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Stranger Than Fiction: Rule Of Thumb

curtisrx — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:13:00 +0000

Did you know that the phrase “Rule Of Thumb” was derived from an archaic English law that stated you could not beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb?

Stranger Than Fiction: Dice

curtisrx — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:30:05 +0000

Did you know that in English gambling dens during the eighteenth century there was always an employee whose sole job was to swallow the dice in the event of a police raid?

Stranger Than Fiction: Coffee

curtisrx — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:45:02 +0000

Did you know that in Turkey during the 16th and 17th centuries anyone caught drinking coffee was put to death?

~Curtis Rx

Stranger Than Fiction: The Cashew

curtisrx — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:35:40 +0000

Did you know that raw unshelled cashews are poisonous and must be processed before than can be safely consumed?

~Curtis Rx

Stranger Than Fiction: World War II

curtisrx — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:22:23 +0000

Did you know that the very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II resulted in just one death, the only elephant in the Berlin zoo?

~Curtis Rx

Stranger Than Fiction: Dueling

curtisrx — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 22:23:05 +0000

Did you know that in Paraguay it is legal to participate in a duel as long as both parties are registered blood donors?

Sporting,
~Curtis Rx

Stranger Than Fiction: Charlie Chaplin II

curtisrx — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 22:04:27 +0000

Did you know that Charlie Chaplin’s body was stolen by grave robbers and eventually recovered eleven weeks later?

Perishable,
~Curtis Rx

Stranger Than Fiction: The Cell Phone

curtisrx — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:46:41 +0000

Did you know that in 1994, electromagnetic interference from a nearby cell phone caused a motorized wheelchair and its passenger to fall off a cliff in Colorado.

Exhilarating,
~Curtis Rx

Stranger Than Fiction: Jeremy Bentham

curtisrx — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:22:36 +0000

Did you know that the mummified remains of philosopher Jeremy Bentham, sans head, is on display in the lobby of the University College London?

Persevering,
~Curtis Rx

Stranger Than Fiction: Albert Einstein

curtisrx — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:02:46 +0000

Did you know that Albert Einstein’s brain was removed seven hours after his death and spent the next twenty five years hidden away inside a cardboard box in a basement?

Cerebral,
~Curtis Rx