Strange BUT TRUE

It was beloved English author and humorist P.G. Wodehouse, probably best known for his tales of Wooster and Jeeves, who made the following observation: “Judges, as a class, display, in the matter of arranging [divorce settlements] that reckless generosity which is found only in men who are giving away someone else’s money.”

* Brides in ancient Rome carried sheaves of wheat, not bouquets of flowers.

* Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States, had a pet parrot with a questionable vocabulary. In fact, Poll (the pet in question) was so foul-mouthed (-beaked?) that it disrupted Jackson’s funeral. According to Rev. William Menefee Norment, who presided at the service, “Before the sermon and while the crowd was gathering, a wicked parrot that was a household pet got excited and commenced swearing so loud and long as to disturb the people and had to be carried from the house.”

* The reasons why aren’t clearly understood, but it seems that people with high blood pressure rarely get cancer.

* Glass-bottom beer tankards were invented during medieval times. Evidently, some taverns were so rough that patrons felt the need to be able to see the other drinkers even when turn- ing the mug bottoms-up.

* Those who study such things say that when you’re sleeping, a quarter of all your blood is in your liver.

* It’s pretty common knowledge that it’s the male seahorse, not the female, that gives birth to the young. Not many people realize, though, that a male seahorse can deliver a brood of a thousand or more babies in the morning, and then be pregnant again that night.

*** Thought for the Day: “I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.”