Oh how I love these types of books. I just adore learning new incredibly bizarre stuff about everything in the universe. It’s awesome! Actual definition not the gushy over used version of that word.
Who knew a yak’s milk is pink? Or a lab mouse/rat runs on average 5 miles per day on that wheel in their cages. Or that Al Capone’s business card said he was a used furniture salesman? Johnny Depp is descended from the first female slave in the United States to sue for her freedom and win! Elvis Presley owned a chimpanzee named Scatter? Wonder if that is where his son-in-law got the idea? The Dahari tribe in India has a practice that all the brothers in a family can pool their money and buy a wife they all share. When “The Sound of Music,” was released in South Korea, it turned out to be too long for local audience’s taste so the local distributor cut out all the songs. Paintball guns were originally invented as a way of marking cattle for slaughter. Adolph Hitler was declared Time magazine’s “Man of the Year, 1938.” U. S. President James A. Garfield could simultaneously write Latin with one hand and Greek with the other. Or how about every time you lick a stamp you consume one-tenth of a calorie? Man, who knew sending out wedding announcements or holiday cards could be fattening? Love this book. Warning – some things here are pretty gross but there are a whole lot more really interesting tid bits I couldn’t put in this family posting. Nudge, nudge, wink, wink.
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