Today, November 19th is Have a Bad Day Day.
Yesterday, November 18th, was 18th birthday of the debut of Calvin and Hobbes.
In 1705, during Queen Anne's War with France, a small vessel was wrecked in the North Sea off the English coast village of West Hartlepool. The sole survivor was a pet ape that had belonged to the French crew. The townspeople captured the ape, and thinking it was a Frenchman in disguise, put the monkey on trail and hanged it as a French Spy.
Cashews have no shells. The Cashew is a seed, not a nut.
Glabella is the name for the space between your eyebrows.
Back in 1968, the MPAA forgot to trademark the "X" rating when they created the rating system. This is what allowed porn makers to lable their films as "XXX". Due to the "X" rating becoming synonymous with porn, the MPAA created the NC-17 rating in 1990, and made sure to trademark it.
If a grasshopper is hungry enough, it will eat the paint off your house.
It would take 2 1/2 minutes to fall from the top of Mt. Everest.
Cracker Jack is the world's largest purchaser of popcorn.
A bat can eat as many as 1000 insects an hour.
Both poison oak and poison ivy are members of the cashew family.
In 19th-century England, "pants' was considered an obscene word.
99% of the pumpkins sold in the US end up as Jack-O'-Lanterns.
Only female mosquitos eat blood. The males eat sap.
Genetically speaking, a guinea pig is more closely related to a cow than a rat.
Darwin, the staunch believer in "Survival of the Fittest", was a lifelong hypochondriac who suffered from stomachaches, chronic insomnia, and fatigue.
Translated title of Boogie Nights in Hong Kong: "His Powerful Device Makes Him Famous"
Constipation kills more fruit flies than any other ailment.
Never under any circumstance scrutinize the mastication orifice of a gratuitous herbivorous quadruped.
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