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PURE ECLECTIC BRAIN FUEL
BRAIN FUEL
QUOTABLE
"If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun." - Katherine Hepburn
PRICES FROM THE PAST
Average Cost of New Car 1960... $2,600
WORDS
"Commensalism": An association between two organisms in which one benefits from the relationship.
US Economics
U.S. household debt hit a new record last quarter—$12.8 trillion.
US ECONOMICS
Americans owe more than $1 trillion in credit card debt. A fighter jet at Mach 1, reeling out a roll of dollar bills behind it, would take 14 years to reach that amount.
TREES
Pink Sakura (Japanese maple) (Photo: Faye Cornish/Unsplash)
AUCTION
Toyota 2000GT - 1967-1970 (351 built) - on the block at RM Sotheby’s auction in September... bring $1 million plus.
HEALTH
The anti-vax movement has been promoted by unqualified people, such as JFK Jr, Rob Schneider, and Trump, leading to increased rates of infection & death from diseases such as measles.
RECORDS
I'M Hungry, a famous restaurant in Saudi Arabia recently broke the Guinness World Record for the largest burger restaurant with an area equivalent to 11 tennis courts!
RECORDS
World's largest pizza.
Guinness World Records.
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Guinness World Records.
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TREES
This incredible vibrantly colored red maple is estimated to be 200 years old with a trunk diameter of nearly 3 feet at its widest.
TOMBSTONES
Lester Moore
HISTORY
1925 trip across Canada. Colorized video. (link)
THINKINGS
If we all made the first 90% of the toothpaste tube last as long as we do the last 10, we could collapse the toothpaste industry inside a month."
SHOWBIZ TRIVIA
Tom Cruise considered pursuing a career in professional wrestling before being injured.
THINKINGS
Before you become a parent, no one ever prepares you for how much you are going to learn about dinosaurs.
TRIVIA
Summer on Uranus lasts 21 years.
THEN AND NOW
Seoul, South Korea - 1900 And Now (Source: BoredPanda.com)
THEN AND NOW
New York City 1856 and 2013
VINTAGE MOTO
Suzuki SW-1, 249cc, 1992
THEN AND NOW
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates – 1970 And Now
READING ROOM
The Next Civil War by Stephen Marche.
Click on the tile to order.
Click on the tile to order.
SPORTS TRIVIA
It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year’s supply of footballs.
AUCTION
Pablo Picasso - Title: Femme écrivant (Marie-Thérèse), Medium: oil on canvas. Sold For: $44,632,804 US
TOMBSTONES
Gay Sergeant Leonard Matlovitch's nameless grave in the Congressional Cemetery. Purple Heart & Bronze Star.
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