Today I learned about the real Iron Mike - aka Mike the Durable. He was targeted for a life insurancy scam and endured a variety of different murder attempts: copious amounts of alcohol, wood alchohol and antifreeze, sardines mixed with shrapnel and poison - and he was run over twice. He survived it all. smithsonianmag.com/histor…
"sardine" isn't actually species of fish but rather a generic name given to to various small, oily fish within the herring family of Clupeidae. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sar…
The phrase the “Bees Knees” likely evolved around the 1920s along with the “cats pajamas,” the snake's hips", "the kipper's knickers" and "the sardine's whiskers" unlike the others though Bees actually do have Knees (go sciencefocus.com/nature/d…
Germans soldiers in WW2 executed Jews in a manner known as "sardines" , so as to lay one layer of bodies after the other in the opposite direction to maximize bodies per grave; often forcing still living people to lay on the bodies of the dead before themselves being shot en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C…
"sardine" isn't actually species of fish but rather a generic name given to to various small, oily fish within the herring family of Clupeidae. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sar…
The Pacific sardine population has declined 95 percent since 2006 and it is now below the minimum level required to support a commercial fishery. All U.S. sardine fishing was closed in 2015. usa.oceana.org/responsibl…
Nazi war criminal Friedrich Jeckeln's killing style was known as "sardine packing" and was so cruel that it horrified even some of the experienced Einsatzgruppen killers en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fri…
In 1933, a man named Michael Malloy had 3 life insurance policies taken out on him by 5 men in New York. Malloy survived multiple attempts on his life, including being given antifreeze, a sardine sandwich with carpet tacks, forced exposure, and being hit with a taxi at 45 mph. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mic…
A lot of different stuff is dropped at midnight on New Year's Eve around the world... like a sardine, an opossum and a 600-pound Moon Pie en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lis…
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