Did You Know? – March 2010

In Turkey, in the 16th and 17th centuries, anyone caught drinking coffee was put to death.

Poison oak and poison ivy are both members of the cashew family.

The cheeseburger was created at Denver’s Humpty Dumpty Barrel Drive-In by Louis Ballast in 1935.

Paul Horning is the only football player to win a Heisman trophy while playing for a losing team.

Nullarbor Links Golf Course runs through both western and southern Australia with a distance of 850 miles between the first hole and the last.

On May 3, 1999, a single storm system caused $i.5 billion in damage when it spawned 74 tornadoes across the states of Kansas and Oklahoma, damaging or destroying more than 8,000 homes.

Some corals begin to glow after suffering injury.

In Vermont, it is illegal for women to wear false teeth without the written permission of their husbands.

Helen Richey became the first female airline pilot in the U.S. and was one of the first female flight instructors.

The Bagheera Kipling spider of Central America is the world’s only known vegetarian spider.

The greatest calamities in history were made by words said in anger.  If you can’t back it up, don’t speak in anger.
—– Teresa Gonzales

The weak can never forgive.  Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
—- Mahatma Ghandi

Just because a person’s mouth is running doesn’t mean that their mouth is in gear.
—- Skamokawa Pete

The fear of truth is almost indestructible but so is the courage to face that fear.
—- Becki Harvey

The more he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our silver spoons.
—- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Weather forecast for tonight: Dark.
—George Carlin

A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
—Shirley Mooney

Reminds me of my safari in Africa.  Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.
—W.C.  Fields