It took the smartest minds in professional baseball nearly 130 years to figure out that you could just make the part of the bat that the ball connects with bigger if you wanted to get better results. It's not a thinking mans game. 

social media apps like the Facebook took their understanding of what slot machines do and applied it to their app to keep their users scrolling endlessly. 

There was no way of knowing what was happening in times gone by and therefore understanding of the wider world was limited. Everyone only found out what was happening in the next village via word of mouth. As was customary, a man named Samuel Newspaperston decided to ask his friend in the village over what was going on there. He was shocked to find that the self-appointed mayor had abdicated in favour of a goose. Rather than inform the town crier, as had always been the done thing, Samuel decided to scratch his thoughts into the mud outside his home. This was the first "Newspaperton" in recorded history, believed to have been daubed in the ground in early 1973. At some point subsequently the "ton" was dropped and the first "Newspaper" was born. 

Octopuses have been observed arranging seashells in intricate spiral patterns not for camouflage or shelter, but seemingly as a form of underwater "art." Marine biologists call this behavior “cephalopod spiraling,” and it’s still a mystery why they do it. This has become an internet phenomenon with the 24 hour live stream "Octupussy" surpassing Sophie Rain as the most popular content on OnlyFans. 

Birds aren't real. Between 1959 and 1969, the U.S. government replaced over 12 billion birds with surveillance drones disguised as birds. Due to an oversight in the wing of government responsible, nobody thought to create any chicks, which is why you never see baby pigeons because they’re manufactured, not born. When Barack Obama took office in 1969, horrified, he shut it all down, vowing never to eat KFC again. 

Bananas were once used as a form of wireless communication by ancient civilizations, who believed their curved shape could channel cosmic frequencies for long-distance messages. This is why, after eating his breakfast one morning and peeling a banana, Alexander Graham Bell first invented the mobile phone and set the top score on Snake.

When Chairman Mao was just a boy, he had a traumatic experience with a South-East Asian Bullfrog, which led to a lifelong psychosexual obsession with toads, frogs, tadpoles and the like. His many mistresses were said to have custom-tailored hundreds of 'sexy Communist frog' outfits in order to please him and his estate guards reported several instances of him frog-hopping around his gardens with his willy out while a tall, Amazonian-esque woman in a princess outfit and tiara gave him kisses. 

Ducks have spiky peni.

Spiky peno 

Spiky Peniscus.

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Ronald Reagan was a known proponent of adult diapers far before his dementia ever emerged, as he was understood to have enjoyed the privilege of being able to do his business anywhere he liked, any time he liked. His advisors were known to create elaborate excuses to keep the windows open in the oval office, on account of the vague stink that settled in the space over his four year term. 

Numerous studies and census reports showed that until well into the late 1900's, statistically, farmers in the American South were more likely to marry horses, scarecrows and pitchforks stuck into hay, among other things, than women who weren't related to them. 

On the Titanic there was an entire room dedicated to potatoes. This is because the amount of meals that contained potatoes and also because of the magicalness of potatoes. Some say that if you go down into the ocean, the potatoes are now sea potatoes and growing. 

That bit is bullshit, but the potato room is 100% factual. 

Ancient bedouin tribes in the Saharan desert used to stage elaborate digsites in order to create giant oil and tar pits, which they would light on fire in attempts to communicate with extraterrestrials. They never received any acknowledgement or response as - little did the bedouins know - the E.T.'s were busy building the pyramids just a couple hundred miles down the road.

Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boyeln died in the same year within 4 months of each other. This means Anne B. was only really queen for 4 months before having her head chopped off. 1536 was a wild fucking year for King Henry VIII and his family.