Just another cold and crappy day in Maine and if you want live here you’d better learn to love this insane winter weather. I seem to run a bit slower when it’s cold and nasty and my desire to post long and involved articles has disappeared. Today will be another “mish/mosh” of interesting and sometimes strange facts you may not be familiar with. Here we go . . . .

• The continent with the highest literacy rate is Antarctica.

• The country of Saudi Arabia really does import a better quality sand to make glass.

• The Smithsonian archives allegedly hold a jar containing a rubber mold of John Dillinger’s penis.

• The United States bought Alaska from Russia for a price that equated to under two cents per acre.

• Soviet scientists once tried to create a human/chimpanzee hybrid. It failed.

• Confederate general Robert E. Lee didn’t own slaves, but Union general Ulysses S. Grant did.

• People in the Roman Empire actually used human urine as mouthwash.

• Adolph Hitler had a nephew, William Hitler, AKA William Stuart-Houston, who served in the U.S Navy during the war.

• The kazoo was invented by a gentleman named Alabama Vest.

• During WW1 Americans referred to sauerkraut as “liberty cabbage”.

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The male Argonaut Octopus mates by detaching it’s sex organ and flinging it towards the female.

(Very interesting & more than a little scary.)