Obscure facts ya know!

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nice "fact".

The genome of wheat, with seventeen billion base pairs, is approximately five times the size of the genome of humans.

Some part of this is that the most common strains of wheat grown today are hexaploid wheat -- they have three of each pair of chromosomes. In contrast, the original wheats were diploid (one of each pair of chromosomes) and tetraploid (two of each pair of chromosomes). That changed about 8,500 years ago when in some ancient field, a tetraploid wheat picked up another set of chromosomes from a closely related grass.

nikola tesla died basically broke, he had been supported by various benefactors in the decades leading up to his death.

within hours after tesla's death, the federal government swept up all his files it could get its hands on.

nobody's perfect, I guess at least he didn't abuse pigeons

visualizing his inventions "thinking in pictures style" like temple grandin taken to the nth degree.

on the next page

I hope Aunt blabby and Booyakasha
don't bicker like angry children

or like...y know, hyenas

Amon Goeth, the concentration camp commander most remembered from'Schindler's List' had an affair in 1944 with his secretary, Ruth Irene Kalder.

Their daughter, Monika, was born in 1945.

She was raised with no knowledge of her father.

While a young woman, she had a very brief affair with a foreign-born student, and became the mother of a baby girl she named Jennifer.

At some point, she learned who her father had been ( he had been executed by then, his last words being 'Heil Hitler'), had a breakdown, and gave her baby up for adoption.

The little girl was adopted by a family who loved her dearly, and who did not know who she was.

She did not discover her grandfather's identity until she herself was a wife and mother of two.

The discovery devastated her......she recovered from the emotional/psychological shock, and has written a book.

The title is 'Amon: My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me'.

This is because the foreign student that her mother was involved with was from Nigeria.

Amon Goeth's granddaughter is black.

now THAT is obscure..i think