The record for most miles driven by a single car is held by a man named Irv Gordon’s whose 1966 Volvo P1800 has reached 3 million miles this year. He has owned the car since new and still drives it at age 74

The matador’s red cape does not need to be red to provoke the bull. The bull is color blind. The red color hides splatters of blood from the audience during the finale stabbing. 

 Astronaut Michael Collin’s secret fear was that he had to return to Earth alone, leaving Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stranded on the moon. He sometimes thought it would be better to not have that option.

 A NASA astronaut waited 19 years to fly in space. Don Lind was selected in 1966 but was chosen for canceled missions, or as a backup for missions; he said, “I was backing up two of the most depressingly healthy people you can imagine.” Lind finally flew on the space shuttle in 1985.

Amazing Rocky thanks for that

                   That the  Hymn Abide with Me Was written in Marazion

                      An elephant’s ability to smell water is so refined; they can sometimes detect water sources from as much as 12 miles away. –

   . There are only 230 people in the armed forces of Iceland. –

 Cephalopods (Octopus) have been known to climb out of their aquaria, maneuver a distance of the lab floor, enter another aquarium to feed on the crabs, and then return to their own aquarium. –

       Pancho Villa’s last words before he died were: “Don’t let it end like this. Tell them I said something.”

  The Sun is a perfect sphere ever observed in nature.

 In 2016, a Florida man tossed an alligator through a drive-thru window. He was charged with “assault with a deadly weapon.” – Source

    Dog Days’ of summer are actually defined as the period from July 3 through Aug. 11 when the Dog Star, Sirius, rises in conjunction (or nearly so) with the sun. 

                     .  In 1958 two pilots flew an aircraft for more than two months without landing, refueling by matching speed with a truck driving down a road. Their record has not been broken.

Didn’t know either Rocky & Sue. Happy birthday to your sister for yesterday 

That it is my eldest sisters birthday today

The largest solid gold statue on Earth is a Buddha located in a temple in Bangkok, Thailand. The seated figure is approximately 9.8 feet tall and weighs about 5.5 tons. 

Didn’t know that