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Potato Heads & Crunchy Captains.

Organically-Uncovered Fun Facts

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.

Getting Philosophical … People say smart, clever things (well, I mean, I don’t, but …) and some people write them down, catalog them or make note of them so they can put them to good use later or, more likely, forget about them entirely like you do your computer passwords. Here are a few: “Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded” (Buddha said that) … “Argue as if you’re right but listen as if you’re wrong” … “Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.”

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Fun With U.S. Presidents*

Beginning with Abe Lincoln in 1860 and continuing through the late 1890s all U.S. presidents had facial hair, but since William Howard Taft in 1913, no president has had whiskers.

That’s gotta piss the hipsters off. Over 100 years and nary a soul patch. Not a handlebar, a Fu Manchu, a gnarly sideburn, not even a Van Dyke (a Van Dyke is any form of both a goatee and a mustache with the cheeks bare). That’s because a president can’t just roll out of bed and look the way he wants. He has to be coiffed and get bossed around by handlers who are seemingly in possession of some poll that says the old gals in Oshkosh find a 72-hour growth unpresidential. Facial hair, probably not important. But presidents are – important and fascinating and odd and unlikely and flawed and funny. Presidents are a hot topic in my insignificant little life.

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Making A Buck

Fun Facts: American Business

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.

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