Strange But True: Bat Birth
By Lucie Winborne
When Texas was its own sovereign nation in the mid-1800s, it briefly had a diplomatic mission in Paris.
In 1939, George Bernard Dantzig, a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, arrived late for a statistics class and copied the two problems on the blackboard, assuming they were the homework, then handed them in a few days later. Several weeks afterward, he was awakened by his professor's excited knock at the door: The "homework" was actually unsolved problems in statistics that Dantzig had managed to prove.
Since avocados never ripen on trees, farmers can use the trees as a way to store and keep the fruit fresh for up to seven months.
Maine is the closest U.S. state to Africa.
It's a sweetly romantic tradition for the post offices of Romeo, Michigan, and Juliette, Georgia, to offer a special dual postmark leading up to Valentine's Day.
As comedian Bob Hope lay on his deathbed in 2003, his wife Dolores asked where he'd like to be buried. His reply? "Surprise me."
The three dots on the Domino's Pizza logo represent the chain's three original locations. Co-founder Tom Monaghan originally planned to add a new dot for every pizzeria he opened.
Female bats give birth while hanging upside down, catching the baby in their wings.
England's King Richard the Lionheart spent a mere six months of his 10-year reign in England, being there only briefly in 1189 and 1194.
At the end of 1914, when Russia was fighting in World War I, the country's army had 6,553,000 men, but just 4,652,000 rifles.
Thought for the Day: "Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present and what to plan for in the future." -- Arnold H. Glasow
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