List of interesting things
This is a list of things I have found interesting:
- Mary Mallon, or “Typhoid Mary” -
A woman who was forcibly quarantined on an island in New York due to being
an asymptomatic carrier of the bacteria that causes typhoid fever
[added July 4, 2026] - Centralia, Pennsylvania -
A town that has had a coal mine fire burning underneath it since 1962. I
think I actually went here as a kid on a field trip.
[added July 4, 2026] - List of oldest documents -
Self-explanatory
[added July 4, 2026] - Lindy effect - The theory that
the longer something exists, the more likely it is to continue to exist
[added July 4, 2026] - Historicity of Jesus -
The discussion of what details about the life of Jesus are generally agreed
upon by historians to be true vs. those that are more purely religious
beliefs
[added July 4, 2026] - Woozle effect - When a claim
with widespread credibility can be traced back to an original source that
doesn’t effectively back up that claim
[added July 4, 2026] - Húsafell Stone - A 186
kg stone used in Iceland as a test of strength
[added July 4, 2026] - Homunculus loxodontus -
A statue of a funny elephant seal guy that sits outside of a hospital in the
Netherlands
[added July 4, 2026] - Flexplay - A type of DVD that
would “self-destruct” after some amount of time
[added July 4, 2026]