A cocky State Highway employee stopped at a farm and talked with an old farmer. He told the farmer, “I need to inspect your farm for a possible new road.”
The old farmer said, “OK, but don’t go in that field.” The Highway employee said, “I have the authority of the State Government to go where I want. See this card? I am allowed to go wherever I wish on farm land.”
So the old farmer went about his farm chores.
Later, he heard loud screams and saw the State Highway employee running for the fence and close behind was the farmer’s prize bull. The bull was madder than a nest full of hornets and the bull was gaining on the employee at every step!!
A single share of Coca-Cola stock that was purchased in 1919 for $40 would be worth $9.8 million today.
In 2012, a stray cat became a seeing eye guide for a blind dog named Terfel and uses its paws to gently lead him around the house.
China is currently constructing the world’s highest and longest glass-bottom bridge. It will be over 1,400 feet long.
In 2013, a 10-year-old boy named Griffin Sanders from Colorado saved his great-grandmother’s life in a speeding vehicle after she fell unconscious. He did this by driving it himself, which he learned by playing Mario Kart.
In 2012, the entire village of Sodeto in Spain won the lottery, except for one man who was never offered a ticket, as those who were selling them forgot to ask him.
Thanks to 3D printing, it is now possible for blind, expectant mothers to have a three-dimensional ultrasound printed for them to sense the image of their unborn child.
There’s a pub in Athlone, Ireland called Sean’s Bar that has been open since 900 AD.
South Africa’s Witwatersrand Basin, which is only 2.7 square miles, has produced more gold than any other continent; about 50 thousand tons over 120 years, which is nearly half the gold ever mined.
Explanation: How did a hamster wheel get into space? The Hamster Wheel Nebula (Longmore 8) was discovered by Andrew Longmore in 1976 as a part of a larger survey of the southern sky. This survey employed several improvements in photographic technology, including the use of highly sensitive film, to capture deeper and fainter objects on plates that were examined by eye and catalogued. The featured image, taken at Observatorio El Sauce in Chile, depicts an intricate wheel structure of glowing hydrogen that was thrown out into space by a dying star and ionized by the leftover white dwarf. This structure was barely visible on the original plate, emphasizing the power of modern telescopes and cameras. Two opposing clumps of red hydrogen gas encased in the blue veil of ionized oxygen hint at the presence of a companion to the bright white dwarf at the wheel’s center!
