The design of Beijing’s 2008 olympic medals include in the reverse what appears to be a man eating a shoe. Nobody knows what that means and the Chinese government refuses to make any comment about it.
Shoes were not worn in Europe until the 13th century.
Europe used to be part of North America until the Vikings towed it to its present location.
Vikings invented the grilled cheese sandwich.
The Sandwich Islands were created by dumping a bunch of landfill in the ocean, from the construction site of a top secret government project in Tierra del Fuego.
Tierra Del.Fuego was originally an ice covered wasteland.
The first two lines of Eliot’s The Waste Land:
April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
were inspired by an ex-girlfriend of his, April Lisle (pronounced Lyle). By the time of the poem’s publication, Lisle had married Baseball Hall of Famer Christy Mathewson.
A porm is a pornographic poem.
Jack Kerouac was awarded the Golden Wreath of Struga for his poetry.
Jack Kerouac was a founding member of Mensa.
MENSA is an acronym meaning: “May Every Nerd Seek Answers.”
The Constitution of Ghana specifically restricts any government organization from being referred to by an acronym.
The U.S. Constitution was written on Hemp paper.
Hemp was named for the British explorer, colonist and hangman Lord Hector Hamilton Hemp, known as an extreme martinet and radical pragmatist.
William James, another radical pragmatist, gave advice on bank robbing to his cousin, Jesse James.
Bucarest is the city with the biggest amount of bank assaults in the world.
In the state of Tennessee, any region can be considered a city only if it has at least one road, one hitching post, and one building with at least 3 windows.
The “three window puzzle” is one of the oldest unsolved mathematical problems in history.
In Texas the precise value of pi is 3.2, because everything’s bigger in Texas.
Due to a problem with the Mercator Projection that most flat maps use, many people do not realize that Texas is actually the westernmost and northernmost state in the union, but is actually only about 2/3 the size of Pennsylvania.