The Mountain Eagle
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Strange BUT TRUE



 

 

• At the height of their fashion craze in the 1580s and ‘90s, neck ruffs could include up to 6 yards of starched-stiff material with up to 600 pleats, supported by a wire, wooden frame or board.

• In 2017, while on a plane, a woman used her sleeping husband’s thumb to unlock his phone, thereby discovering he was cheating on her. She reportedly reacted with “such a ruckus” that the flight was forced to make an unscheduled landing in India.

• Starfish don’t have blood. They circulate nutrients by using seawater in their vascular system.

• The first baseball caps were made from straw and worn by the New York Knickerbockers in 1849.

• After the Titanic sank in 1912, ships sent to recover the dead ran out of embalming supplies. It was decided to preserve only the bodies of first-class passengers, due to the need to visually identify wealthy men in order to resolve disputes over their estates.

• Between 1848 and 1850, the Gold Rush caused the population of San Francisco to grow from 900 to 35,000 people.

• A mother black laceweaver spider will drum on her web to call her babies to come and eat her alive.

• In medieval times, fruit and vegetables were cooked because they were thought to cause disease, with a book from 1500 even warning consumers to “Beware of green salads and raw fruits, for they will make your master sick.”

• Credito Emiliano, a bank in Italy, accepts Parmigiano Reggiano cheese as collateral for small business loans, holding the cheese as insurance and aging it in climate-controlled vaults for the loan’s duration.

• A man literally died laughing while watching the movie “A Fish Called Wanda.”

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Thought for the Day: “Not all paths offer a vista. But every path offers a lesson.” — Toni Sorenson

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