[Thanks again to Readers’ Digest for the mater=
ial in this fun look at Ironing, er Irony.]
> In 2002, a tree was=
planted in a park in Los Angeles in memory of Beatles guitarist George Har=
rison. The tree later died after being infested by beetles.
> Al Capon=
e’s older brother was a federal Prohibition agent.
> The only lo=
sing basketball coach in University of Kansas history is James NaismithR=
12;the man who invented basketball in 1891
> Until 2012, the largest p=
urchaser of kale in America was Pizza Hut. They used it as garnish around t=
heir salad bars.
> Q-tips, which are usually bought primarily to clean=
inside your ears, are sold in boxes that expressly warn: “Do not ins=
ert inside the ear canal.”
&n=
bsp;
> Charlie Chaplin once entered a R=
20;Charlie Chaplin walk” contest—and came in 20th.
> ̶=
0;Father of Traffic Safety” William Eno invented the stop sign, cross=
walk, traffic circle, one-way street and taxi stand—but never learned=
how to drive. A prime irony example, as he never got the chance to benefit=
from his own invention.
> The site where Julius Caesar was murdered i=
n 44 BC is now a no-kill animal shelter for homeless cats.
> The first=
man to survive going over Niagara Falls in a barrel died after slippi=
ng on an orange peel.
> After 35 years working at Crayola, their retir=
ing CEO, Emerson Moser, revealed that he was colorblind.
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~~~
Dr Bob Griffin
[email protected] www.grif.net
“I=
t is not enough to stare up the steps;
we must step up the stairs=
“
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