For your Monday Morning Edification (and perhaps complete waste of time? 🙂 ) Coca-Cola was originally green. The cost of raising a medium-size dog to[…]
1. A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue. 2. Women blink twice as much as men. 3. It’s physically impossible to lick your elbow. 4.[…]
From November 2015: 13. Jackie Bibby holds the record for sitting in a bathtub with the most live rattlesnakes. He sat in a tub[…]
1. Police arrested a man after he handed over a fake million-dollar bill at a Pittsburgh, PA, supermarket and asked for change. When staff refused[…]
1. The Sahara Desert is as large in area as the U.S.A. 2. Sir Godfey Kneller (1646 – 1723), famed English painter, was such a[…]
1. Longest Operation A 96-hour operation was performed on Mrs. Gertrude Levandowski from Feb 4 to Feb 8, 1951, in Chicago, to remove an ovarian[…]
The heaviest-ever rikishi, or sumo wrestler, is (was?) Samoan-American Salevaa Fuali Atisnoe (alias Konishiki) of Hawaii, who weighed in at 580 pounds at Tokyo’s Ryogaku Kokugikau[…]
The most times any person has been struck by lightning is seven. Ex-park ranger Roy C. Sullivan earned this dubious distinction over a 35-year period.[…]
8/18/14: The press response to President Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address was less than fantastic. The Chicago Times, for instance, felt Americans should be embarrassed by the ‘dish[…]
8/11/14: The Great Wall of China is the only man-made structure that is visible from space. Source: More Fascinating Facts by David Louis; Crown Publishers