True Stories

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The former mayor of Providence, Rhode Island Buddy Cianci's wife was named Nancy-Anne...

Nancy-Anne Cianci!

Peaches and nectarines are the same fruit, with the difference being a recessive gene that makes nectarines non-fuzzy

Penguins and pelicans have specialized salt glands that function like tiny desalination filters, allowing them to drink saltwater

Giraffes and humans have the same number of neck vertebrae. In reality, all but three mammals have seven neck vertebrae - the exceptions being the manatee (6), two-toed sloth (5 or 6), and three-toed sloth (9).

Both former presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died on the SAME day-

That day was the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence of which they were both signers!

though penguins cannot fly, les pingouins peuvent voler

Robert Todd Lincoln was a stone's throw away when three presidents were assassinated: his father in 1865; Garfield in 1881; and McKinley in 1901. During the Civil War, he was pushed against the side of a train that started to pull away from the station; he lost his footing and his feet fell into a gap between the platform and the moving train. He said he was suddenly pulled up by the collar of his coat and recognized the face of the man who had rescued him: the famous actor Booth, brother of the man who would kill Abraham Lincoln a couple of years later.

Thank you, Luther Burbank at r2.

Honey is the only food that does not spoil.

R7 That’s actually fascinating. That cunt was a jinx.

Corn? When did I have corn?

Blondie Bumstead's maiden name is Boopadoop.

Every time Jack Nicholson won an Oscar his female lead also won the Oscar

Every 4-digit number that reads the same forward and back (i.e 8778, 4004, 3333, etc) is evenly divisible by 11.

Wilma Flintstone was the first cartoon character to be shown pregnant

Wilma Flish-shrone

Trump was already wearing diapers back when he was doing The Apprentice.

Every even number greater than 2 is the sum of two primes.

(Not proven for all numbers but verified by computer up to four quadrillion — that is, 4,000,000,000,000,000,000.)

OP, it's "Jack LaLanne."

That's a true story.

You might also have mentioned that Elaine LaLanne is still alive, at 99.

That's also a true story.

When a Roman priest in a church that held John the Baptist's skull as a treasured relic was asked why other churches claimed also to have the head of the saint in their possession, he responded:

"But we have the skull of John the Baptist from when he was a young man."