In 2005, the British Medical Journal published a study to investigate the loss of workplace teaspoons.
New York-based hair stylist Mark Bustos gives free haircuts to the homeless every Sunday.
Your body is constantly replacing old cells with new ones at the rate of millions per second. By the time you finish reading this sentence, 50 million of your cells will have died and been replaced by others.
Having an orgasm can help a man’s body recover from illness, as the orgasm causes an increase in leukocytes, or natural killer cells, in a man’s blood.
In 2011, a man killed his wife inside the Walmart she was working at. Rather than close the store, they chose to just rope off the gore-splattered area while police investigated.
During WWI, Dominic “Fats” McCarthy was awarded the Victoria Cross after he, virtually unaided, killed 22 Germans, captured 5 machine guns, 50 prisoners, and half a kilometer of the German front. When it was over even the prisoners he’d captured patted him on the back for what he’d done.
Hugh Trenchard, a British soldier in the Boer War, was shot in the chest and spine, becoming partially paralyzed. He took up bobsledding as a hobby, and after a major accident regained use of his legs.
Knife manufacturer, Victorinox, claims never to have had to lay off an employee. To avoid this they set aside profits during boom periods to supplement recessionary periods, as well as temporarily contracting employees to other companies as outsourced labor during recessions.
1892 - NYC Metropolitan Opera House catches fire
1900 - Gabriel Faures opera/cantata "Prométhée" premieres in Beziers
1939 - Heinkel He-178 makes first manned flight with rocket/jet propulsion
1950 - 1st transmission of a TV programme from continental Europe shown on BBC
1960 - Anita Lonsbrough swims world/olympic record 200m (2:49.5)
1969 - Mike Procter hits six consecutive sixes (across two overs)
1665 - John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, English politician (d. 1751)
1874 - Karl Bosch, German chemist (BASF, Nobel 1931)
1905 - Frederick O'Neal, Brooksville Miss, actor (Car 54 Where Are You)
1913 - Stewart Crawford, British diplomat
1947 - Barbara Bach [Goldbach], Queens, New York, American actress (The Spy Who Loved Me, Force 10 from Navarone)
1970 - Andy Bichel, cricketer (Australian pace bowler v WI 1997)
1450 - Reginald West, 6th Baron De La Warr, English politician (b. 1395)
1651 - Jacob A Backer, painter, dies at about 43
1857 - Rufus Wilmot Griswold, American literary critic and editor (b. 1812)
1958 - Ernest O Lawrence, inventor (Cyclotron-Nobel 1939), dies at 57
1968 - Marina, princess of Greece/Denmark/Dutchess of Kent, dies at 61
1995 - Martin Louis "Marty" Paich, jazz arranger, dies at 70
