one thing I half-wish I were sociopathic enough to do is create a load of entirely nonsense (but superficially plausible) “facts” and spread them as gospel

below is a safe space

post ideas +/ times you have done this

no two countries in which Amazon operates have ever gone to war

in 1967 the Soviets lost a nuclear submarine, this was kept secret until 2005 when marine biologists found a population of goblin sharks containing bizarre genetic mutations including a number of specimens with two heads

common black ants secrete an enzyme when digesting prey that, if consumed in sufficiently large quantities, has hallucinatory properties similar to those of LSD

like with narcolepsy, it’s possible (but v rare) for people whose immune systems respond oddly to any given virus to develop tiny structures in their visual cortex, which allow them to see an extra colour

nobody has been able to agree on a name for it so it’s really understudied

there is an isolated population in the Amazon basin whose hair contains nerve endings; evolutionary biologists believe this is to help them identify threats (such as biting insects) before they reach the skin

most household towels contain over 43 species of mould

because aluminium atoms have an uneven number of electrons, they refract photons at an angle, meaning only silver-backed mirrors can show a “true” reflection — the vast majority of household mirrors produce a very slightly elongated image (you are not as slim as you think!)

Oscar Wilde used his middle name; his birth name was actually Carlos (because his mother was Spanish) but he knew that English culture would not accept him under such a moniker

the EU regulates the number of insect parts permitted in any given foodstuff... except for fruit flies.

lobbying from space scientists (who rely on them for all kinds of experiment) in the 90s meant that fruit flies were excluded from all regulation, including food standards

(this is why KitKats taste so different in the UK vs US)

Burger King started life as Burger Princess, but the group hired an ad agency in the early 70s who ran consumer panels & concluded that men (the more profitable market) found the female-coded language alienating