re: Interesting facts for people who like interesting facts.

Monkees band member Michael Nesmith's mother (Bette Nesmith Graham) invented Liquid Paper.

Mao Tse-Tung suffered periods of severe constipation during his lifetime, and used to sit in fields where crops were fertilized with human dung because he thought the smell tended to loosen his bowels.

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Savannah, Georgia

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The Irish were among Savannah’s first settlers, which is why the city hosts one of the largest St. Patrick’s Day parades in the country.

The kid in this statue was not a foot soldier, and the police officer did not sic the dog on the child as the sculptor implies. The boys name is Walter Gadsden, he skipped school that day to walk downtown and observe the protests taking place. He accidentally walked down a street past a police barricade and a dog jumped at him. The police officer actually pulled the dog back and placed his hand between the dog and Walter to protect him.



A journalist snapped this photo, which was published in the papers and of course garnered mass attention and outrage across the country.




The name of the statue is "The Foot Soldier of Birmingham". Writer Malcolm Gladwell has a podcast about it if you want to listen. LINK

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My penis is twice the size of the average penis.

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Wow, OweO making a decent thread about himself. I would never have believed it.

On topic:

No one set out to invent sticky notes. Instead, in 1968, Dr. Spencer Silver, a chemist at 3M Company, invented a unique, low-tack adhesive that would stick to things but also could be repositioned multiple times. He was trying to invent a super-strong adhesive, but he came up with a super-weak one instead.

At the time, it was a solution without a problem! Dr. Silver had a new invention, but he didn't know what to do with it. For the next five years, he promoted his new invention within 3M, but no one could think of a way to use it.

In 1974, Art Fry, a colleague of Dr. Silver's at 3M, was singing in his church choir. He became frustrated when the bookmarks he used to mark his place in his hymnal kept falling out.

He remembered Dr. Silver's adhesive and tried some on his bookmarks. It worked wonderfully! The bookmarks stayed in place, but he could move and reattach them easily without harming any of the pages. The rest, as they say, is history…

I thought dogs laid eggs.

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Goats have rectangular pupils.

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so do Horses.

Did you know:

Wade Boggs drank 64 beers on a flight from New York to LA.

Napoleon Bonaparte was actually from Corsica and spoke better Italian than French. He was also not short. He was 5'7", about the average height of a Frenchman then.