0.5 Americans die from shark attacks each year.
0.9 Americans die from vending machine accidents each year.
15 Americans die from falling icicles each year.
450 Americans die from falling out of bed each year.
As per Ed Headrick's wishes, his ashes were incorporated into a limited number of frisbees. "When we die, we don't go to purgatory," Headrick reportedly said shortly before his passing. "We just land up on the roof and lay there."
Actually, all of these things are illegal in various parts of Ohio.
The pioneers of hot-air balloon travel were not brave men but a rooster, sheep, and a duck that were sent up in the innovative contraption invented by the Montgolfier brothers at the end of the 1700s.
That's right, the world's most recognized symbol of freedom and the American dream, was originally intended for Egypt, which ultimately rejected it for being too old fashioned. The decision came as a disappointment to Lady Liberty's creator, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, who had envisioned the Suez Canal as the ideal venue for his mammoth harbor structure.
In 2011, an art collector paid $10,000 for a "non-visible" sculpture by Franco titled "Fresh Air" and billed as "an endless tank of oxygen".
An hour's drive from the town of Come By Chance, past Spread Eagle Island, lies the idyllic fishing village of Dildo, Newfoundland, home to about 1,200 people, most of whom refer to themselves quite proudly as Dildoians.
In 1893, U.S. congressman Lucas M. Miller proposed abolishing the Army and Navy, wiping out pension laws, and even amending the U.S. Constitution to rename the United States of America something a bit more sci-fi: "The United States of Earth."
Gates devised an algorithm for pancake sorting as a solution to one of a series of unsolved problems presented in a combinatorics class by one of his professors. Gates' solution held the record as the fastest version for over thirty years; its successor is faster by only one percent.
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