My mother is spinning in her grave because I'm laughing at this little digression - it seems so inappropriate!
One of my cats could do 360 spins mid air. What's surprising is that he was kind of fat (14 pounds). Sadly, I never got video of it because he did it out of the blue.
Ray Parker Jr. Wrote the Ghostbusters theme song in three days and got paid $50,000 for the effort. In spite of recording a dozen albums, Ghostbusters is still the best selling and highest charting song of his career.
Did you know that changing the diameter of the top of a drink can from 60mm to 52mm saves 90 million tons of aluminium/steel per year?
Of all the strange shit I find, this one is definitely the strangest thing I have ever seen, and I don't get it...
There are nearly 400,000 species of beetles worldwide, but only 3,000 species of snakes. (But, to be fair, when the Lord said, 'go forth and multiply', the snakes replied, 'We can't. We're adders'.)
There's an entire industry dedicated to manufacturing tiny cell phones (2.8"x0.9"x0.4" in one case) intended to be smuggled into prisons. How the smuggling happens is left as an exercise for the reader.
The 'dummy payload' carried by the first SpaceX heavy rocket, headed to Mars orbit, will be Elon Musk's personal Tesla roadster. I love that guy. https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/22/16811944/elon-musk-spacex-tesla-roadster-mars-falcon-heavy