You Can't Make This Stuff Up!

[Lee Stewart]

Neither a team of reluctant engineers nor gravity itself could keep architect Frank Lloyd Wright from achieving one of his most daring designs in 1939. His cantilevered construction was built directly over a waterfall of the Bear Run tributary to house Kaufmann’s Department Store owner Edgar J. Kaufmann Sr. and his family.

Fallingwater in Mill Run, Pennsylvania

[Lee Stewart]

Flatiron Building in Atlanta, Georgia

In 1897, five years before construction was completed on New York's Flatiron Building, Atlanta unveiled the original wedge-shaped edifice downtown. Impressively, the sliver of a building boasts 44,000 square feet and includes 11 floors occupied by businesses large and small.

[Lee Stewart]

Santa rides the surf instead of a sleigh in California's Laguna Niguel Surfing Santa competition.

[Lee Stewart]

Buffalo Bill's house puts on a fantastic display in Nebraska for "Christmas at the Cody's."

[big gear head]

Originally Posted by Lee Stewart

When I was a kid I remember seeing adds on TV that said in 20 years Florida would be under water due to rising global temperatures. That should have happened more than 20 years ago. I've never bought into the global warming hoax.

[Lee Stewart]

According to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), there are three grades of ketchup: A (which is the highest grade and it's called "fancy"), B (or "extra standard"), and C ("standard").

Grades are assigned to different types of ketchup after four different factors are assessed: color, consistency, presence of defects and flavor (it's almost as fancy as grading diamonds!).

[Lee Stewart]

The Rock of Gibraltar

[Lee Stewart]

Yellow peppers are an infinitely better source of vitamin C than oranges are.

[Lee Stewart]

[Lee Stewart]

50 years later, it still boggles my mind that you could walk into a Dodge dealership and drive away with one of these (same for the Plymouth Superbird).