93% of Campo, Colo.’s annual budget is generated from traffic tickets issued by one police officer.
A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
The term “ultima Thule” in medieval writings denotes any distant place located beyond the “borders of the known world.” Nazi occultists believed in a distant land in the far north called Thule as the ancient origin of the Aryan race.
Yawning cools your brain.
North Korean state media used to report that Kim Jong-il bowled a perfect 300 in his first match, and that he scored five holes in one and 38 under par in his first round of golf. Children are now being taught that his son, current dictator Kim Jong-un, learned to drive at the age of 3 and at age 9 won a yacht race against the chief executive of a foreign yacht company.
This article appears in May 29 • 2015.