Celebrate This
Today is Zipper Day: Swedish-American scientist and inventor Gideon Sundback received a patent for his "hook-less fastener" on this date in 1913.
Still on the Books
In Oklahoma, it is illegal to have a sleeping donkey in your bathtub after 7 p.m.
Quotable
by Karl Augustus Menninger, American psychiatrist (1893-1990)
"Fears are educated into us, and can, if we wish, be educated out."
Lap of Luxury
Three dogs survived the sinking of the Titanic ------- two Pomeranians and one Pekingese; they were from first-class cabins.
Lore Has It
In China, where long noodles symbolize a long life, cutting them up, instead of slurping them without breaking them, means you're cutting life short.
No Small Threat
Despite its tiny golf-ball size, the blue-ringed octopus is the deadliest of all cephalopods, carrying enough poison to kill 26 adults within minutes.
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