In many European countries they have “Social Supermarkets” that allow the poor to buy discarded goods from normal supermarkets at very cheap prices.
In 1941, more than three million cars were manufactured in the United States. Only 139 more were made during the entire war. By the end of the war, more than half of all industrial production in the world would take place in the United States.
People in the UK driving on the left dates back to the 1700’s where travelers would keep passers by on their right in case they were a bandit, this meant their sword hand was at the ready to draw if needed.
During the Nazi occupation of France, Hitler did not destroy the Canadian Vimy Memorial and told the Allies that it remained intact, as he admired the peaceful nature of the sculpture.
There are two famous guys named Hippocrates. One for medicine and one for mathematics.
Oktoberfest beer is typically around 6% ABV, far stronger and sweeter than typical German lager. It’s easy to get dehydrated and many people pass out. These people are called Bierleichen (German for “Beer Corpses.”)
A chimpanzee named Frodo has impregnated his own mother, killed a human infant, attacked cartoonist Gary Larson, and beat the head of primatologist Jane Goodall so badly, he almost broke her neck.
The ‘Miss Cleo free tarot reading’ psychic hotline was generating $24 million a month for two years straight. The Miss Cleo herself only earned $1,750 for the three days it took to film the first infomercial.
There is a frog from Africa, Trichobatrachus robustus, that breaks a bone in its toe pad, pushes the sharp broken bone through it’s skin, and tries to shank you with it if it feels threatened.
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You can’t keep a good coffee down.
Found in Shenyang, China.
Submitted by Curro Higuero.
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530 - Boniface II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1529 - Cardinal Thomas Wolsey stripped of office as Lord Chancellor of England
1913 - Coal mine explosion kills 263 at Dawson New Mexico
1944 - Boulogne reoccupied by Allies
1988 - South Korean coaches attack NZ referee after disputing his decision, Olympic Korean boxer stages a 67 minute sit-in
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1919 - Jack Russell, Saratoga Springs NY, singer (Your Show of Shows)
1922 - Chen Ning Yang, China, US physicist/disproved parity (Nobel 1957)
1941 - Jeremiah Wright, American pastor
1946 - King Sunny Ade, Nigerian singer
1953 - Ségolène Royal, French politician
1978 - Ed Joyce, Irish-English cricketer
1197 - Petrus Cantor, French theologist (Verbum Abbreviatum), dies
1607 - Alessandro Agnolo Allori, Italian painter/carpet designer, dies at 72
1737 - Michel Pignolet de Monteclair, composer, dies at 69
1956 - Frederick Soddy, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate, dies at 79
1985 - Axel Springer, German newspaper magnate (Bild Zeitung), dies at 73
1994 - Leonard Geoffrey Feather, jazz critic/musician, dies at 80
