September 16th is the most popular birthday in America!

Public health record indicate that birthdays in America are for the most part evenly distributed throughout the year, yet for some reason September 16th has more children born than any other day!

Why is this? There tend to be more births in September and October because there is a holiday season nine months prior and the longest nights of the year in the Northern Hemisphere fall nine months before those two months.

Also, based on Harvard research on birth records, December 25th is the least common birthday!  

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Chevy Chase escaped the draft by falsely claiming he had homosexual tendencies!

Chase, whose full name is Cornelius Crane Chase, studied in a couple different colleges. He graduated from Bard College in 1967 with a Bachelor of Arts in English.

He had studied pre-med during his undergraduate, but didn’t enter medical school, which made him subject to the military draft. In 1989 on the late-late Pat Sajak Show, he shared how he convinced his draft board that he deserved a 4-F Classification. He based it on falsely claiming, among other things, that he had homosexual tendencies.

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Incans developed walls that were earthquake proof.

The Incans built “dry stone” walls that could move and resettle without collapsing, making them essentially earthquake proof. Incan towns are located in highly seismic areas of Peru. Their “dry stone walls” were polished and were called ashlar. The stone was cut precisely to fit together snugly without mortar.

They were so precise, that a blade of grass couldn’t come between the stones. Incans were one of the best stonemasons the world has ever encountered. The stones could move slightly and resettle without collapsing or causing damage. The building technique applied both the principle of energy dissipation and suppression of resonant amplification.

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A pineapple is neither an apple nor a pine!

In fact, it’s a berry! A pineapple is a tropical plant of multiple edible fruits consisting of coalesced berries, named for its resemblance to the pinecone.

It is considered a multiple edible fruit because it is formed from a cluster of flowers, in which the inflorescence produces a fruit and matures into a single mass. A pineapple is simply a large berry misnamed because of its appearance!

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There’s a unit of measurement for nuclear explosion casualties known as “Megadeath”

The term is used for one million deaths by a nuclear explosion. It was used by scientists trying to strategize outcomes of using nuclear weapons. It first appeared in a dictionary in 1953. The concept was discussed in Herman Kahn’s book, “On Thermonuclear War.”

The term was used to refer to “megadeath intellectuals” which was the group of thinkers from Kahn who was a RAND Corporations strategist. The term could also be used for other weapons of mass destruction.

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