True: In January of 2013, police in Southern California said that 200 to 250 motorcyclists blocked traffic on the highway, before a biker “performed a burn out for several seconds”, and “then proposed to his passenger.” As their way of participating in the happy couple’s engagement party, police later arrested four men.

California Highway Patrol stated that Hector Martinez (fiance), 24, Mike John David Gutierrez, 38, Giovanni Mendez, 19, and Rudy Cadena, 24, were arrested Thursday in connection with the incident on the number 10 Freeway in West Covina, California.

“Several of the motorcyclists on scene applauded, videotaped and photographed the incident, which was posted on YouTube,” the police report said (http://youtu.be/WYRnDPBn5C4). “After a thorough investigation, four of the main individuals involved in this incident were identified, and charged with misdemeanor public nuisance, and unlawful assembly.” Martinez was also charged with exhibition of speed.

True: While lions are mentioned, and virtually all other domestic animals are mentioned in the Christian Holy Book, it was not to be the fate of domestic felines. No one seems to have a concrete answer as to why it is so, but some speculate that it’s because the Israelites were a nomadic tribe, unlike the Egyptian urban dwellers, so they would have little use for cats.

There was also likely a social-phobic ancient idol stigma associated with cats, with their images and symbology long associated with the worship of ‘other’ gods, to whom the Israelites were ‘shaddim’ (‘shadd-eem’ the plural form of ‘shaddai’), and so were to be scrupulously avoided, or mentioned.

Or, maybe it was because domestic cats were often companions of the Continue reading »

True: There is an area on your face called the Triangle of Death. It is the area from the bridge of your nose, to the corners of your mouth. Popping a pimple in this area, is like playing Zit Russian Roulette. Continue reading »

True: On the March 30, 2005 Powerball drawing, a record 110 players matched five of the six numbers drawn for the 2nd place prize. The second-place winners were due $100,000 to $500,000 each, depending on how much they had bet, so paying all 110 of them meant almost $19 million in unexpected payouts. The average number of people getting five or of six numbers was usually only for or five, so with 110 second place winners, officials thought someone was cheating the system.

However, each of the 110 winners were legit. All of them had picked the Continue reading »

True: The German auto manufacturers seem to have no excuses for maps of the Middle East on their web sites that failed to mention Israel. It began when, on August 8th, 2002, attention was drawn to the web site BMW Middle East, whose map of BMW service locations throughout Continue reading »