Dr. Seuss drew anti-Japanese cartoons during WWII. He had an intense hate for the Japanese during the war. When he met the survivors of Hiroshima, he realized “A person is a person”. He later created Horton Hears a Who! as an apology, dedicating it to a Japanese friend.
It is a myth created by a marketing company to sell breakfast cereal. Breakfast being “the most important meal of the day” originated in a 1944 marketing campaign launched by General Foods, the manufacturer of Grape Nuts, to sell more cereal. During the campaign, grocery stores and radio ads promoted the importance of breakfast.
They can tell if a human has a firearm or not, Just like a domestic dog knows he will go for a walk if he sees a leash a wolf can see a human with a gun ( or smell the gunpowder from the gun ) and know that there is danger if they have previously had a bad experience.
A member of Al Capone’s gang promised federal agent Eliot Ness that $2000 (around $33,250 in today’s money) would be on his desk every Monday if he turned a blind eye to their bootlegging. Ness refused the bribe and in later years struggled with money; he died almost broke at the age of 54
Apart from gold, silver and bronze there is a forth medal awarded in the Olympics. The rarest Olympic Medal is the P ierre de Coubertin (aka True Spirit of Sportsmanship) medal. It has been awarded less than once per Olympics.
During WWI, France created a campaign to shame men into enlisting. Women would hand out White Feathers to men, not in uniform and berate them as cowards. It was so successful that the government had to create badges for men in critical civilian occupations so they would not be harassed
The revolving restaurant on top of the Seattle space needle weighs 125 tons. A 1.5 hp motor is the only energy needed to achieve this because the restaurant is perfectly balanced.33