The 4:3 aspect ratio of the standard TV screen was devised by Thomas Edison in 1889.

Frank Buckland (1826-1880) tried to encourage eating exotic wildlife. But after a 1868 horse-eating banquet, he admitted that the practice had little chance of success in England, and noted that calling the meat “hippocreas” wouldn’t help.

The average salary for a first-year army private is $20,672.

North Carolina’s hogs now outnumber its citizens and produce more fecal waste than all the people in California, New York, and Washington combined.

Ants stretch when they wake up.

This article appears in Lost Austin I.

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