Mailing an entire building has been illegal in the U.S. since 1916 when a man mailed a 40,000 ton brick house across Utah to avoid high freight rates.
A 19 year old man dove 85 feet into the ocean to wrestle an 80 pound octopus with a 9 foot diameter to the surface in a 25 minute epic battle in which he punched the octopus subduing it after it turned red and lunged at him tearing off his respirator. He drove it home, cooked it up, and ate it.
The founder of Kodak, George Eastman killed himself because he had accomplished everything he felt necessary to do and didn’t feel like waiting for his diabetes to kill him slowly.
A billionaire on house arrest in Florida was allowed to charter a plane and fly himself and his guards to Texas to see his ailing mother.
A man in Taiwan was mauled by a lion after he jumped into their enclosure with a bible in an attempt to convert them to Christianity.
A Las Vegas mental hospital used commercial buses to “dump” more than 1,500 psychiatric patients in 48 states over five years.
In 2011, a pair of managers from Dominos set fire to a Papa Johns to boost their sales.
According to one researcher, ancients such as Alexander the Great were sometimes buried in honey. After about a hundred years, candied corpses were supposedly dug up and eaten as medicine.
We typically do not start to think of foods as “too sweet” until our bone growth stops. Younger children have virtually no limit to the amount of sugar they find palatable.
In World War II, British soldiers got a ration of three sheets of toilet paper a day. Americans got 22.
In Chicago in 1918 one hundred waiters were taken into custody for poisoning the drinks of people who tipped them poorly.
Photo courtesy of Stephen Fein.
Sign found in Phuket, Thailand warning
tourists to watch out for blind pedestrians.
1923 - Young Stribling held light-heavyweight boxing championship for shortest amount of time (3 hrs). Referee overturns decision
1940 - French Vichy-regime proclaims end of "Statut of the Juifs"
1952 - "Top Banana" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 356 perfs
1983 - Richard Noble reaches record 1019 kph in jet-powered car
1994 - Keith Moore is charged with stealing $5,000,000 from Sting
1996 - BPAA US Bowling Open by Dave Husted
1932 - Felicia Farr, Westchester NY, actress (Charley Varrick, Kotch)
1943 - Buddy Roemer, (Gov/Rep-D-LA, 1981- )
1969 - Lucas Parsons, Sydney NSW, Australasia golfer
1973 - Chris Parks, American wrestler
1979 - Stefan Booth, British actor
1980 - Kristina Lenko, Canadian ice skater
1851 - Manuel de Godoy, Spanish statesman (b. 1767)
1859 - Karl Baedeker, German tour guide (Die Schweiz), dies at 57
1892 - Guillaume Van Kerckhoven, Belgian captain, dies at 39
1893 - Pieter J Elout van Soeterwoude, MP (AR), dies at 88
1974 - Anne Sexton, US poetess (Pulitzer 1967), dies at 45
1975 - Joan Whitney Payson, owner of New York Mets, dies at 72
