“Quixotry” (pronounced KWIK-suh-tree) (noun) f\\ wild, visionary idea, unpredictable, an eccentric notion or act; a quixotism.
In 1976, a horrifying discovery was made at the Nu-Pike Amusement Park in Long Beach, California.
A camera crew for the television show The Six Million Dollar Man was visiting the park to film a scene in the funhouse. While preparing the set for filming, one of the crew members went to move what he thought was a mannequin hanging from a noose.
But according to Snopes, when he moved it, one of its arms broke off. It was no mannequin. To the crew member’s shock, he saw that the arm contained what was clearly a real human bone. He had broken the arm of an actual corpse.
As the crew soon learned, the body was that of Elmer McCurdy, an outlaw born in 1880 who had accomplished little while he was alive — but found much success as a sideshow attraction following his death in 1911.
A couple of carnival owners had acquired the mummified body so that they could display and profit from it themselves. His corpse was displayed throughout the United States as a sideshow attraction, calling him “The Bandit Who Wouldn’t Give Up.”
Eventually, the carnival sold Elmer McCurdy’s body, and over the next several decades, the mummy got into the hands of different people seeking to profit from it. Many of them were unaware that it was a real corpse.
For 65 years, his mummified body had one wild ride, showing up at an amusement park near Mount Rushmore, the Hollywood Wax Museum, and several haunted houses.
Eventually, the corpse somehow made its way into the Nu-Pike Amusement Park. Like many of the body’s previous owners, the park operators had assumed it was fake.
After the camera crew stumbled upon the corpse in 1976, police identified it as McCurdy’s.
Over six decades after his death, Elmer McCurdy was finally laid to rest at Summit View Cemetery in Guthrie, Oklahoma, putting an end to his bizarre afterlife as a sideshow attraction.
### Hippos are more dangerous than sharks. Hippos are massive, semi-aquatic herbivores native to sub-Saharan Africa, weighing up to 9,920 pounds and standing over 5 feet tall.
As the world’s third-largest land mammal, they spend days in water to stay cool, grazing at night. They are highly aggressive, known as the deadliest large land mammal, with few natural predators besides humans.
Despite their size, they are herbivores that consume up to 110 pounds of grass per night. An adult hippo can hold its breath underwater for five minutes or longer when submerged. When agitated, a hippo can charge at up to 14 miles per hour (30 kilometers per hour) on land.
I guess that’s why hippos won’t replace sharks in any new “Jaws” movies - they can go up to three weeks without eating and they don’t want to consume people — just their lawns! ### The movie “Jaws” turned 50 last summer? It was was released on June 20,1975.
Over the years, Jaws has become such a cultural touchstone that, in 2001, the Library of Congress added it to its National Film Registry of culturally and historically significant movies. ### A Butt Is a Unit of Measurement — If we’re talking imperial measurements, a “butt” is a cask of liquid. And while this form of “butt” is obsolete for most people, it’s still used in wine and brewing contexts. In the wine world, a butt is around 108 imperial gallons (just under 500 liters, or around 126 U.S. gallons), so it turns out that a buttload is...a buttload.