57% of the bicentennial souveniers sold in Washington, DC, in 1975 were made in Japan.Leon Czolgosz, the man killed for assassinating President William McKinley, shot the president, but didn't kill him. What killed him was having five holes (one three feet long) drilled into him by his doctors in a vain attampt to find the bullet.Frederich Nietzsche, possible the greatest German philosopher of the 19th century, reportedly went insane after hugging a horse that was being beaten.NOTE: This one has caused some debate. While it is fairly certain that Nietzsche has syphillis, which causes a kind of insanity, I didn't mean to say that hugging the horse caused the insanity.
Thomas Jefferson and George Bush had something in common after all. They were the only American presidents who were left-handed. Jefferson was also the only red-headed president. I have been informed that Bill Clinton is also left-handed. A woman's vagina is hazardous to the health of a man's sperm. To help ensure fertilization by helping the sperm live longer, the woman should lower the acidity of her vagina by having orgasms.O.K., it's a little risque, but what can I do? I didn't make it up.
The tampon, that necessity for many women ery month or so, was deved by a man.Hebrew has more words for "penis" than any other language.October 4, 1996 -- President James Garfield was killed by Charles Guiteau, a former evangelistic preacher, because he didn't make Guiteau Ambassador to France after Guiteau wrote a rather mediocre speech for him.October 7, 1996 --
The Haskell Free Opera House lies directly on the border beween the USA and Canada (in Rock Island, Quebec, and Derby Line, Vermont). It is currently undergoing renovations, but there are 2 electrical crews, 2 plumbing crews, 2 architects, etc. Due to the laws between the two countries, American crews must be used on the American side and Canadian crews on the Canadian side. An example -- the elevator was to be installed in the US, but the steel casing for it was bought in Canada. US government officials wouldn't let Canadian steel workers assemble it in the US, so it was put together in Canada and dropped into place by a crane (parked in Canada) on the US side of the building.October 11, 1996 --
Gerald Ford is a plethora of factoids. A couple of the less interesting ones are that he's the only president to survive two assassination attempts and that he's the only president to have an assassination attempt made on him by a woman. Make that two women. Both the people that tried to kill him were women.October 14, 1996 -- In 1912 Theodore Roosevelt was shot in the chest in Milwaukee while campaigning for President. Despite the wound, he went on with a scheduled speech.October 22, 1996 --
The world's largest blooming flower has a fragrance remarkably like rotting flesh.October 28, 1996 -- At 10.2 pounds per person, Green Bay Wisconson has the greatest per capita consumption of potato chips in the United States.October 31, 1996 -- It has been scientifically proven that -- when there are no outside forces acting upon it -- toast will always fall with the buttered side down.November 4, 1996 -- The first game in the modern National Football League (NFL) to ever go into overtime was won by . . . nobody. It was played to a tie.November 12, 1996 -- The first female Senator, Rebecca L. Felton of Georgia, served only one day in November 1922. She holds the distinction of being the oldest freshman Senator (she was 87) as well as being the shortest tenured.November 18, 1996 -- Mules (offspring of donkey and mare) widely believed to be sterile, have on occasion produced offspring, as have hinnies (offspring of stallion and she-ass). Fertile she-mules mated with donkeys have produced mules, while she-mule mated with stallions have produced horse foals. It is all the more remarkable since donkeys have 62 chromosomes while horses have
64.Credit this one to Caine, who has his own science-based factoid page November 22, 1996 -- The Farenheit scale of temperature is based on a mistake. Zero degrees was meant to be the freezing point of equal amounts salt and water (which is correct, to my understanding), and the 100 degree mark was meant to be the body temperature of the average human being. He used as a test subject for the higher end someone who was running a slight fever.November 26, 1996 -- The biggest part of bird crap isn't crap at all. The fecal matter is the black speck in it. All the white is actually urine. Oooo, something about bird crap right before Thanksgiving. How about that?December 9, 1996 --
On July 17, 1996, a London appeals court ruled that a wife could annul her marriage because (after 17 years) she just found out her husband wasn't a man.
December 16, 1996 -- The eruption of Mt. Saint Helens in 1980 spewed enough volcanic ash to cover Manhattan Island in 28 stories of the stuff.
