Number 4 is considered an unlucky number in China because it is nearly homophonous to the word “death” (pinyin sǐ). In a study of five years’ worth of real estate sales in the greater Vancouver area, researchers found that houses in Chinese neighborhoods with an address containing a 4 sold for an average of $8,000 less than their luckier counterparts.
Most cave paintings were probably made by women. How do we know this? Well, on average, female hands have a ring finger that is shorter than the index finger (whereas in men, it’s the other way around), and this difference is believed to have been more pronounced among ancient people. Applying this rule to the hand prints left on cave paintings, scientists have come to the conclusion that nearly three-quarters of them were made by females.
Early telephones had no ringers and no hang-up hooks. Callers would get the attention of those they were calling by yelling loudly (often, “ahoy!”) into the receiver until someone on the other end noticed.
There is a condition in which you think you hear a loud bang as you fall asleep when none exists. More unsettling is the name: Exploding Head Syndrome.
A cave in France has the footprints of an 8- to 10-year-old boy left in the mud 26,000 years ago alongside the paw prints of either a wolf or a large dog, the oldest evidence of human/canine relationships ever found.
Laura Dekker circumnavigated the world single-handedly… when she was 14 years old.
1500 - Pedro Cabral departs with 13 ships to India
1551 - Emperor Karel appoints son Philip as heir to the throne
1964 - 1st Ford Mustang produced
1977 - Hanafi Muslims invade 3 buildings in Wash DC, siege ended Mar 11th
1991 - 5th American Comedy Award: Dennis Wolfberg
1993 - Rodney King in Simi Valley court says he thinks he heard cops yell racial slurs
1936 - Marty Ingels, Brooklyn New York, American comedian (I'm Dickens He's Fenster)
1960 - Mike Leach, Minneapolis Minn, tennis star
1965 - Brian Bosworth, NFL linebacker (Seattle), born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
1973 - Troy Bailey, WLAF DE (Scotland Claymores)
1977 - Radek Dvorak, Tabor Cze, NHL left wing (Florida Panthers)
1979 - Melina Perez, WWE Diva
1661 - Jules "Cardinal" Mazarin, chief minister of France, dies at 58
1800 - Dominique Della-Maria, composer, dies at 30
1895 - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Austrian writer (Masochism), dies at 59
1982 - Alan Badel, actor (Shogun), dies of a heart attack at 58
1992 - Felipe Turich, actor (Lawless), dies
2005 - Chris LeDoux, American country singer (b. 1948)
