Free-Floating

Today, I discovered that the cyclical nature and closed structure of Benzene rings was discovered by a German scientist, Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz, while he was having a reverie about Ouroborus, an ancient symbol of a snake swallowing its own tail (the symbol itself has several representations, one of them being cyclical rebirth like a Phoenix).

Other examples of discovery by serendipity:

Jet Li, now a Singaporean.

An image of a post envelope with address written in krakozyabry (кракозя́бры) AKA Mojibake. The envelope contained a Harry Potter book. This letter was sent to a Russian student by her French friend, who manually wrote the address that he received by e-mail. His e-mail client, unfortunately, was not set up correctly to display Cyrillic characters, so they were substituted with diacritic symbols from the Western charset (ISO-8859-1) The original message was in KOI8-R.

via upload.wikimedia.org

Pope Paul IV confirmed King Kong is Santa Claus.

A track from the SZS OST.

I don't know what it sounds like.

- Grab the book closest to you. Go to page 64. Find the 7th sentence and type it. A student reads a test question that asks for a distance, gives a time interval of 3.2 s and a constant acceleration of magnitude 5.4 m/s2.

- Go your iTunes or WMP or whatever music player you use. Set it to random/shuffle. Press next track 5 times. Then find the lyrics to that song. Find the 5th line of that song’s lyrics and type it. Signs of a savoir

- Grab a newspaper or a magazine. Go to page 4. Find the 4th sentence and type it. I say good for the private security forces. - Time Magazine

- Go to Wikipedia. Go to Random Article. Find the 6th line and type it. A smaller car, the 9 hp of 1913 with a 1357 cc side valve four cylinder, was the first to sell in significant numbers and was re-introduced after World War 1 as the 11 hp having grown to 1600 cc. (Copied and pasted, actually. I got a multitude of stubs.)