SHEEP PREFER FEMALE LEADERSHIP

Among flocks of wild sheep, leadership often goes to the most experienced mother as opposed to the biggest or strongest ram.

One of the hooves of Marengo, Napoleon’s most-prized horse, was saved when the animal died and made into a silver-mounted snuff box.

John Harvey Kellogg, a medical doctor, invented flaked breakfast cereal in 1895 and introduced Corn Flakes in 1898. One of Kellog’s former patients, Charles Post, became a competitor with his own Grape-Nuts cereal.

In the United States, a major symphony conductor has an expected life-span of 73.4 years. But an author of political poetry is expected to live only 64.47 years. College and university presidents have an average life-span of 70.11 years.

President Calvin Coolidge is remembered by historians as a great respecter of the rules of the road. While driving, he never accelerated to more than 16 miles per hour.

The oval wan-wan, the largest kite ever built, was created to celebrate the reconstruction of Japan’s Rengiji Temple in 1692. The kite measured about 65 feet across and weighed nearly 5,500 pounds. Flying the kite required 200 strong men, and if the wind did not subside overnight, the kite sometimes remained airborne for days because it was impossible to haul down.