In 1897, the Indiana General Assembly tried legally set the value of Pi to 3.2.
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Mr. Rogers told viewers when he was feeding his fish because a young blind girl wrote in asking him to announce it so she would know the fish were alright.
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The FBI was asked to investigate the lyrics of the Kingsmen song “Louie, Louie” to see if violated any obscenity laws. They spent three months in 1964 only to determine the lyrics were indecipherable.
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German chocolate cake doesn’t come from Germany. It was named for a person, Sam German, who created a type of baking chocolate for Baker’s in 1852.
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Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein when she 18, during a ghost story competition while staying in Switzerland with writers Percy Shelley (her lover) and Lord Byron.
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Cartoonist Mort Walker, creator of Beetle Bailey, came up with names for the things we often see in comics and cartoons: “briffit” is the dust cloud a character makes when he runs away quickly; “plewds” are the beads of sweat when a character is under duress; and “grawlix” are symbols such as “#@*%” that stand in for curse words.
