Uninspiring land speed records:
Interestingly, these were all set with electric vehicles.
“I never knew an enemy to puns who was not an ill-natured man.” — Charles Lamb
In January 1892, Rhode Island farmer George Brown buried his daughter Mercy. She had died of consumption, as had her mother and sister.
Two months later George’s son, Edwin, also became sick, and the farmer decided that one of his dead family members was returning from the grave as a vampire to cause his son’s illness.
So he dug up his daughter’s body, cut out her heart, mixed it into a potion, and told his son to drink it.
Edwin died two months later.
If Earth were the size of a tennis ball, the sun would be 2,460 feet away.
And the nearest star would still be 125,000 miles away.
The June 1851 issue of Scientific American reported that a zinc and silver vase had been blasted from solid rock 15 feet below the surface of Meeting House Hill in Dorchester, Mass. The bell-shaped vessel had floral designs inlaid with silver.
Experts at the time estimated it to be about 100,000 years old, which would obviously throw everything we know out the window.
Unfortunately, it disappeared after circulating through several museums. What’s the real story? Who knows?
latrocinate
v. to engage in highway robbery
Think of any number and write it out in words. Count the number of letters and write that out in words. And so on:
If your spelling is good, you’ll always arrive at FOUR.
The Uffington White Horse was cut out of the turf on a hill in southern England, exposing the chalk beneath.
Some say it’s really a dragon — the figure is 3,000 years old.
Irish sayings:
And “He who gets a name for early rising can stay in bed until midday.”
