Fish are never hooked in the Ornans, France, section of the River Loue. They swim into the homes of the fishermen.
I Bet Ya Didn't Know
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Tallest U.S. president? Abe Lincoln at 6 ft. 4 in. (1.93 m.)
Russia was the first country to abolish capital punishment in 1826 but they later reinstated it.
Ray Kroc, founder of McDonald's was worth between $250 million and $500 million. If you rang his doorbell, you'd hear the chimes play, "You Deserve a Break Today."
The highest tidal wave ever recorded occurred in 1737. It was 210 feet high.
The first person to ever survive the fall over Niagara Falls was in 1901 when Annie Edson Taylor, a 43 year-old widowed school teacher from Bay City, Michigan survived the fall in a 260 pound oak barrel.
The longest street in the world is Yonge Street, which starts in Toronto, on the north shore of Lake Ontario, and winds its way north then west to end at the Ontario-Manitoba-Minnesota border.
Diamond Jim Brady, the colorful American financier, believed he was about to die in 1912, so he burned $20,000 worth of promissory notes owed him by his friends - and he recovered his health!
Charles Lindbergh's flight across the Atlantic took 33¹/² hours.
Charles Lindbergh helped start the space program. He helped obtain financial support for the rocket research of Robert Goddard, whose experiments led to the development of space travel.
The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
Maine is the only state with just one syllable in its name.
Pets have a prime place in their owners' lives..and beyond. 74% of pet owners surveyed say they would go into debt for their pets' well-being. 29% say they rely on their pets most for companionship and affection. 17% have provisions for pets in their wills.
Julie Andrews had a fully developed four-octave vocal range by age 8.
A carpet found in an ancient burial mound in Pazyryk, Siberia, was in perfect condition because it had been coated with ice for 2,400 years.
Johann Heinrich Tischbein (1682-1764), a cabinet-maker of Haina, Germany, was the father of 7 famous painters, the grandfather of 16 famed artists, and great-grandfather of 34 artists.
Michelle Pfeiffer, then a supermarket cashier, got her first big break by winning the Miss Orange County pageant.
Imhotep, who was the chief justice of Egypt and court physician to Pharaoh Zoser, invented the first calendar in 2,780 B.C.
Charles the Bold (1433-1477) wore in battle an iron hat studded with pearls, rubies, and emeralds, valued at about half a million dollars.
The hammerhead fly (diopsis) is nature's only replica of the hammerhead shark.
Ricord's frog, of the Bahamas, is the only frog that hatches its young as frogs, skipping the tadpole stage.
The first person born in the USA to be recognized by the Vatican as a saint was Elizabeth Ann Seton (1774-1821), canonized in 1975.
Correggio (1494-1534), one of the greatest painters of all time, was paid for one of his canvases with a 50-pound bag of coppers ...and died as the result of the exertion of carrying it home.
The fortress of Acre in the Holy Land, after resisting attacks by the Crusaders for 2 years, finally was captured in 1191 by King Richard the Lionhearted, who ordered 100 beehives tossed over its walls. The Saracen defenders surrendered at once.
Your skull is made up of 29 different bones.
A portable rotary drill unit set up for demonstration purposes struck oil at the International Petroleum Exposition in Tulsa, OK.
Red carpet fashions really stood out when the Academy Awards were broadcast in color for the first time in 1966.
The bells in the belfry of the church of St. Nicholas in St. Nicholas, Switzerland, set off a snow avalanche that swept away the church, yet the bell tower itself was unharmed. The bell ringer was not even aware the church had disappeared until he descended from the adjacent tower (1749).
Luigi II, duke of Savoia (1402-1465) slept 22 hours a day for the last 20 years of his life, rising only briefly for his 3 meals a day.
The Shah Diamond, weighing 88.70 carats, sent by the Shah of Persia to Czar Nicholas I of Russia after the Russian ambassador had been murdered by a Persian mob, actually prevented a war (1829).
Americans spend more on dog food every year than they spend on baby food.
Americans hold more parties in their homes on Super Bowl Sunday than any other day of the year.
The National Football League first made the wearing of helmets mandatory in 1943.
Alexander Graham Bell, an authority on the needs of the deaf, advised Helen Keller's father to seek help for her from Boston's Perkins Institution for the Blind.
Isaac Newton dropped out of school because his mother wanted him to be a successful farmer.
The Organization of American States is 54 years old. It is a sort of hemispheric United Nations and now includes every country of North and South America and the Caribbean.
The combined population of the Americas (North, Central, and South) is estimated at 828 million or about 14% of the world population.
Spring fever: 1 in 8 baseball fans admit to having taken a sick day to attend a pro ball game.
Capt. C. H. Brown released a bottle on June 12, 1914 as part of a survey of currents. It was found August 21, 1996 in the nets of a fishing trawler 5 miles from it's point of origin!
The largest mushroom farm in the world is located near West Winfield, PA., in an old limestone mine. The farm produces about 14 million pounds of mushrooms each year.