- Gullible.info for April 27, 2012
? Pearl Street in lower Manhattan got its name from a seventeenth century brothel that was located on the street. The owner of the establishment was Pearl S. Fluck and the brothel was called "Pearls Before Swine".
? The Beatles named their album "Revolver" because Ringo had gotten stuck in a revolving door one afternoon when they were recording the album.
? The first time Wade Boggs went 4-for-4 with a walk at the plate, he discovered he had a dime inside his left sock as he was removing it after the game. From then on he would always play with a coin in his sock.
? The Chinese word for "granola" translates to "similar to donkey food only worse."
? Evolutionists believe that by the year 6872 all humans will be hairless.
- Gullible.info for March 13, 2012
? The average American adult male will wear a sock with a hole in it six times before he discards it.
? Freelance writers spam message boards more often than members of any other job category.
? In 1979 there were 1,037 people living in residences south of Wall Street in Manhattan.
? As of December 31, 2011, the Hubble Space Telescope had detected approximately 469 trillion trillion photons
? Archeologists believe that the first tax imposed was one within a Neanderthal community on shellfish gathered in and around what is now the Dardanelles.
- Gullible.info for January 15, 2012
? Missing aviatrix Amelia Earhart died January 23, 1981 in Kalamazoo, MI at the age of 73.
? Two years of Adolf Hitler's life in the late 1920s cannot be accounted for by witnesses or historians.
? Joseph Force Crater, New York's most famous "missing man" of August 1930, never actually went missing. Crater blackmailed media outlets into running the story, purportedly to escape massive gambling debts.
? The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System does not serve the state of Utah.
? Actor Daniel Day-Lewis's whereabouts have been unknown since July 2010.
- Gullible.info for December 8, 2011
? The sale of one percent milk has declined nearly 26 percent since the beginning of the Occupy Wall Street protests.
? A 2010 survey found 3.1 percent of Americans claim to celebrate one or fewer holidays in a year. Of the holidays observed by these single-day celebrators the top reported was Kwanza, followed closely by the birthday of individual or their spouse.
? The title lyric of the Old English carol "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" was originally a sexual innuendo.
? In 2007, "Season's Greetings" replaced "Happy Holidays" as the most-used holiday banner text in American retail stores, which replaced "Merry Christmas" in 1979.
? Based on a global sample of 2009 symphony season programs, G.F. Handel's "Hallelujah Chorus" is performed eight times each December for every one time it is sung during the rest of the year.
- Gullible.info for December 1, 2011
? Most of the world's French fries are neither French nor fried.
? The average trip on the Metrorail transit system in Washington, D.C. spans 8.8 stops and includes 0.9 transfers.
? Pakistan is the only non-English-speaking country that observes Daylight Saving Time.
? Geneticists discovered in 2004 that humans' ability to see the color red stems from a genetic mutation that took place in a common ancestor two million years ago. Projections indicate that, in another million years, red color receptors will be a recessive gene and appear only in a minority of humans.
? NBA basketball players average a one in 11 success ratio for three-point shots.
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