- Caligula actually made his horse a Senator in the Roman government. Some believe this precedent explains a lot when it comes to understanding the current U.S. Congressional and Executive branches.
- It turns out that the parents of King Tutankhamen were brother and sister. Presumably this explains the derivation of the common admonition, tut-tut.
- The title of #1 Solo Recording Artist still belongs — quite appropriately our leader believes — to Garth Brooks. The other contestants could have missed the pain, but of course they’d have had to miss the dance.
- Historically getting “knocked up” meant that someone shot a pea at your bedroom window that morning in order to awaken you. The other kind of “knocked up” more likely took place the evening before in the same room.
- The longest active NFL sellout streak belongs to the Denver Broncos who began the record in 1970, proving if nothing else that for the last half of a century, there really hasn’t been all that much to do in Denver.
- History credits the use of our common term for prostitute to a famous Civil War General who brought them along with his troops, presumably to make war not quite 100% icky. His name was Joseph Hooker.
- Andrew Johnson took over as President after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. We do not know if this had anything to do with our use of the term his Johnson today.
- According to “Paper”TM — ironically an electronic publication — the best female models of all time were:
- Dovima
- Pantaeva
- Irina
- China
- Linda
- The Labrador retriever has held the top spot in the most popular dogs in the United States for decades now. This clearly demonstrates that too few members of our population have been exposed to the obvious superiority of the miniature dachshund.
- There is no such thing as the most popular cat breed.
In fairness, we will admit that this last fact spawned rousing debate in our office amongst those individuals that watch the Full House reboot on Netflix. Also, we might have made that last one up. … There is simply no reasoning with cat people, however, so it might be best to simply move along to today’s Feature Presentation, “Life Before In-Dash Navigation” — or whatever the ReelRisque folks decided to call it.
