Animals, Aerial Stunts, and Queens from the Grave

Описание: 🦋 Greatest Hits of 1960 – Part 2 | From Monarch Migrations to the Man Who Fell Up | Strange As It Seems

What do a suicidal lion in the Tower of London, a fish known only to a few North Carolina rivers, and a daredevil who fell upward from the top wing of an airplane all have in common?

They were all true—strange as it seems.

In this extraordinary second installment from the 1960 “greatest hits” file, Jeff Hix, curator of the Strange As It Seems archives, unearths a rich tapestry of weird wonders—from the animal kingdom to the annals of human eccentricity. Originally compiled by Elsie Hix (Jeff’s grandmother and a pioneering woman in comics publishing), this archive pulls together some of the most bizarre facts ever published by the Hix family across the 1930s, '40s, and '50s.

🧠 In this episode:
– The Flicker bird and its 125+ nicknames
– The Penitentiary Tom, a rare catfish with many names and even more myths
– A butterfly migration mystery that still baffles science
– The woman crowned Queen of Portugal—after death
– The grebe that feeds its babies its own feathers
– The riddle: Can you write the number 6 while your foot moves clockwise? (Try it!)
– Why corn is the world’s most mysterious crop
– A pilot thrown into the sky mid-stunt... and caught by the neck
– And how 1.25 million lives were saved by medicine - in just one decade

🗝️ Proofs include letters, affidavits, conservation reports, and museum bulletins—reminding us that the truth really is stranger than fiction.

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🔔 Stay tuned at the end for a vintage comic callback and a shoutout to a forgotten pilot we called "The Luckiest Man Alive!".