The Angel Island mouse is a species of rodent that was found on the Mexican island of Ángel de la Guarda, and its nearby islands. Scientists believe that the species is probably extinct due to feral cats killing them off in those islands.
However, it is believed that the entire population of an islet to the south of Ángel de la Guarda was killed off by ONE cat that was present in the island between 1998 and 1999!
This makes the title sound a lot more boring and common than modern usage. However, it makes sense, because in old Germanic tradition, the chieftain of the tribe would keep and protect the food and distribute it to his followers.
Similarly, "Lady" the female equivalent of Lord can be traced back to the Old English word that means "loaf-kneader."
Tom Moore Jr was a Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives. Tired of his fellow congressmen not reading the laws that they were passing, he decided to play an April's Fools on the chamber just to prove his point.
He drafted up a resolution on April 1, 1971 that praised Albert de Salvo (known as The Boston Strangler) for his "dedication and devotion to his work" and that he "enabled the weak and lonely to maintain concern for the future." The Texas legislature passed this resolution, despite the fact that The Boston Strangler was responsible for 13 murders!
Tom Moore withdrew the resolution right after it passed, scolding his fellow members and explained that he was only trying to prove a point.
Nguyen Thi Phuong switched her medicine to treat an allergic reaction to seafood. She was only 23, and what she didn't know was that this would cause her skin to become sagged and wrinkly within a few days!
Doctors are still trying to figure out what happened. Their best theory is that she has a rare syndrome called Lipodystrophy. This syndrome causes the fatty tissue beneath the skin to disappear and make the skin saggy because it's still growing!
While they're still testing to see what the cause to her problem is, doctors think they might be able to restore about 50 to 70% of her skin. As of now, she still has the voice of a young woman, as well as black hair. They're the only visible signs that she's not 73!
Imagine how different US history would have been if this 1916 proposal would have gone through. The proposal went even further and said that any person who voted "Yes" would automatically be enlisted into the army! Of course, the US constitution is extremely hard to change, and the success rate of amendments is less than 1% so it failed to pass. Here's a few other interesting (aka crazy) proposed amendments:
• 1876: an attempt to abolish the United States Senate
• 1893: renaming this nation the “United States of the Earth”
• 1912: making marriage between races illegal
