Some fun and not fun facts (1 Viewer)

Ahsoka · 6 August 2023

Andrew Jackson’s parrot had to be removed from Andrew Jackson’s funeral because it had a major potty mouth
Frank Sinatra always carried dimes because when his son was kidnapped, the kidnapper wanted all communication done by pay phone, and Frank Sinatra was worried he wouldn’t have enough. Even in death he was buried with dimes in his pockets. The kidnapper also thought he was doing the family favors and bringing them closer or whatever, and also countered Frank Sinatras 1 million dollars offer with about quarter of that. Can we say unhinged?
Bonnie and Clyde both had a limp at some point. Clyde got his from cutting off 2 of his toes in prison to try to escape the terrible labor and conditions. It turned out it was unnecessary because he was released a few day later due to his mothers work pleading with the system that she needed him home. So the toes were unnecessary after all. Bonnie got hers due to a car wreck and sometimes needed to be carried.
Most Phoenician writing is gone due to their use of papyrus, which disintegrated. There do remain a few fragments intact to this day though.
The stethoscope was invented because the creator was embarrassed to put his ear to a woman’s chest.
The first text message read “Merry Christmas”.
The documentary “White Wilderness” claimed lemmings jump off cliffs into water, attempting to cross the ocean, and then drown. But it seems that the scene was filmed in a different area then stated and that the lemmings were transported there and then pushed off the cliff to film the scene.
People say Christopher Columbus had trouble finding backing for his trip because everyone thought the world was flat. But at the time the navigational practices assumed the globe was a sphere already. The reason he had trouble finding backing was because everyone know he had no chance of reaching Asia.
The National Traffic Highway Safety Administration said the Chevy Volts lithium battery would catch fire in a 20 mph collision. More accurately, if you hit the car at the right spot and flipped it over at the right speed it would catch fire 3 weeks later.
During the storming of the Bastille, there was no mass release of political prisoners. There were only seven prisoners, some counterfeiters, some insane people, and a “deviant” aristocrat.
After Pearl Harbor, banging noises were heard from the USS West Virginia from survivors. However, it took them 6 months to figure out how to raise the ship. The people trapped inside were long dead, as they suffocated about 16 days in.