Chuck Ross received so many rejections that, in 1977, he retyped a National Book Award winning book (word for word), and submitted the excerpt to 14 major publishers and 13 agents, only to get rejected again. He submitted the entire book under a different name to Random House, who had published the original book some time before. the Random House agents rejected it (even though it was a book that THEY published!)
Ah, the halcyon days before digital indexes and google searches. Makes me wonder how we ever made it out of the caves.
At the age of 16, Ben Franklin had his 3rd article published in the local paper, written from the POV of his fictional female character named "Silence Dogood" about the importance of serving ones country. (Im still laughing at "Silence Dogood".... Lol.... Men )
La Roch Gabon is an island southeast of Madagascar, and it's the geographic opposite of Billings, Montana. This city is home to Chuck Tingle, an indie author who writes erotica about dinosaurs, mythical creatures like unicorns and Bigfoot, etc. There. That's a fact you know.
Violation of Energy Conservation is possible both on the cosmological scale and the quantum scale Is Energy Conserved When Photons Redshift In Our Expanding Universe? (forbes.com) Is the law of conservation of energy violated for a short or long period of time and can it be experimentally observed? (physlink.com) Violations of energy conservation in the early universe may explain dark energy (phys.org) Is the Universe Leaking Energy? - Scientific American
Marital expectations plced on women in late 1700s America: "Not very talkative, nor one that is dumb; no scold, but of a spirit to resent an affront; of a charitable disposition; not overfond of dress, though always decent and clean ;that will entertain her husband's friends with affability and cheerfulness, and prefer his company to public diversions and gadding about" Matrimony ad circa 1784
Life lessons learned while living through the winter with a broken furnace... 1, You don’t have to turn the hot water up so much to get that nice-hot-shower experience. 2, That nice-hot-shower euphoria is quickly dashed when you step out of the shower. 3, The cost of a new furnace isn’t as bad as I feared. It’s bad enough, but could have been worse- much worse. 4, Thank God for 0% financing for 60 months promotions.
Northrop Grumman designed the famous B-2 stealth bomber from the diving flight of a Peregrine Falcon. I'm sure this isn't news to many, but I found it fascinating. Nature influencing incredible design yet again.
I have a question rather than a fact. Forgive me if there's a better place to ask it. While researching the history of butchers/butchery I came across the following supposed fact: Cleaver, heavy, axlike knife used for about the past one million years to cut through animal bone and meat I bolded the part that struck me as wrong. That can't be true, right? Here's the link, it's the first sentence. https://www.britannica.com/technology/cleaver
There may well have been stone meat cleavers. In fact I'll bet they're just a few days younger than the flint knife. "The earliest stone toolmaking developed by at least 2.6 million years ago." —Source Just ask @Cave Troll
My wife says they’re rich as hell, but she loves ‘em. If you can’t find them at your grocery store, Amazon has a whole case for about $60. (12 packages)
The world's first car accident occurred in Ohio City, Ohio in 1891 when a vehicle driven by one James William Lambert hit a tree root on an unpaved street and veered out of control into a hitching post. The injuries were minor.
Helen Keller flew a plane. :O Like someone sat her down in the cockpit, put her hands on the steering and let her steer.