Ernest Rutherford or Lord Rutherford of Nelson as he was known when fine-ass ladies were around, was a physicist/chemist perhaps best remembered for discovering that atoms are mostly empty space and that radioactive half-life was totally a thing.
Elon Musk Just Doesn’t Give a F**k
Every now and again while we’re researching facts to post we happen upon a piece of information about a celebrity or historical figure that makes us genuinely question whether scientists are correct about absolute zero being the coolest possible thing in the universe. Today for example, we found out that Elon Musk once bought James Bond’s car and decided that he, like so many other celebrities before him, needed an article on this site detailing all of the ways he’s proven that his fuck meter is perpetually empty.
Mr Rogers Hated TV When He First Saw It
Mr Rogers spent the better part of 3 decades entertaining children and advocating being the kind of person people don’t mutter the word “dickhead” at as you walk past. Weirdly, according to Rogers himself, the only reason he got into television is because he hated it.
The Amazing Way the First Director of MI6 Kept People on Their Toes
In the world of British espionage and covertly strangling people with piano wire, Mansfield Smith-Cumming is one of the best known names, partly due to the impact he had on what eventually became MI6 and partly because he was fucking insane.
Daft Punk’s Helmets Originally Had Wigs
Here’s one for you, did you know that when Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter, better known by, well, everybody as Daft Punk, first envisioned their sweet-ass robot outfits, they imagined that each one would sport a custom-made wig? For some reason though, the pair destroyed the wigs before anybody ever saw them and it remains an obscure, seldom discussed footnote in Daft Punk history.
