Friday, March 16, 2012

Random List Thursday

The olm, a European salamander, is a little 12 inch troglobite monster that can live without food sources for 10 years.



The pineal gland, a third eye of sorts, is a part of our brain without a twin counterpart that has to do with our circadian rhythm, our sexual development, and God knows what else.



Christopher Guest, or should I say, the Right Honorable Christopher Guest, or should I say, the Right Honourable Christopher Guest, is a baron, and is, yes, married to Jamie Lee Curtis.  Best of Show Christopher Guest.  The six-fingered man Chirstopher Guest.  A Mighty Wind Christopher Guest.



So what is a baron?  Well, in his case he is the son of a diplomat assigned a baronage.  And a baron is the lowest level of peerage, as it is called in the UK: Duke, Marquis, Earl, Viscount, and then Baron.  And titles of nobility like these, when accompanied with the proper papers, pass through heridity in the way you might suspect, so that a legacy follows one's bloodline in the way that has historically assuaged the human biological need to reproduce one's own DNA.

Polydactyly occurs more often than you probably realize: 1 in 500 live births.

Barony occurs in only 1 in 50000 live births in the UK, which means 1 in 5 million, worldwide.

Olms are magical creatures that hatch, breed, and grow in their larval stages.  When they grow into adults they are known as dragons.

2 comments:

  1. interesting. vedy interesting.

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  2. and of course, This Is Spinal Tap Christopher Guest. Very nice RLT. I suppose I need to get back on my RLW posts, or blogging in general!

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