other weird things I occasionally think about:
the fact that two very influential ancient greek philosophers, pythagoras and socrates, may well not have existed at all
the way the electromagnetic interaction and the weak interaction merge into one interaction at high energies
the fact that the helium flash involves rate terms proportional to Θ⁴⁰
the fact that a ton of people is really only like a dozen people
how (insert random historical figure here) had a neat name