Editor's note: This article has been updated to include another strange thing. Well, I laughed. That's the kind of thing "Cracked.com" won't inform you about

Editor's note: This article has been updated to include another strange thing. Well, I laughed. That's the kind of thing "Cracked.com" won't inform you about on their "Seven strangest occurrences in the financial markets" list. Hats off to the Bloomberg Editors. But interest rates have been steadily coming down since the early Reagan years, and any reverse is going to be an epochal change. And that's where we are.