#odd facts

I don't care if it doesn't seem worth bringing up or if you think it's not cool enough.

Please fill my silence. I'm so lonely, and even if it's just words on a screen, it feels like my hand isn't empty when I'm learning.

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The other night while trying to remember Post Ranch Inn, I was looking around at old websites. I found some old Google sites site that looked like it was from about 2011, and had a whole bunch of random facts on it. Most of them were very familiar and well-known.

But, there were two things that made me go, wow, really?

Number One:

Okay, well, huh, never heard that, but honestly I've yet to see any press from London. So, I guess Mr. I Don't Believe in Method Acting decided to try it at least once. But, yeah, I'd also seem like a messed up junkie if I was neither eating nor sleeping.

Number Two:

God, I so want this to be true.

Please, please Universe - let this be true.

~ Wild ~

I made the flute I'm playing myself in 2019 when the flute I made before it broke as the result of using it in the river to wade around for agates and that is a fact.

I hate wearing shoes and sox but have a bit of surgical nerve damage in my right foot and I'm diabetic so I've been sentenced to life in shoes without parole.

Homunculus in ancient Greek meant a humanoid figure, specifically one created in the belly of a cow using human sperm. Homunculi were brought to attention by two men on YouTube (Kortney and Billschannel) who posted videos claiming to have created homunculi by mixing their own sperm with chicken eggs. All videos of homunculi are hoaxes using plaster, magnets, and video editing, BUT the homunculus is a real concept coming mainly from 16th century alchemists, but is believed to have been an idea dated as far back as the 3rd century AD in Visions of Zisimos (Zisimos being an Egyptian-born Greek alchemist and Gnostic Mystic). He wrote to have encountered a priest who could change himself into a "mutilated anthroparia"— anthroparia being a similar word to homunculus in Greek.

Homunculi first appear by name in De natura rerum, a writing by Paraclesus in 1537. The idea was also popular among Islamic alchemists: Takwin, also known as "the artificial creation of life in a laboratory" was a goal for many of them. 16th century alchemists may have also been influenced by earlier folk traditions, much like their superstitions with the mandragora or mandrake root were influenced. In Jewish folklore, though means of creation differ greatly, a homunculus could be loosely compared to a golem.

Homunculus was later used as a term in discussions about conception and birth. The term today is used in modern psychology as a teaching or memory tool to describe the distorted scale model of a human drawn or sculpted to reflect the relative space human body parts occupy in the somatosensory cortex and the motor cortex. (Aka, smart-person talk for "a distorted representation of the human body based on a neurological map of the areas and proportions of the brain dedicated to processing motor functions, or sensory functions for different parts of the body")

Medically speaking, homunculus can also refer to a fetus-like ovarian cystic terotomae, or a tumor made up of several different types of tissue such as hair, muscle, teeth, or bone, typically forming on the ovary, testicle, or tail bone.