By Count Friedrich von Olsen
A few things of interest I have come across…
There is a type of banana that was eaten regularly for thousands of years up to about 60 years ago when it was wiped out by a plague. The taste of those bananas in comparison to the bananas we enjoy today was averred by most people to be distinctly different and superior. That flavor has seemingly been lost forever…
John Tyler, who was both the tenth President of the United States from 1841 to 1845 and the tenth vice president in 1841, lived from March 29, 1790 until January 18, 1862. As of today, two of his grandsons, Lyon Gardiner Tyler Jr., who was born in 1924, and Harrison Ruffin Tyler, who was born in 1928, are still living…
King Tut’s parents were brother and sister…
The Israelis offered Albert Einstein the presidency of their country. He turned them down, saying he’d rather not get involved in politics. He was one smart cookie…
The Satanic leaf-tailed gecko of Madagascar is capable of absolutely camouflaging itself, appearing indistinguishable from its leafy surroundings…
The bacteria that live within the human intestine find the appendix to be a most hospitable place, one that offers a vacation of sorts from the intensive digestive activity elsewhere in the guts of their host and a place where they can breed, which brings us to the next interesting fact…
Toilet paper in France is pink. I know this from personal experience…
There are chemical constituents within gin that cannot be metabolized. In other words, a portion of the gin you drink comes out in the very same form it went in…
By law, a pregnant woman can urinate anywhere she is inclined to in Britain…
A typical snail’s teeth number in excess of 10,000…
If the Chinese were to dig a hole straight down and pierce the center of the earth and keep going straight to pop up on the other side of the world they would surface in Argentina…
Wooly Mammoths were yet living as recently as 3,668 years ago…
It is impossible to sneeze while you are asleep. If you get the urge to sneeze while you are unconscious, you must wake up to actually do so…