You Can't Make This Stuff Up!

[Lee Stewart]

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----Here in southeast Michigan we are intentsly proud of our Warthogs. Selfridge AFB is a center for them and my wife and I see them fly above the Saint Clair river (border between us and the good guy Canucks) right over our house all the time. Its a beautiful thing and (at least with us) promotes an intense sense of pride in our country!...….Bill S

[Lee Stewart]

An airplane that drug lord Pablo Escobar used for smuggling cocaine adorns the entrance of Hacienda Nápoles. His once lavish estate is now a theme park with animal exhibits, waterslides, and dinosaur statues.

[Lee Stewart]

A sun star clings to tree kelp in the chilly South Atlantic off the coast of Bird Island in what looks like an underwater rain forest. The ridges that form the Falklands force nutrients up from the deep, creating a rich marine world that attracts all manner of fish, mammals, and birds.

[Lee Stewart]

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Both male and female reindeer grow antlers. But males shed them in the fall and females shed them in the spring. So Santa’s reindeer are actually female.

[Lee Stewart]

The Eiffel Tower was intended for Barcelona. The Spanish city thought the design was too ugly, so Gustave Eiffel pitched it to Paris instead for its 1889 International Exposition.

[Lee Stewart]

Why is a labor stoppage called a "strike"? Because in 1768, English sailors unhappy about a wage cut expressed their anger by taking down, or striking, the sails on ships in the port of London.

[Lee Stewart]

The radar gun was first used by a police department in Glastonbury, Conn., in 1947.