The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
I was a truck driver in LA, going to City College, and I tried to sign up for a class in ceramics, but it was full. So I signed up for architecture. It was an accident.
People are curious. A few people are. They will be driven to find things out, even trivial things. They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken.