Strange But True: Starfish don’t have blood
By Lucie Winborne
At the height of their fashion craze in the 1580s and ‘90s, neck ruffs could include up to 6 yards of starched-stiff material with up to 600 pleats, supported by a wire, wooden frame or board.
In 2017, while on a plane, a woman used her sleeping husband’s thumb to unlock his phone, thereby discovering he was cheating on her. She reportedly reacted with “such a ruckus” that the flight was forced to make an unscheduled landing in India.
Starfish don’t have blood. They circulate nutrients by using seawater in their vascular system.
The first baseball caps were made from straw and worn by the New York Knickerbockers in 1849.
After the Titanic sank in 1912, ships sent to recover the dead ran out of embalming supplies. It was decided to preserve only the bodies of first-class passengers, due to the need to visually identify wealthy men in order to resolve disputes over their estates.
Between 1848 and 1850, the Gold Rush caused the population of San Francisco to grow from 900 to 35,000 people.
A mother black lace-weaver spider will drum on her web to call her babies to come and eat her alive.
In medieval times, fruit and vegetables were cooked because they were thought to cause disease, with a book from 1500 even warning consumers to “Beware of green salads and raw fruits, for they will make your master sick.”
Credito Emiliano, a bank in Italy, accepts Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese as collateral for small business loans, holding the cheese as insurance and aging it in climate-controlled vaults for the loan’s duration.
A man literally died laughing while watching the movie “A Fish Called Wanda.”