Did you know …
That until the 1930s, most people believed that Earth’s moon was an optical illusion, caused by starlight reflecting off of the oceans and then refracting in the upper atmosphere? It’s true! What a bunch of dummies!
Some historians propose that President James Garfield’s assassination was motivated by him expressing the unpopular opinion that this widely held belief about the moon was erroneous. It’s too bad, because even if this theory is true, Garfield himself believed that the moon was, “the palest eye of our Christian God, watching us in our nocturnal sinnations. He sees us sinning in the kitchen, His eye watches us sin in the water closet, and even in the bath we cannot escape His Great Vision. Especially not in the bath.” Obviously this isn’t true either, because the notion of astronauts, almost a century later, walking on God’s eyeball is pretty crazy. Doesn’t seem fair that JG had to die just for being a crazy person.
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