The Spin Doctors’ song “Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong” was written by lead singer Chris Barron about his stepmother, whom he described as a ‘malignant narcissist’. He said “My stepmom told me I’d be a janitor… [so] I wrote a song about her. It’s been played on the radio three million times.” Source
During the French Revolution France established a state-sponsored atheistic religion called the Cult of Reason to replace Catholicism. It only lasted about a year and was later banned by Napoleon. Source
The longest walk ever taken place was by George Meegan. He walked from the bottom of South America to the top of North America. He took 41 million steps, wore out 12.5 pairs of shoes, and collected 8 world records. Source
The largest stadium in history, the Circus Maximus, built in 6BC Rome, it had a capacity of 300,000 spectators. The largest modern stadium, Rungrado 1st of May Stadium, holds a mere 150,000 spectators. Source
William Howard Taft was the last president elected that had a mustache. No president since then has had a mustache because research does show that women feel a guy with facial hair seems less attuned to their issues. Source
Eugene Debs, aka Convict No. 9653, was the only candidate to ever run for US president…from prison! Debs, imprisoned under the Espionage Act for his antiwar agitation during WWI, won nearly 1M votes in the 1920 election as a candidate for the Socialist Party. Source
The “Shell” in Royal Dutch Shell came from the company which merged with Royal Dutch who’s business was importing and selling seashells – The “Shell” Transport and Trading Company. Source
A town of Minden, Nevada still sounds a “sundown siren” at 6pm every evening, originally signifying that Native Americans were required to leave town by 6:30pm or face jail or fine. Source
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