Life is mostly about the pursuit of knowledge and, therefore, the collection of fun facts. All my fun facts were harvested personally … They started as a physical book purchase from Amazon, then moved to a Kindle download where I bookmarked them by hand; at the conclusion of a book they were transcribed into a Snoopy Moleskine, and finally, they appear here for your personal wonderment.
Daniel Boone sold deerskins called buckskins for varying amounts of English pounds and then American dollars. In America, the costs of these skins eventually were simply called a buck.
George Washington distilled Whiskey at Mount Vernon because he needed cash. In 1799 he distilled 11,000 gallons for a profit that would have been worth $142,000 in today’s dollars. He liked sweet wine, rum punch and whiskey.
Life is mostly about the pursuit of knowledge and, therefore, the collection of fun facts. All my fun facts were harvested personally … They started as a physical book purchase from Amazon, then moved to a Kindle download where I bookmarked them by hand; at the conclusion of a book they were transcribed into a Snoopy Moleskine, and finally, they appear here for your personal wonderment.
In 1970, Neal Schon was fifteen years old and had two job offers, one was to join Santana and the second was to go to England and play with Derek & the Dominoes.
When Woodstock started, Yogi Bhajan asked the audience to “meditate for one minute for brotherhood” to which a voice in the crowd screamed out: “Fuck you. Let’s boogie.”
Here’s the translation of the lyric in The Doors song “Five To One” that says “Five to one, one to five”: the first part is the preferred ratio for cutting heroin and the second part are the odds when playing Russian roulette.
Life is mostly about the pursuit of knowledge and, therefore, the collection of fun facts. All my fun facts were harvested personally…They started as a physical book purchase from Amazon, then moved to a Kindle download where I bookmarked them by hand; at the conclusion of a book they were transcribed into a Snoopy Moleskine, and finally, they appear here for your personal wonderment.
Earliest Italian organized crime was known as the “Black Hand”.
Italian mafia organizations: The Camorra in Campania/Naples; the Cosa Nostra in Sicily; the Ndrangheta in Calabria.
La Cosa Nostra means “Our Thing” or “This Thing of Ours”.
A “made man” in the mafia is one who has full membership in La Cosa Nostra; when this happens, the tradition is to prick one’s finger, smear blood on the picture of a saint and then burn the picture in the palm of the hand.
