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Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.
Fact: South American river turtles talk in their eggs
Turtles don’t have vocal cords, and their ears are internal, so scientists believed that turtles were deaf and didn’t communicate through sounds. But research has found that turtles actually communicate at an extremely low frequency that sounds like “clicks, clucks, and hoots” that can only be heard through a hydrophone (a microphone used underwater). These sounds even come from the egg before the turtle hatches. Researchers hypothesize that this helps all the turtle siblings hatch at once.
Fact: Penicillin was first called “mold juice”
In 1928, bacteriologist Alexander Fleming left a petri dish in his lab while he was on vacation—only to return and find that some liquid around the mold had killed the bacteria in the dish. This became the world’s first antibiotic, but before naming it penicillin, he called it “mold juice.” Here are more accidental discoveries that changed the world.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
Fact: The first stroller was engineered to be pulled by a goat (or animal of similar size)
William Kent, a landscape architect, invented the first stroller for the third Duke of Devonshire in 1733. But upper-class parents were hardly expected to put effort into transporting their children around, so Kent designed his model to be pulled by a small animal, like a goat.
Fact: May 20, 1873, is the “birthday” of blue jeans
According to the Levi Strauss company, this was the day that Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis, the innovators behind the sturdy blue jeans we all love, got a patent on the process of adding metal rivets to men’s denim work pants. The pants were called waist overalls until 1960, when baby boomers began calling them jeans. And FYI, this is why blue is the most popular denim color.
Fact: 170-year-old bottles of champagne were found at the bottom of the Baltic Sea
The bottles of bubbly are believed to have been traveling from Germany to Russia during the 1800s when they sank to the bottom of the sea, according to New Scientist. It turns out that the bottom of the sea, where temperatures are between two and four degrees Celsius, is a great place for wine aging. Wine experts sampled the champagne and described it as “sometimes cheesy” with “animal notes” and elements of “wet hair.” Mmm.
Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen!
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Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
You can say that again, but it is not actually for me.
They drink with impunity, or anybody who invites them.
The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.
How you doing these days @MrEd ? Staying busy ?
Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.
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Fact: The MGM lion roar is trademarked
At the start of any movie made by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio, the iconic lion roars at the audience. While MGM has gone through several iterations of lion mascots, the sound of the roar is always the same. The company trademarked the “sound mark” with the United States Patent and Trademark Office in the 1980s. Believe it or not, these famous phrases are also trademarked.
All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic.
Fact: Neil Armstrong’s hair was sold in 2004 for $3,000
The lucky buyer, John Reznikoff, holds the Guinness World Record for the largest collection of hair from historical celebrities, reports NBC. But Armstrong’s lawyers threatened to sue Marx Sizemore, the not-so-lucky barber who cut the former astronaut’s hair; they said he violated an Ohio law that protects the rights of famous people. Sizemore said he wouldn’t pay, and Reznikoff said he wouldn’t give back the hair but that he’d donate $3,000 to charity.
Fact: Irish bars used to be closed on Saint Patrick’s Day
You might associate Saint Patrick’s Day with wearing green and drinking so much you think you actually see leprechauns. But until 1961, there were laws in Ireland that banned bars from opening on March 17. Since the holiday falls during the period of Lent in the heavily Catholic country, the idea of binge-drinking seemed a bit immoral.
Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony.
Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.
At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one.
Santa Claus has the right idea—visit people only once a year.
Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
Kea parrots laugh together when they're in a good mood.
Kea parrots are the first known non-mammal species to communicate with laughter.