Head Scratchers & Good Stuff to Know

“Hello” wasn’t a common greeting until the invention of the telephone. Thomas Edison convinced the printers of the first phone books to make it the sanctioned greeting. Alexander Graham Bell preferred the greeting to be "ahoy" when answering the phone. In the end, hello won out as the prevalent... Sign in to see full entry.

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A Romania grandmother unknowingly used a seven-pound Rumanit amber nugget worth more than $1 million as a doorstop for decades before she died in 1991. Years later, her relatives discovered the stone's true value. I have used a river rock we named Rocky as a doorstop I painted big eyes on it for fun... Sign in to see full entry.

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The incredible story of "Beauty and the Beast" was based on a real person, Petrus Gonsalvus, a young boy from the 16th century. Petrus suffered a severe case of hypertrichosis, a condition that causes a person to grow hair all over their body, often referred to as "werewolf syndrome." Gonsalvus was... Sign in to see full entry.

I have only lived in one home where the heat source came from a "hotter than the hinges of Hell" radiator whose heat' source is fueled by steam or boiling water, depending on the age of the radiator. Ours wasn't as pretty as the one pictured, but they all use the same method of heating a room that... Sign in to see full entry.

Last night, several thousand Pennsylvania residents were treated to the sighting of the 400-foot Space X Rocket that was launched from Florida. SpaceX launches 20 Starlink internet satellites from Florida | Space Sign in to see full entry.