Strange But True: Time Zones
By Lucie Winborne
Mummies can still have fingerprints.
President Herbert Hoover spoke Mandarin Chinese with his wife, Lou Henry Hoover, to avoid eavesdroppers during their stint in the White House.
The Appalachian Mountains are older than the Atlantic Ocean.
Contrary to what some folks might claim, a study found that cats display the main attachment styles as babies and dogs.
McDonald's buys about 2 billion eggs every year just for their U.S. restaurants.
The concept of contact lenses dates back to LEOnardo da Vinci, who described a vision correction method involving a water-filled glass hemisphere over the eye. Centuries later, British polymath Thomas Young created a lens prototype made of glass and filled with water based on another theoretical idea, by philosopher/scientist Rene Descartes.
Israel used piracy laws as the basis for prosecuting Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann.
Lucille Fay LeSueur got her stage name, Joan Crawford, from a contest run in the fan magazine Movie Weekly.
Bat species make up 21% of all mammals.
Our physical and emotional states can change how we see color. Fatigue may dull sensitivity to contrast, some medications can alter the way the retina processes light, and positive thinkers often view hues as slightly more vivid.
The inventor of the stop sign never learned how to drive.
Before time zones were established in 1883, North America had more than 144 local times.
Irene Triplett, the last American to collect a Civil War pension, died in 2020.
Calvin Coolidge's vice president, Charles G. Dawes, a self-trained pianist and flautist, is the only American veep to have penned a No. 1 hit pop song, a short instrumental piece titled "Melody in A Major."
Thought for the Day: "Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears." -- Rudyard Kipling
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