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It seems to be a good day for another dose of Mish/Mosh. This post will include odd facts, proverbs, and quotes from well-known people.
“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.” Benjamin Franklin
- The first animal to be domesticated by humans was not a dog, sheep, horse, or pig. Approximately 12,0000 BC, 14,000 years ago along the Russian/Mongolian border reindeer were lured away from migratory groups and bred domestically.
“The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.” Alfred Adler
- If you are dehydrated virtually any fluid will help hydrate you, but not sea water. Alcohol is fine and so are tea and coffee. There is no scientific basis that fluids other than water cause dehydration.
“The missing link between animals and human beings is most likely ourselves.” Konrad Lorenz
- The original discovery of penicillin was from the far past where Bedouin tribesmen in North Africa made a healing ointment from the mold on donkey harnesses for more than a thousand years.
“The greatest of all inventors is accident.” Mark Twain
- The ball point pen was invented and patented in 1938 by Laszlo Biro and his brother Gyorgy. They immigrated to Argentina in 1940 to avoid the Nazis and repatented it there in 1943. One of their earliest customer was the RAF encouraged by the pens performance at high altitudes.
“A hen is only an eggs way of making another egg.” Samuel Butler
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THE WEIRDER THE BETTER
Are you loving this GD cold weather and snow as much as I am. Trapped in my house patiently waiting for the oil delivery to arrive so I can shell out 400 more dollars to keep my water lines from freezing. Even my man-cave is suffering. No matter what I do it remains quite chilly and making typing this post a real chore. Here is a little sample of obscure Art related mish/mosh and now I can return upstairs to the warm rooms. Enjoy . . . .
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- Before he became an artist Vincent van Gogh worked as an evangelist in Belgium.
- American Gothic, the famous painting of a couple with a pitchfork, was done by Grant Wood in 1930. The couple that posed for the painting were his dentist and his sister.
- The actual name of the famous painter El Greco was Domenikos Theotokopoulos.
- Painter Paul Gauguin was once a stockbroker.
- American painter Norman Rockwell became the art director of Boy’s Life magazine while he was still a teenager.
- The National Gallery of Art opened in Washington DC on March 17, 1941.
- Charles M. Shultz’s comic strip Peanuts debuted in October, 1950.
- The deep red sunset seen in Norwegian Edward Munch’s The Scream is believed to reflect the intense sunsets seen throughout the world following the eruption of the Indonesian volcano Krakatoa.
- Leonardo Da Vinci’s fresco, The Last Supper, is located in the Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, Italy.
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WHEN IN DOUBT, KISS AN ARTIST
I’ve always been fascinated by facts that aren’t commonly known. We humans use thousands of products each year and have little or no idea where or when those products originated and who were the geniuses that created them. Todays post will list a number of miscellaneous facts on a wide selection of topics.
- Modern glass products will take at least 4,000 years to decompose.
- It is considered rude to talk with your hands on your hips in Indonesia.
- Mother Teresa, known for caring for the children of India, was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Albania. She lived from 1910 to 1997.
- Christmas cards were first sent in London in 1843.
- The first kiss ever seen in a movie was in 1896. The movie was called The Kiss.
- Russian cosmonaut Valentina V. Tereshkova was the first women in space in 1963.
- The Pennsylvania Dutch believe that if a woman eats the last piece of bread, she will become an “old maid”.
- The first Thanksgiving at Plymouth Rock lasted three days.
- In Britain a black cat is considered lucky. In the US not so much.
- In ancient Greece the herb parsley was associated with death.
- It is unlucky to wear the color white at a Chinese wedding.
- Famous advice columnists Dear Abby and Ann Landers were identical twins.
My Fav
In Arizona it is illegal to have more than two dildoes in a house.
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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.)
Here are a few random trivia facts to start off your weekend.
- The Bryan Adams” famous song “Summer of 69” is named after the sex act, not the year.
- The very first television commercial was for watches and aired in 1941.
- Actor Jim Caviezel was struck by lightning while portraying Jesus in the movie Passion of the Christ.
- The word “Fuck” was once said 935 times in a movie: Swearnet, The Movie.
- Steven Spielberg submitted the movie, Schindler’s List as his final project for film school.
- President John Adams had a dog named Satan.
- It has been estimated that in1939, the first televised football was watched by approximately 1,000 viewers.
- The objects humans have sent to space include pictures of human sex organs, sea urchin sperm, a pizza, the remains of the man who discovered Pluto, and Elon Musk’s Tesla car.
- When a worker bee mates with the queen his penis explodes.
- The capital of Nevada is actually west of Los Angeles.
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And here’s one that hits close to home.
Marijuana and the hops in beer come from the same plant family.
(Gummies with a beer chaser!)
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FIVE SHOPPING DAYS LEFT
I’m sitting here looking out the window and watching our first snowfall of 2025. If their estimate proves accurate we’ll have 7-10 inches by morning. From listening to the experts it does appear this may be the start of one helluva bad winter. I’m well prepared with a full can of gas, a working snowblower, and a desire to go play in the snow a little. If you’re in the same predicament then sit back in your warm and comfy chair to enjoy some interesting and varied trivia facts. Here we go . . .
- Leonard Skinner was the name of the gym teacher of the boys who went on to form the band Lynyrd Skynyrd. He once told them “You boys will never amount to nothing.” The band’s front man, Ronnie Van Zant, decided to adopt the name but change the spelling, as a joke on his former teacher.
- Richard Gere’s middle name is Tiffany.
- Goldie Hawn’s career as an actress-comedienne was launched after she was spotted as a dancer in the chorus line on The Andy Griffith Show in 1966.
- Keith Moon of the band, The Who, inspired the Muppet drummer Animal.
- Under the Motion Picture censorship code, which was effective from 1934 to 1968, a screen kiss could only last 30 seconds before being labeled “indecent.”
- In the early episodes of Start Trek, Dr. McCoy’s medical scanner was just an ordinary saltshaker.
- The blood in the famous shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho was in fact Hershey’s chocolate syrup.
- A snake has the best heat-detecting equipment in nature. Using the two organs between its eyes and nostrils it can locate a mouse by its body heat at a distance of 15 miles.
- In a survey of 80,000 American women it was found that those who drank moderately had only half the heart-attack risk of those who didn’t drink at all.
- When you sneeze, all your bodily functions stop – including the heart.
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Here’s one of my Fav’s. If your a true fan of the Olympics you’ll love it too.
Nudity was considered perfectly acceptable in ancient Greece, but it was declared indecent if a man revealed an erection.
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I thought today I would add a few little known Science facts. With all of the space related science discussions of late I thought this would be a good time to join in. Enjoy!
- In five years, a woman who wears lipstick will use enough to draw a line equal to her height.
- Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average man never trimmed his beard, it would grow nearly 30 feet long in his lifetime.
- A general rule of thumb for distinguishing fruits from vegetables: For fruits, seeds are on the inside; for vegetables, seeds are on the outside.
- Tomatoes are native to the Americas and were initially cultivated by Aztec Indians as early as A.D. 700. They are also a common source of allergies.
- The roller coaster was invented and patented in Ohio by a toboggan designer, John Miller in 1926. It featured small cars sliding down incline ramps.
- The barcode was patented in 1952 by Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver. In June of 1974, the first barcode scanner was installed at a Marshes supermarket in Troy, Ohio. The first product to carry a barcode was Wrigley’s gum.
- IBM called its first laptop computer “The Convertible”. It was the size of a suitcase.
- On April 12, 1934, the highest surface wind speed ever recorded occurred over Mount Washington, New Hampshire. It was clocked at 231 miles per hour.
- The 400 mg of nicotine that an average pack-a-day smokers inhale in a week would instantly kill them if ingested in a single hour.
- Six-year-olds laugh on average of 300 times a day.
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Here’s a favorite tongue twister that is considered the most difficult in the English language due to the complex brain and motor coordination it requires,
“Sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick.”
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These facts may appear to be BS but they are not. They were researched and compiled by Shane Carley who is also obsessed with weird but true facts.
- The first leader of an independent Chile was Irish.
- The Hundred Years War actually lasted 116 years.
- The Austrian army once mistakenly attacked itself. The Battle of Karansebes resulted in losses of up to 10,000 soldiers when one Austrian regiment mistook another for the enemy.
- Surprisingly, the U.S. state closest to Africa is not Florida – it’s Maine.
- President Richard Nixon had a speech prepared just in case Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin died on the moon.
- The people of Loss Angeles were so accustomed to light pollution that when an earthquake caused a blackout in 1994, many citizens called observatories to ask about the weird lights in the sky. They were the stars.
- Early astronaut toilets were so bad that feces sometimes floated through the space capsule.
- Believe it or not as far as official records are concerned, no one has ever had sex in space.
- Marijuana and the hops in your beer come from the same plant family.
- You can generally tell the color of a chickens eggs by the color of its ears.
- As recently as 2004, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration permitted the production and marketing of maggots for limited use as a “medical device”.
- The Declaration of Independence was written on animal skin.
- Taking into consideration the upcoming holiday season. Christmas was originally banned in the American colonies.
- Jackie Mitchell, the first (and only) female player in Major League Baseball, once struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in consecutive at bats.
- Hall of Fame MLB pitcher Hoyt Wilhelm hit a home run in his first MLB at-bat. He never hit another home run over the remainder of his 21 year career.
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TRUTH IS STRANGER THAN FICTION
- The can opener wasn’t invented until nearly 50 years after the can itself.
- If there are twenty-three people in a room, there is a 50% chance that two of them will share a birthday. This is what statisticians call “The Birthday Paradox”.
- Human beings landed on the moon before inventing wheeled suitcases.
- A majority of Canadians live south of Seattle.
- Astroglide Lube was originally supposed to be a space shuttle coolant.
- The Cornish word for “breath” is “anal.”
- The letters in “eleven plus two” can be rearranged to spell “twelve plus one.”
- Some people are afraid of gravity. (Barophobia).
- “Phobophobia” is a real thing. It’s sufferers are afraid of fear.
- The vibrator was originally invented as a medical device. Orgasms were believed to be able to cure many medical ailments.
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Cornflakes were originally developed to suppress the urge to masturbate. The Kellogg brothers were deeply religious and believed that the food would help their brethren suppress the urge to pleasure themselves.
GUESS AGAIN KELLOGG BROTHERS
- Americans on average eat eighteen acres of pizza every day.
- Cut an onion in half, rub it on the sole of your foot, and an hour later you will taste onion in your mouth.
- The average person sleeps for about 220,000 hours (or just over 25 years) in a lifetime.
- There are more than 1000 chemicals in a cup of coffee; of those, only 26 have been tested, and half of them cause cancer in rats.
- Nearly all polar bears are left-handed.
- There is one chance in 2.2 million of dying in an airplane crash.
- Fran Liebowitz once stated, “Sleep is death without the responsibility.”
- The first European country to have a McDonald’s was Munich,Germany in 1971.
- The only film to win an Oscar in every category for which it was nominated was The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King in 2003.
- Sammy Davis Jr. and Jim Henson (the man behind the Muppets) both died on May 16, 1990.
- Glenn Campbell and Perry Como were both the seventh sons of seventh sons.
- Leo Tolstoy’s book War and Peace, was originally named All’s Well That Ends Well.
- William Howard Taft was the heaviest president (340 lbs.) and once had the misfortune of getting stuck in the White House bathtub.
- Charles Bronson was one of 15 siblings.
- Joe Pesci was once the lead vocalist with the band, Joey Dee & the Starlighters.
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