Of Interest
There were two interesting stats in today’s NY Post: NYC has eliminated 6000+ parking spaces so far in 2019. This is an obvious ploy to force vehicles to park illegally in order to generate ticket revenue. It’s the main reason the floating book shop doesn’t travel to Park Slope anymore… 146 EMTs have been assaulted through October of this year, an increase of 36% from 2018. They, of course, frequently deal with the mentally ill.
Here are interesting facts on a day most of the news seems redundant:
80% of all serious or fatal car crashes are caused by men. (Driven to it by women.)
Male bees have sex once, and then die because their testicles explode. (Haven’t they heard of castration anxiety?)
Pigeons can’t fart. (Who would even think of researching that?)
Pubic hair has a life expectancy of about three weeks. (Does that seem right, guys?)
The top speed of the first American car race in 1895 was seven mph. (The winner was an old man.)
Picasso carried a revolver loaded with blanks, which he would fire at whoever asked what his work “meant.” (Pablo was a tad touchy.)
Taking one step uses more than 200 muscles. (I’ll try not to think of this during tomorrow morning’s walk.)
People are more likely to agree with a statement written in Baskerville than any other font. (I googled it and found so many types of it that I was confused.)
Talking to yourself makes your brain work more efficiently. (Hope so)
In 1939 The New York Times predicted that the television would fail because the average American family would not have enough time to sit around watching it. (And it’s never been wrong since.)
A single elephant tooth can weigh up to nine lbs.
A Frosted Flake in the shape of Illinois sold on eBay for $1350.
According to the Centre for Retail Research, cheese is the most commonly shoplifted food in the world. (And who cut the cheese?)
Ocean liner stewardess Violet Jessop was on board during the three largest ship sinkings in history: the Titanic, the Britannic, and the Olympic. (She died in 1971 at 83.) And here she is:
Things weren’t very interesting today at the floating book shop. My thanks to the woman who bought three kids’ books for her two boys, and to the one who purchased a two volume set of Scarlett: The Sequel to Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind by Alexandra Ripley — in Russian. The author was granted permission by Mitchell’s estate.
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