You Can't Make This Stuff Up!

[Lee Stewart]

Morton’s Toe is when your second toe is longer than your first “big toe.” This condition is also known by many other names, including “Greek foot,” “Royal toe,” “turkey toe,” “LaMay toe” or “Sheppard's toe.”



Did you know . . . . the Statute of Liberty has Morton's Toe.

[Lee Stewart]

Ellis Island actually didn’t force any immigrants to “Americanize” their names.

The popular story goes that many “foreign” sounding last names (often Jewish or Irish) were changed by immigration officers at Ellis Island to be more “American” and easier to pronounce in their new home. This is just a myth. These officers were often immigrants themselves and had no such instructions to offer suggestions for name changes. Nobody has been able to find concrete evidence of a single name being forcefully changed at Ellis Island. This myth comes from the fact that many immigrants actually willingly changed their names before boarding their respective ships to America, where they’d have to fill out a name in the ship's log.

[Lee Stewart]

You don’t need a state driver’s license to compete in NASCAR.

[Lee Stewart]

Countries that have not adopted the metric system (in red: Burma (Myanmar), Liberia and the United States)

[dykstra]

I am officially addicted to this thread! Thanks Lee

[Lee Stewart]

Apple has become the world’s first company to be valued at $1 trillion

[Lee Stewart]

It’s illegal to import Sea Turtles as food or for any other purpose due to their endangered status

[Lee Stewart]

it’s illegal to sell redfish in every state except Mississippi.

[Lee Stewart]

Google was originally named BackRub

[Dave Rifkin]

Originally Posted by dykstra

I am officially addicted to this thread! Thanks Lee

So am I; love the cool pictures and interesting facts. Who knows, if I keep visiting this thread I might have enough information to go on Jeopardy...............nah.