity but for his less well known work on the photoelectric effect of light.

4. There is double jeopardy in this instance. In the U.S., a person can be tried twice for the same crime if it violates both federal and state law. In these cases the 5th amendment is overridden by a 1922 US Supreme Court decision.

5. The "rapture" is not in the Bible! Despite being believed by a large number of protestants (many of whom also believe that only that which is in the Bible can be true) it was actually invented the 1600's by one Cotton Mather - otherwise famous for murdering women by strangling them to death (by hanging) in the Salem witch trials. The term in the Bible commonly mistranslated to the word "rapture" actually comes from the Greek (harpazo) which actually means "caught up" or "taken away" and it refers to one person only (Philip).

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(4o)ur