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Welcome to CrossingMyMind.com (aka What Is This Website About?)

Thanks for stopping by my website! One of the things I love most is useless trivia: the cool things you hear or read about that will probably never be useful to you in any practical way, but are nonetheless cool and interesting in their own way. Things that fly in the face of logic, forgotten history, cool science facts, urban legends, conspiracy theories, and other things that, if you’re anything like me, you’ve spent way too many late nights learning about instead of doing that sleeping thing.

After years of sharing (or, as some might say, tormenting) everyone I know with my neverending stream of oddball facts, I decided to create this site to share all the little nuggets and tidbits I’ve picked up over the years (and continue to pick up at an alarming rate) with you, the internet reader.

I hope you enjoy reading about this stuff, and if you have other things you think would be interesting to see covered in a future post, shoot me an email at stu@crossingmymind.com and let me know!

The Only Time All Four Stooges Appeared On Screen Together

People who are old enough to remember the Three Stooges know that the lineup has changed a few times over the years: they’re probably most familiar with Larry, Curly, and Moe as the definitive trio, and they know that Curly was replaced by Shemp at some point, and then other stand-in stooges in later years. There was, however, one time and one time only that all four original Stooges appeared on screen together.

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What Everybody Missed About The Ending Of Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise Of Skywalker

It’s amazing how the ending of Rise of Skywalker went over so many peoples’ heads. Okay, so Ben Solo became Kylo Ren and did the things he did because he was driven to live up to the legacy of his grandfather Darth Vader, whom he worshipped to such an extreme degree that he kept his burnt skull, talked to it, and promised to finish what Vader began. This need (and fear of failing) was referenced constantly, but Kylo Ren ruling the galaxy with an iron fist was NOT where that storyline ended up leading.

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Fan Theory: The Jetsons And The Flintstones Live On The Same Planet At The Same Time

Hanna-Barbera was responsible for two of the most famous TV cartoons of all time: the Flintstones and the Jetsons. Both were essentially the same kind of story: a sitcom about a typical American family, but the Flintstones lived in prehistoric times with saber-tooth tigers and dinosaurs, while the Jetsons lived in the future with flying cars and robot maids…or did they? One fan theory suggests that, despite the obvious differences on the surface, the Flintstones and Jetsons might not be as separated by time as we would be led to believe.

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How Old Classic TV Characters Would Be Today

Part of the magic of television is that the characters are forever young. No matter how many times you watch ’em, or how long it’s been since the episodes originally ran, the characters on your favorite shows are eternally locked in time. But what if they aged the same as the rest of us? How old would these characters be in real world terms?

With that question in mind, I assembled a list of all-time favorite TV characters and, using a combination of the years the shows ran and their stated ages in the show to work out how old each of them would be today.

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The Counter-Earth Theory: Is There Another Earth On The Other Side Of The Sun?

The possibility that life may exist elsewhere in the universe has captivated the minds of many. The fact that we have yet to find any smoking gun evidence of alien life has led to a lot of theories about where and under what circumstances we might find them if they’re out there, and one theory suggests that there might be another Earth right here in our own solar system, complete with its own life and civilization, but it’s just somewhere we can’t see it.

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Emperor Norton: America’s First And Only Emperor (Kind Of)

The United States has kind of a reputation for not doing the whole royalty thing: we get that it’s kind of baked into a lot of other countries’ cultures, and if it works for you, great, more power to you. Here in America, we decided early on not to put executive power in the hands of someone with a crown on their head, but one man had the vision and the courage to not only advocate for a return to royal rule, but took it a step further and declared himself the ruler of this new monarchy, and that man was Norton I: Emperor of the United States.

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The Amazon River Has A Much, Much Bigger River Running Directly Underneath It

As you may or may not know, the Amazon River is either the first or second biggest river on Earth (depending on what you consider part of the river and whether we’re going by length or volume). But scientists seem to have found another river that’s WAY bigger than the Amazon, follows more or less the same course, except instead of the traditional river as we think of it, it’s an underground river (or aquifer) flowing some 13,000 feet (or around 4,000 meters) below the surface of the Earth.

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Point Nemo: The Most Remote Location On Earth

We all get that feeling every now and then: we’re stressed out by our everyday lives, work is giving us agita, you’re losing sleep over school, and if you spend one more minute stuck in your daily commute, you’ll want to start exploring ways through the other cars instead of past them. The good news is that, if you want to get as far from people as you possibly can for a little while, I know exactly the place for you!

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