Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Mike the Headless Chicken Days, and more bloody tidbits
By Mr. Smarty Pants, Fri., May 18, 2007
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According to the December 1989 issue of Playboy, Fred Astaire once made Ginger Rogers continue to rehearse even after her feet were bloody.
The world's largest pencil is on display near Kuala Lumpur. Made of Malaysian wood and polymer, it's 65 feet long.The U.S. now has nearly 5,000 robots in Iraq and Afghanistan, compared to 150 three years ago.
May 18-19, Fruita, Colo., celebrates Mike the Headless Chicken Days to commemorate the freak slaughtering accident in 1945 that left a chicken headless yet alive for 18 months (the standing world record).