This is something that the poor folks in North Dakota are starting to learn - they’ve had 3 (or more) “100-year floods” in the past 15 years. They’re getting to be yearly now, almost.
You may want to check this number…
And ask any hunter - wild turkeys are pretty smart, and hard to hunt successfully. Or so my friend tells me.
Eating carrots doesn’t improve your eyesight. The story behind this myth is pretty cool.
That’s exactly why it’s my favorite, Americans go batshit insane when you bring up international baseball. 
It was even funnier before Bonds, when it was sacrilege to even hint that Aaron or Ruth weren’t the all-time leaders.
But “Saduharu Oh” is also mistaken, in that the all-time record is 1164 HRs, held by Johnny Aleo, who lived across the street from me in Brooklyn in the 1950s.
Ever see a rabbit wearing glasses? HA!
Actually, that’s a pretty cool story.
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Charles Richard Drew, the founder of the blood banking system, was killed in a car accident. He was not refused treatment in an all white hospital. He arrived DOA.
MASH had an episode that repeated this urban legend, and has probably helped keep the rumor alive for new generations to fall for.
NICE!!!
Corvairs were no less stable than any other contemporary cars.
And Nader’s book isn’t what killed the Corvair - that would be the Mustang. In fact, Chevy continued Corvair production longer than they had intended to in response to Nader’s book.
I had one. Small engine, very light car. So it had a lot of zip, possibly more zip than a car that size should have. (And hundreds of things wrong with it. When I say “more zip” I of course only refer to the times it was actually running.) It handled really well in optimum conditions, but was quite unstable on anything even slightly slick, for instance asphalt highway right after beginning of rain. I think if it had been front-wheel drive, with the engine in the rear, that would have helped a lot.
I read somewhere but can’t find a source (or even the quote) that in its first two years of production the Corvair had more recalls than any other auto up to that date. My aunt had one and when it was about three months old, the steering wheel fell off.
I drive a 62 coupe. Never experienced any instability other than the wierdness you expect of disc brakes when wet.
I’ve done a bit of reading on them and never heard about the recalls. In fact, I’m not sure but I think recalls were quite unusual for any car manufacturer at the time. And I’ve never heard of any widespread problem with steering wheels falling off.
Ah, and that’s why the question is phrased to include international leagues but exclude minor leagues, little leagues, etc. and the cite is required.
I believe Sadaharu Oh is also recognized by the Guiness Book of World records, but I couldn’t get the cite online.
Ben Franklin did not want the turkey to be the national symbol of the United States. He mentioned it once, jokingly, in a letter eight years later.
Since my specialty is religion, how about “Rabbis make food kosher by blessing it”?
I have heard this one all over the place. No, there isn’t a rabbi standing in the meat-packing plant and waving his hand over the chickens. He’s just there to supervise.
If a flatworm eats another flatworm, it won’t gain all the knowledge of the eaten.
You didn’t phrase the question like that, though.
Including a final comma in a series, the one just before the “and” is not incorrect. In fact, it’s standard usage for most editors; only newspapers work from a different style manual and tend to exclude it.
Income tax is not unconstitutional. Furthermore, not filling out/stapling/mailing/etc your federal tax forms will not have any significant effect on anything. At most, if you hand-write your personal information upside down and staple all the pages together, what will happen is: your forms will be processed exactly the same way, only it will take seconds longer. If enough people do this, then the net result will be the low-paid saps who enter your information into the computer will get to work overtime, which means the IRS will pay them more, which means the IRS will use up even more of it’s budget, which means that for next year their budget may be increased. So it’s probably not the best way of sticking it to the man.
<twitch> Curious that the one form of writing which has the primary goal not of being artistic but of expressing ideas with utter clarity and succinctness recommends against it.
I mean, I fully respect your right to use the serial comma, but I choose to separate myself from such a depraved and godless lifestyle.
Extra tidbit: This is also known as the Oxford Comma or Harvard Comma.