Trivia & Fun Facts
epub |eng | 2009-12-04 | Author:Alan W. Petrucelli [Petrucelli, Alan W.]

Animal Planet CREATURE DISCOMFORTS Are You Sure This Is Crunchy Peanut Butter? JUMBO (1861-1885) the thirteen-foot tall elephant had quite the circus career thanks to all of P. T. Barnum’s ...
( Category: Trivia & Fun Facts September 5,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-08 | Author:Charles Fort [Fort, Charles]

16 Here is the shortest story that I know of: St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Nov. 2, 1886—a girl stepped from her home, to go to a spring. Still, though we shall ...
( Category: Occult & Paranormal September 4,2017 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-09-04 | Author:Charles Panati

Hair Dryer: 1920, Wisconsin The modern electric hair dryer was the offspring of two unrelated inventions, the vacuum cleaner and the blender. Its point of origin is well known: Racine, ...
( Category: Puzzles & Games September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-07 | Author:Charles Fort [Fort, Charles]

18 In a pamphlet entitled Wonderful Phenomena, by Curtis Eli, is the report of an occurrence, or of an alleged occurrence, that was investigated by Mr. Addison A. Sawin, a ...
( Category: Occult & Paranormal September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Bathroom Readers' Institute

World’s Biggest Islands Of the world’s 100 largest islands (Greenland is the biggest) 22 are Canadian. Here they are, listed by rank: 5Baffin Island 8Victoria Island 10Ellesmere Island 15Newfoundland 24Banks ...
( Category: Trivia & Fun Facts September 4,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-11-02 | Author:Jessica Kerwin Jenkins [Jenkins, Jessica Kerwin]

QABUS NAMA An eleventh-century Islamic etiquette guide Before chivalry brought them to their senses, Europe’s knights didn’t impress anyone. The twelfth-century Arab chronicler Ousâma watched horrified as Christian knights amused ...
( Category: Encyclopedias & Subject Guides September 3,2017 )
epub |eng | 2007-02-13 | Author:Karl Shaw [Shaw, Karl]

Chapter Five Crime & Punishment Har 10 d Ax to Follow: Ten Famous Executioners 1 The chief executioners of Constantinople during the Ottoman Empire excelled in diverse methods of dispatching ...
( Category: Trivia & Fun Facts September 2,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-01 | Author:Josh Chetwynd [Chetwynd, Josh]

Artificial Sweeteners: Sloppy scientists You’d think that rule number one when working with chemical compounds in a lab would be don’t taste anything unless you’re absolutely certain what you’re putting ...
( Category: Trivia & Fun Facts August 29,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Bathroom Readers' Institute

6.If you’re after catfish, the technique of choice is “noodling.” This works best in late spring and early summer—spawning season, when catfish stay close to their eggs. You’ll have to ...
( Category: Survival & Emergency Preparedness August 27,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-07-29 | Author:Scientific American Editors [Editors, Scientific American]

Walker, whose much-publicized report may inspire a new generation of bareheaded riders, won't make any specific recommendations to other cyclists (and neither will Scientific American), though he notes that when ...
( Category: Trivia & Fun Facts August 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-18 | Author:Charles Fort [Fort, Charles]

THE BOOK OF THE DAMNED Altogether our phantom resistance is mere attribution to the Mormons, without the slightest attempt to find base for the attribution. We think of messages that ...
( Category: Occult & Paranormal August 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-12-28 | Author:Cracked.Com [Cracked.Com]

Where it really gets weird . . . In 2008, the Wall Street Journal reported on a series of experiments being conducted with brain scanners in Germany, Norway, and the ...
( Category: Trivia & Fun Facts August 26,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-01-02 | Author:Noel Botham [Botham, Noel]

The Book of Useless Information The three cardinal virtues are faith, hope, and charity. It was only after 440 C.E. that December 25 was celebrated as the birth date of ...
( Category: Trivia & Fun Facts August 26,2017 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2015-05-12 | Author:Bathroom Readers' Institute

Grünewald Porter and Goya Stout. Nobody knows how to get messed up like an artist, right? That may have been the thinking at Santa Fe’s Duel Brewing when they named ...
( Category: Trivia & Fun Facts August 24,2017 )