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American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.


In ancient Egypt, people shaved their eyebrows as a sign of mourning when their cats died.


More info: They also mummified their dead cats the way they mummified people The Egyptians revered cats so much that if a human killed a feline, either intentionally or unintentionally, that human was sentenced to death.

Laws were set that also forbid the exportation of cats, though they were frequently smuggled out. Armies sometimes were set out to recapture these cats from the foreign lands.

After ex-President Andrew Jackson died, they brought his pet parrot, Poll, into his viewing party. Poll soon had to be removed because he would not stop shouting obscenities.


More Jackson facts: Andrew Johnson killed one man who insulted his wife's honor, a Mr. Charles Dickinson. It was a gun duel. Dickinson fired first, hitting Jackson a mere 2 inches from his heart. Jackson didn't flinch, he just aimed, shot, and it was over. He carried the bullet with him throughout his life.

In 1835, a mentally disturbed man named Richard Lawrence fired two different guns at Jackson from point-blank range. Both weapons failed to fire. The odds of this happening were put at 1:125,000. Jackson then chased after Lawrence and beat him with his cane.

Penguins cannot walk backwards.


More info: They are too top heavy and their feet are too small to support their weight while walking backwards. To walk backwards, feet need to lift off the ground, and penguins do not take long steps. Also, they are unable to turn so they wouldn't be able to see where they are going, and would trip and fall.

'Subbookkeeper' is the only word that has double letters four times in a row.




Apples are actually part of the rose family.


The rose family, Rosaceae, contains many varieties of fruit including apples, pears, peaches, plums, strawberries, blackberries, blackberries as well as almonds and of course, roses

 

[High Priestess]

lol, well they need to save, so what the hell, a olive is that big a deal to remove from a salad, nice one W-olf ^^

 

[W-olf]

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“Impossible colors,” or “forbidden colors,” are hues that cannot be seen by the human eye in ordinary viewing conditions. These are actually simpler to describe than one might think.
In our color wheel, we have colors like “red-orange” or “blue-green.” These colors exist because they are right next to each other on the color wheel. An “impossible color” is a color such as “green-purple,” or any two colors put together that are not next to each other on the color wheel. Though the idea of mixing green and purple makes most people think of a brown color, this is actually referring to a color that would be similar to both purple and green.
Other colors outside of our range of color perception are also included in this. Included is an image of two colors that are dissimilar. Some people who stare at the image with crossed eyes so that the pluses align may be able to see “yellow-blue.” Try it yourself!

 

[W-olf]

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In Detroit in 1937 , a baby fell from the 4th floor of a building, falling on a man who was passing below. One year later exactly the same thing happened - another baby, another 4th floor window, same man.



Street Sweeper Joseph Figlock was furbishing up an alley when a baby plopped down from a fourth-story window and struck him on the head and shoulders. Figlock and the baby were injured but not killed. One year later, as Figlock was sweeping out another alley, two-year-old David Thomas fell from a fourth-story window and landed on Figlock with the same results.


President Rutherford B. Hayes was the first president to use a phone. His phone number was simply 1.


In 1879, the first telephone was installed in the White House. At first it was hardly used, because there weren't many other phones in Washington to call. Hayes had the White House's first telephone installed in the mansion's telegraph room. The White House phone number was '1'. Additional Hayes fact: He gained the Presidency by a margin of only one