Mythbusters tested breast size and its correlation with cash tips received by a restaurant server – they found men tipped their large-boobed server 30% more, but women tipped her 40% more.
A man cracked the code to winning scratch lottery tickets, but calculated it would only net him $600/day and instead of secretly plundering the game, he decided to report the problem to the Lottery and Gaming Corporation.
Entry level NASA Astronauts only make $64,724 per year. Senior level Astronauts top out at just $141,715.
Russia has a vast diamond field containing “trillions of carats”, enough to supply global markets for another 3000 years. The field was discovered in the 1970s underneath 35 million year-old asteroid crater in Siberia.
A set of 19 questions such as “Do we have the right patient?” and “What operation are we performing?” can reduce surgical deaths by more than 40%.
1668 - England takes control of Bombay, India
1799 - Napoleon captures Jaffa, Palestine
1937 - William H Hastie becomes 1st black federal judge (Virgin Islands)
1982 - Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder release "Ebony and Ivory" in the UK
1986 - Geffen records signs Guns and Roses
1997 - "Annie" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC
1916 - Sterling Hayden, NJ, actor (Dr Strangelove, Asphalt Jungle, Cobra)
1923 - Gert Bastian, German politician (d. 1992)
1925 - Maqsood Ahmed, cricketer (Pakistani batsman in 16 Tests 1952-56)
1942 - Erica Jong, [Mann], author (Fear of Flying), born in NYC, New York
1950 - Graham Barlow, cricketer (England batsman in 3 Tests 1976-77)
1969 - Vikram Rathour, cricketer (Indian Test opening batsman 1996-)
1258 - Floris, the Guardian, count-regent of Holland, dies
1945 - Isaack Stouten, resistance fighter, shot to death at 29
1948 - Helen Ernst, German poster artist/resistance fighter, dies at about 43
1959 - Raymond T Chandler, US detective writer (Long Goodbye), dies at 71
2008 - Robert Fagles, American translator and professor (b. 1933)
2011 - Roger Abbott, Canadian comedian (Air Farce Live) (b. 1946)
