Category: Omnibit

If a Nigerian child continues to wet the bed past the age of 8, the parents send for a man with a hyena on a leash and the child is made to ride the hyena through the public square. The bedwetting then ends. Reportedly.

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Rodney Dangerfield Jack Benny — Who was Rodney Dangerfield? He was  a cowboy character used by Jack Benny on his radio show in the early 1940s. There was a different one? Well, Rodney Dangerfield was the stage name of comedian Jack Roy who was born  Jacob Rodney Cohen but that one got no respect.

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A hippopotamus is more closely related to a whale than an elephant.

But they are lousy swimmers.

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Count Feodor Ivanovich Tolstoy — cousin to the great author Leo — got himself a berth on the sloop Nadezhda on the First Russian Circumnavigation in 1803.

The event’s purpose was to bring prestige to the nation and advance scientific knowledge.

Tolstoy was royalty so he didn’t have an assigned role. He spent his time drinking, picking fights and playing jokes. He got the ship’s priest drunk, for instance, then glued his beard to the deck.

The final straw, though, was likely the orangutan.

During an island stop, he acquired a pet orangutan. He snuck it into the captain’s cabin, took out the logbook, put a blank sheet of paper on top and showed the ape how to cover it with ink. He left while ape went on drawing. When the captain returned, the records were ruined along with much scientific data.

Enough became enough and Tolstoy and the orangutan was marooned by the crew on the Kamchatka peninsula. From there Tolstoy made it to Aleutian islands and from there to Siberia and home.

He became known as The American due to his stay in Alaska. Nobody knows what happened to the orangutan.

Count Feodor Ivanovich Tolstoy

Lotte Lenya named in the American version of “Mack the Knife” was the wife of composer Kurt Weill who co-wrote The Threepenny Opera from which the song comes. Lotte is also known for playing the evil Rosa Klebb in the James Bond movie From Russia With Love. Suky Tawdry, Lucy Brown et al were characters in the play.

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A giraffe’s tongue is 20 inches long. Yes Anthony, that means they can clean their own ear with it.

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Honiara is a city with a population of 64,000 and is the capital of the nation known as the Solomon Islands. It is built around an old Japanese airstrip on the island of Guadalcanal they called Runga Point although it was spelled with an L — really.

The United States took it from them in 1942 and renamed it Henderson Field. In February of the next year they secured the island and turned it into a major base with a sophisticated infrastructure.

And that infrastructure would become the national capital Honiara. The city’s international airport is actually at the site of Henderson Field.

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The hottest pepper in the world is the Carolina Reaper with a Scoville scale measurement of 2.2 million. It is about 20 times as a hot as an habanero, which was the world’s hottest back in 1999.

It is 2,000 times hotter than a jalapeno.

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So where did Abraham Lincoln keep his bankbook? In his stovepipe hat. Really.

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