Ringo(of the Beatles)first had the chance to play the drums when he was taught music in the Sanatorium when he had TB.Galton and Simpson (Hancock and Steptoe)met in a Sanatorium when they both had TB.It’s always best to be optimistic I think because you never know…
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That’s alarming
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The upside-down ketchup bottle earned its inventor Paul Brown $13 million.
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One can only imagine what other phenomena the magnetrons might have unleashed in his trousers.
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Robert Chesebrough, the inventor of petroleum jelly ate a spoonful every day, claiming it had tremendous health benefits. He lived to be 96.
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In 1904, tea bags were invented accidentally. The inventor, Thomas Sullivan, decided that it was cheaper to send small samples to potential customers in silk bags instead of boxes. The recipients believed they were meant to be dunked and soon Sullivan was flooded with orders for his “tea bags.”
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The inventor of the Game Boy, Gunpei Yokoi, was originally Nintendo’s janitor. The President of the company happened to walk by and was impressed by a toy he created out of boredom, leading to an illustrious career.
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There is a species of jellyfish that is immortal
Think that immortality is just a fantasy? Well, it is for humans. But scientists have discovered that the Turritopsis dohrnii jellyfish can revert back to its juvenile polyp stage after maturing, continuing in an endless cycle making it the only known officially immortal creature.
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Eventually, a day on Earth will be 25 hours long
The Earth’s speed as it orbits the sun is not a fixed rate. No matter how constant it may seem to us mortals, it’s actually slowing over time. The length of a day will become 25 hours…in about 175 million years. So don’t toss your clocks just yet.
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If you’re shot by a sniper, you’ll be dead before you hear the gun.
The speed of sound is 343 meters/second. But a bullet fired from a rifle travels at 762 meters/second. This means that if you’re ever targeted by an expert marksman you’ll be dead before you hear the gunshot. Which is comforting? I guess?
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Very reassuring, I shall sleep well tonight 
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And they don’t have brains 
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When someone does not pay you on Ebay, you have to cancel the order and this is part of the message you get from them
Any Feedback left on this order will be removed.
So, they go to great lengths to protect toss pot timewasters from bad feedback, what a state of affairs!!
Don Henley has said The Eagles employ 60 people just to scour the internet for Eagles content to remove.Very believable,I think they’ve even sued their own band members when they went solo and tried singing the band songs.
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Never heard of them!!!
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They must be doing a good job then.
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I wouldn’t know about that.
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Joe Walsh of The Eagles is a keen long-time radio ham.
He has also been a member of several other groups including Ringo Star and his All-Starr Band.
Ringo Star’s real name is Richard Starky.
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A policeman issues a ticket to a woman for wearing a bikini, 1957
The word bikini was coined in 1946 by French engineer Louis Réard who invented it. Réard later described it as a “two-piece bathing suit which reveals everything about a girl except for her mother’s maiden name”.
The bikini was banned in Spain, Italy, Portugal, and Australia and was banned in someplace states in the USA, or it was heavily discouraged. The Vatican declared the bikini as sinful.
The bikini became popular with models such as Marilyn Monroe. French fashion historian Olivier Saillard stated that the bikini spread due to “the power of women, and not the power of fashion”. Now, the bikini is a famous outfit to wear at the beach. A study has shown that 85% of women who wear a bikini do not touch the water.
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