Brain-eating amoeba exist and you might contract them from swimming in lakes or tainted tap water. They live in the U.S. and U.K.
Green grass that covers nearly every lawn in America is not native to the Americas. The Europeans brought it over when they settled and it slowly dominated prairie grass.
These are some of the most bold things ever said by people in or before battle:
“I come in peace. I didn’t bring artillery. But I’m pleading with you, with tears in my eyes: If you f*ck with me, I’ll kill you all.”
-James Mattis to the recently defeated Iraqi military leaders.
“We’ve been looking for the enemy for some time now. We’ve finally found him. We’re surrounded. That simplifies things.”
-Chesty Puller, during the Battle of Chosin Reservoir.
“Before We’re Through With Them, the Japanese Language Will Be Spoken Only in Hell.”
-William Halsey Jr., as he surveyed the damage at Pearl Harbor.
We all know Sir Isaac Newton was a brilliant mathematician and scientist, but the discoverer of gravity also had flashes of odd behavior. He once stuck a large needle into his eye socket to test his theories about vision, and later in life completely withdrew from his friends, becoming paranoid and confused. It is thought that he may have gone mad after poisoning himself in metal experiments.
1934 - WOQ-AM in KC Missouri goes off the air
1966 - Miami beats St Petersburg (Florida State League) 4-3 in 29 innings longest uninterrupted game in organized baseball
1975 - Janis Ian releases "At 17"
1979 - Rock group "Little Feat" disbands
1981 - No Nukes concert at Hollywood Bowl
1991 - "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves" opens
1844 - Edouard Naville, Swiss egyptologist
1870 - Sophia of Prussia, consort of Constantine I of Greece (d. 1932)
1973 - Michael Cade, NJ, actor (Sylvester Winkle-California Dreams)
1973 - Ceca Raznatovic, Serbian singer
1975 - Chris Onstad, American cartoonist
1984 - Lorenzo Booker, American football player
1594 - Orlandus Lassus, composer (Prophet sybillarum), dies at about 61
1907 - Bob McLeod, cricketer (bro of Charlie, 6 Tests for Aus 1891-93), dies
1926 - Mary Cassatt, American Impressionist artist (b. 1844)
1994 - Mark Alexander Lees, rowing Coach, dies at 38
1997 - Henry C Gordon, USAF/astronaut (Dynasoar), dies at 71
2005 - Carlo Maria Giulini, Italian conductor (b. 1914)
During prohibition, the US government ordered poison be added to industrial alcohol to discourage consumption. People continued to drink it, so the government mandated more potent poison and it killed as many as 10,000 people.
An investment bank which lost 75% of its employees in 9/11 sued American Airlines for negligence in allowing terrorists on board, and won $135 million.
