Strange But True: Walking Fish
By Lucie Winborne
The Climbing Gourami is a fish that can climb out of water, breathe oxygen and even walk for short distances.
India has 454 living languages and 16 official ones.
During her 1982 restoration, the Statue of Liberty's head was accidentally installed 2 feet off-center.
General George S. Patton believed he was reincarnated from either a military leader from Napoleon's army or a Roman legionary, claiming to have seen combat multiple times in previous lives, and also believed that after he died he would return to again lead armies onto the battlefield.
Only deceased people can appear on American currency.
When put under a microscope, tears produced by grief, hope or onions were unique in form from each other.
Viking names included such gems as "desirous of beer," "able to fill a bay with fish by magic," "lust-hostage" and "the man who mixes his drinks."
North Korea accidentally hit one of its own cities during a 2017 failed missile test.
In 1916, a proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution would have put all acts of war to a national vote. Anyone voting "yes" would have to register as a volunteer for army service.
Dynamite was originally going to be called "Nobel's Safety Powder."
Singer James Brown was such a strict bandleader that he had signals arranged with his manager to let him know if a musician made a mistake during concerts. After a performance, band members' errors were deducted from their paychecks.
Ostriches are the only birds with a bladder.
In 1872, sitting president Ulysses S. Grant was pulled over and fined $20 for exceeding the Washington speed limit ... on a horse.
Aristotle believed that plants had souls.
Thought for the Day: "Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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