Who Knew? Some Fun Facts

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RadishRose said:
In 1963, major league baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run."

On July 20, 1969, an hour after Neil Armstrong set foot on the surface of the moon, Perry hit his first, and only, home run while playing for the San Francisco Giants.
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Speaking of Perry; my dad and I were watching a Yankee game when the announcer said they were bringing Gaylord Perry in to play. My mother had just entered the room and stopped in her tracks. She could not believe a guy named Gaylord was really a baseball player.

We had her sit down and at least watch one inning Perry pitched. I told her he also had a baseball playing brother. I told her to guess his name, and she said, please don't tell her his name was Lord Fauntleroy. I cracked up at that one, and my father said that she really gave a great answer, albeit being wrong.

When I told her it was James, she didn't believe me at first. Mom became a #1 Gaylord Perry fan after that day.
 

According to a global analysis study published in the journal Science Advances, half of all plastics ever produced have been manufactured in the last 15 years, and half of that becomes trash in less than a year. The same durable properties that make plastics so useful also make them impossible to completely break down.
 
DebraMae said:
According to a global analysis study published in the journal Science Advances, half of all plastics ever produced have been manufactured in the last 15 years, and half of that becomes trash in less than a year. The same durable properties that make plastics so useful also make them impossible to completely break down.
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And we all hate it for packaging, so the fact legislators haven't been banned it yet raises a lot of eyebrows.

Most of that packaging is 100% unnecessary. Tie the dang item to a piece of cardboard for gods sake. (bio-degradable)
 
Pink Biz said:
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Before we moved to my grandparent's farm, we lived near what everyone called a Hobo Camp. It was near the railroad in a little town called Loomis, CA. Hopping trains is how they got around.

My older brother used to hike about a mile to that hobo camp once or twice a week, and they shared their coffee with him, and sometimes he'd put a few slices of homemade bread or some cookies in a brown paper lunch bag to give to them.

He was only 7.

He took me with him once. I was 4, but I remember it very well; they had a fire going with a pot of coffee and a can of beans and a can of stew heating up over it. They offered us food, but my brother told me in advance not to eat their food bc they never had enough for themselves. A hobo named Stow was keeper of my brother's tin coffee cup bc he didn't travel much.
 

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