10% of the world's population is left handed. BUT...20% of U.S. Presidents have been southpaws. What's the deal? Exactly 20% of my family is left handed. August 13 is international left hander's day.
Did you ever wonder how "red light districts" got that name? Blame it on the railroad in the 19th century. It seems all railroad men, when the tracks were being laid across our huge country, carried a lantern - to signal with or to help them see in the dark. When they visited houses of prostitution in the old west, the would hang their red lanterns outside while they were inside. Thus the name...
You know that the Korean War was fought between South Korea and North Korea with the U.S. helping the South and China the North.. Well, the best statistics show that we lost just over 36,000 troops and the Chinese lost over 200,000.
"Why can't we all just get along?" The words of Rodney King some twenty-nine years ago. He was a man mercilessly treated by Los Angeles police officers after a traffic infraction.
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