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• In 1867, Edward Payson Weston bet $10,000 that he could walk from Portland, Maine, to Chicago, Illinois in 26 days. The distance to be covered was 1,326 miles. He was accompanied by six judges in a horse-drawn carriage. He won the bet with two hours to spare.

In 1883 he walked 5,000 miles (8,046) in 100 days, and in 1909 he walked from New York to California— a distance of 3,895 miles— in 104 days. Then he turned around and walked back another 3,600 miles in 77 days. He was over 70 years old at the time.

• In 1910 in Paris, a truck broke down in the middle of the very busy road through the center of the Place de l’Opéra. The driver, a man named Horace De Vere Cole, got out, laid down underneath his car, and emerged after an hour having apparently made the repair.

Apologizing to police for the traffic jam he had caused, he drove away. That evening he collected a tidy sum from his friends who had bet him that he could not lie on his back for 30 minutes in the middle of the busiest traffic intersection in Paris.

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• On July 4, 1880, in Charleston, Arizona, George Warren challenged George Atkins to a race, placing a bet on the outcome. The bet was that Warren could outrun Atkins in a 100-yard race, with Warren on foot and Atkins on horseback. If he won, he'd take Atkins’ horse. If he lost, Atkins would take his 1/9th share in the Copper Queen mine in Bisbee, Arizona. Warren was figuring he could make a tighter turn around the pole that marked the turn-around spot half way through the race course. He was wrong. Atkins won the race. The share of the mine eventually turned out to be worth some $20 million. Warren lived the rest of his life in poverty and borderline insanity.

• A Native American once bet that he could run to a river and back before a pot of water set on the fire came to a boil. The bet was on, and he won. The tribe commemorated the incident by naming the valley "Ke-kala-kala-mazoo" which basically means "man runs to river before pot boils." Settlers later shortened to it Kalamazoo, a town in Michigan.

• Passengers on a ferry were alarmed to hear the cry of "Man overboard!" There was practical joker Wilson Mizner, treading water with a stopwatch in his hand. He had placed a bet on how long it would take to be rescued.

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• In 1809 a practical joker by the name of Theodore Hook bet his friend that he could make any address in the city the most famous house in town. The bet was on, and a particularly nondescript home was chosen on Berners Street in London.

• After finding that the home was occupied by an elderly widow named Mrs. Tottingham, Hook set about his mischief which entailed sending out over a thousand letters with Mrs. Tottingham's forged signature and address at the bottom of each.

• On a certain day the following week, Hook hid himself across the street and watched the fun. First a dozen different chimney sweeps appeared at her door, each one insisting that she had written to them and requested them to come clean her chimney on this date. While she was trying to convince them that she had not ordered a single chimney sweep, much less a dozen of them, several different coal merchants appeared, each bearing a ton of coal "just as she had ordered."

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• On Sept. 19, 1827, Jim Bowie nearly kills a banker in Louisiana with an early version of his famous Bowie knife. The actual inventor of the Bowie knife, however, probably was his equally belligerent brother, Rezin Bowie, who reportedly came up with the design after nearly being killed in a vicious knife fight.

• On Sept. 23, 1875, Billy the Kid is arrested for the first time after stealing a basket of laundry.

He later broke out of jail and roamed the American West, eventually compiling a rap sheet that allegedly included 21 murders.

• On Sept. 20, 1881, Chester Arthur is inaugurated, becoming the third person to serve as president in that year. Earlier in 1881, Rutherford B. Hayes finished his term and James Garfield was sworn in. Garfield was shot by a crazed assassin and died on Sept. 19. Arthur was sworn in the next day.

• On Sept. 21, 1939, President Franklin Roosevelt appears before Congress and asks that the Neutrality Acts be amended. Roosevelt hoped to lift an embargo against sending military aid to countries in Europe facing Nazi aggression.

• On Sept. 24, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson receives the Warren Commission's report on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas. Its conclusion that Oswald was a "lone gunman" failed to satisfy some who witnessed the attack.

• On Sept. 22, 1971, Capt. Ernest Medina is acquitted of all charges relating to the My Lai massacre in Vietnam. His unit was charged with the murder of over 200 Vietnamese civilians in a cluster of hamlets in March 1968. Thirteen others were charged with various crimes, but only Lt. William Calley was found guilty.

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• Nicholas Wood of Kent, England, made his fortune by being able to eat incredible amounts of food. Once he reportedly ate an entire sheep and 84 rabbits for one meal. A man named John Dale bet that he could buy two shillings worth of food that Wood would be unable to eat at one sitting.

Wood accepted. Dale bought 6 pots of strong ale and 12 loaves of bread. He soaked the bread in the ale, and Wood began to eat. Soon he became drunk and fell asleep before finishing. Dale won.

• According to legend, Ernest Hemingway was at a pub with friends when someone bet him $10 that he would be unable to write a story in six words or less. He wrote six words on a napkin, passed the napkin around the table, and collected his $10. The six words were: “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”

• In 1960, Bennet Cerf, co-founder of Random House, bet Theodore Geisel (AKA Dr. Seuss) that he couldn’t write a decent children’s book using only a vocabulary of fifty words or fewer.

Geisel chose fifty words and wrote “Green Eggs and Ham.” Likewise, the editor of HoughtonMifflin’s educational division challenged Geisel to write a book that first graders couldn’t put down, using a vocabulary of only 350 different words that first graders commonly know. The result, using only 236 words, was “The Cat in the Hat.” • In the late 1800s, Governor Leland Stanford of California made a $25,000 bet that nobody could prove that all four of a horse’s feet leave the ground at the same time while running. A photographer named Eadweard Muybridge placed multiple cameras with trip wires on a horse track so that when the horse passed the wire the camera would take a photograph. He not only proved that all four feet leave the ground, but also laid the groundwork for the motion picture industry.

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• The least toxic part of the plant is the fruit. The fruit looks like apples, smells like apples, and tastes like apples, yet Spanish conquistadors dubbed it “manzanita de la muerte” or “little apple of death.” The scientific name, “Hippomane mancinella” comes from the Greek words for “horse” and “madness.”

• Within minutes of taking a bite, the tongue and throat start to sizzle with a peppery taste before swelling and bleeding. Abdominal pain, vomiting, and digestive tract damage follow. Fortunately, death is rare because people rarely get beyond the first bite of the fruit before regretting their decision.

• The sap is even more poisonous than the fruit.

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Should any sap come into contact with the eyes, blindness will result.

• Leaning against the tree trunk is dangerous, cutting the tree down is dangerous, and even sitting underneath the tree to take shelter from a storm is dangerous, as rainwater dissolves the toxins and carries them downward.

• So toxic is the sap that the native Carib tribes used it to poison the tips of their arrows. Explorer Ponce de Leon was hit by such an arrow in the year 1521 on the southeastern coast of Florida. Although he escaped the attack, he died soon afterwards from the poison in his bloodstream.

• William Ellis, ship surgeon for explorer James Cook on his third and final voyage in 1780, wrote: "A party of men were sent to cut wood, as the island apparently afforded plenty of that article; amongst other trees they unluckily cut down several of the manchineel, the juice of which getting into their eyes, rendered them blind for several days."

• The leaves are also poisonous and local tribes would drop leaves into the water supply of their enemies to taint it.

• If you decide to eradicate a manchineel tree by burning it, the smoke will cause blindness and asphyxiation. If you cut the tree down, the wood and sawdust is toxic. However, carpenters are able to use the lumber if the wood is left to cure in the sun long enough for the poison to evaporate.

• Even merely standing near the tree or sitting underneath it for too long will cause irritation to the lungs by inhaling vapors given off by the sap.

• Not surprisingly, humans have worked hard to eradicate the tree, and it is now an endangered species.

Beach resorts often post warning signs on the trees, or spray paint the trunks with red paint to warn people away.

• Despite its drawbacks, however, the tree serves some useful purposes. It anchors fragile coastlines, preventing erosion during storms and providing a windbreak. Natives used extracts from the tree as medicine to treat edema, as a laxative, and for use as a diuretic. It’s possible that scientists could find a use for its biotoxins in medicine.

• Although the tree is toxic to humans and most other animals as well, there is a species of iguana that is impervious to the poison, and able to eat the fruit and live in the tree without suffering ill effects.

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• The discovery of radium in 1898 sparked a radioactive health craze. Here was an interesting glowin-the-dark phenomenon, popularized by a pretty woman named Madame Curie and her husband Pierre, who confirmed that the substance could destroy cancer cells. The public was dazzled.

• What transpired on the unregulated markets of capitalism was a worldwide industry of radium quackery: radium-laced cosmetics claimed to smooth your skin. Radium-infused blankets reportedly eased arthritis. Radioactive pendants helped with rheumatism and radium-laced pills aided digestion.

• In New Jersey, William Bailey called himself a doctor though he never studied medicine. He started producing radium-infused water in 1918, which he bottled and sold as a miracle cure-all.

Called Radithor, it was prescribed by doctors to cure everything from gout to baldness. It sold for $1 per bottle ($15 in today’s currency), and Bailey offered medical doctors a 17% kickback on every prescription they wrote out for Radithor.

• One of the more noteworthy recipients of a prescription was Eben Byers of Pittsburgh, PA, a wealthy and well-known industrialist and socialite. Eben had trouble with a broken arm in 1927.

His prescription for Radithor was supposed to heal the fracture by stimulating his endocrine system.

Instructions were to swallow an entire bottle once a day. Eben decided that if some was good, more was better. He started taking several every day.

• Every bottle of Radithor contained one microgram of radium and one microgram of thorium.

When radiation is swallowed, it lodges in the bone marrow where it remains. The half-life of radium is 1,600 years. It sits in the bones and bombards the local tissues with alpha particles, which cause cancer. ...continued

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• Eben swore it healed his arm and reduced his pain. He had Radithor shipped by the caseload to his house. He convinced his friends it was Answer: Dell. a miracle cure. But by 1930, Eben, now age A VERY 50, started gettingLARGE sick. ByNUMBER this time he had in•gested Edward Kasner1,400 was abottles mathematician.

In 1938 around of Radithor over he was asked to come up with a name for a the course of three years. He got headaches very large number: the numeral one, followed and lost weight. His teeth fell out. Abscesses by a hundred asked two young formed in his zeros. brain, He along withhisholes in his nephews what name they would suggest. skull. When he went for a professional opin•ion, Nine-year-old Milton with suggested name he was diagnosed radiationa poisonout of the funnies.

A cartoon strip character ing. He stopped drinking Radithor. By now his namedwere Barney was veryand popular.

Milton bones crumbling his jaw had chose to be Barney’s last name for the number. amputated. He died in 1932 at the age of 52.

•The Kasner announced the Street new name for the big article in the “Wall Journal” noted, number in his next book, altering the spelling.

“The radium water worked fine until his jaw •came Sixtyoff.” years later, Larry Page and Sergey Brin developed a new internet search engine. Other • When spread about search publicity engines searched each Eben’s webpagedeath and by radium water, William Bailey closed ranked them according to how many timesthe a factory. theappeared time a cease-and-desist specificBy term on them, but Pageorder and was he was longengine gone.toBailey Brindelivered, designed their search searchwas for never chargedterm withand anythen wrongdoing, andmany soon the specific find out how links there led back that page, opened a newwere shopthat in New Yorktomanufacturwhich resulted inbelt a better search engine. paing radioactive buckles, radioactive and they other needed products.

•perweights, They decided a Eventually, name that reflected many websites search the federal how government closed thatthecompany engine was searching.

They took the name down. of Edward Kasner’s very large number, only • Eben is buried in Allegheny Cemetery in they Byers misspelled it slightly, so it ended up being Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a lead-lined cofspelled exactly the samein way the cartoon fin.

His remains are highly radioactive. character Barney spelled his last name. What’s it called?did (Answer at bottom of page)epidemic • Radithor not cause a widespread FACTS of radiation COMPUTER poisoning because it was costly. At per dose, it wassaid, out of the kb reach of most •$15 In 1981 Bill Gates “640 of memory Americans. and could afought to be Eben enoughwas for wealthy anybody.” as many hecomputer wanted to take.

•ford Moore’s Lawdoses statesas that performance doubles everyled 18 to 24 and everofsince • This episode themonths, strengthening the 1971, this has been true.

Food and Drug Administration’s power to reg•ulate HP, patent Google,medicines.

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