Animals
Music-Impregnated Milk
In this 1910 experiment, nine musicians played the "Blue Danube" waltz and other selections while farm hands milked 61 Jerseys and Holsteins.The result: "The music calmed the nerves of the cows and their udders let down all the milk in them." Also, this milk "tasted better and had a more happy effect upon the drinkers than the milk served which had not been 'music impregnated.'"
Why aren't the upscale food stores of today (like Whole Foods) selling music-impregnated milk? I'm sure there are people who would spend the extra money for it.
Source: The Louisiana Comrade - Aug 26, 1910; also printed in the Red Lake Falls Gazette (1910).
Posted By: Alex - Sat May 09, 2015 -
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Category: Animals, Food, Music, Experiments
Kiss Of Death
Next up for Darwin Award near miss- guy who tried to kiss a cottonmouth snake on the lips. Yeah, he's from Florida.
Posted By: Alex - Wed Apr 22, 2015 -
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Category: Animals, Injuries, Really Bad Ideas, Screwups, Pain, Self-inflicted and Otherwise
Bird in radiator grille
I find the physics of this a bit baffling. How exactly did a bird of that size get through the grille? abc.net.au
Posted By: Alex - Wed Apr 22, 2015 -
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Category: Animals, Cars
Polly Wants Rescued
Firefighters rushed into a burning home to rescue whoever was screaming FIRE! and HELP! To their surprise instead of people they discovered parrots. I guess the birds do understand some of what they are saying after all.
Posted By: Alex - Mon Apr 20, 2015 -
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Category: Animals, Pets
Alligator Joe
Proving that Florida, home to our esteemed Chuck Shepherd, has harbored weirdos for over a century.
Original article here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Apr 20, 2015 -
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Category: Animals, Eccentrics, 1900s, 1910s
John Deere Manure Spreader
Eeyeuw! Thank god I am not a farmer, driving one of those manure plows. On the other hand, that manure spreader is pretty awesome. More of a "manure blaster" really. I envision "borrowing" one fully loaded with the most liquid poop and driving it down Main Street to wreak smelly, smelly vengeance.
By the way: if you want to see two hundred manure spreader videos, here is a YouTube playlist.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Apr 12, 2015 -
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Category: Agriculture, Animals, Technology, Excrement
The Dripping Bloody Hawk-Mummy of War
Original article here.
In 1930 we learn, from no less an authority than the founder of the Boy Scouts, about this macabre prescient bird corpse.
A followup article the same year explains more, and gives the owner's name.
Then after four years, the hawk crops up again.
Original article here.
Since then, nothing. I wonder what ever became of this talisman?
Posted By: Paul - Thu Apr 09, 2015 -
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Category: Animals, Superstition, War, 1930s
California Roadkill Database
Find out what's been run over in the past 90 days. There's even a roadkill photo gallery. The site is maintained by UC Davis researchers who use it to track the movement of species throughout the state.
Posted By: Alex - Wed Apr 08, 2015 -
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Category: Animals, Death
Victoria the Bowling Kangaroo
Who knew that kangaroos could bowl!
MATCHING FIGURES — Shapely actress Monique Van Vooren is all set to match strikes and spares with Victoria, the bowling kangaroo, at the opening of a huge new bowling alley in New York. The bowling palace is the newest and largest of its kind in the East.
Source: Pampa Daily News - Oct. 1, 1958
Posted By: Alex - Mon Apr 06, 2015 -
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Category: Animals, Sports, 1950s
Town terrorized by mad cats
This sounds like it could have been the start of a horror movie. The feline version of The Birds perhaps.
Source: San Francisco Call - May 26, 1890. via WSIHN
Posted By: Alex - Sun Apr 05, 2015 -
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Category: Animals, Cats, Nineteenth Century
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