Thomas Midgley, Jr. has been said to have "had more impact on the atmosphere than any other single organism in Earth's history."  Midgley invented tetra-ethyl lead, a gasoline additive that raised octane ratings and released record amounts of lead into the atmosphere that have been linked to health problems worldwide, and chlorofluorocarbon, also known as Freon, which is responsible for the hole in the ozone layer.  In 1951 he contracted polio, which crippled him, and developed a system of ropes on pulleys that lifted him out of bed and strangled him in 1955.

There are literally thousands of different types of cordyceps, the parasitic fungi that controls the minds of infected insects and guides them to an ideal (for the fungi) place to die before sprouting from their bodies to spread its spores, and each type preys on only one species of insect.

Historians and doctors of today believe that Charles Floyd, the only man who died during the Lewis and Clark Expedition, passed as the result of appendicitis and the eventual rupture of his appendix, for which there was no cure in 1804.  He would have died even if he'd stayed home.  His burial site is in modern day Sioux City, Iowa, where he is commemorated with a monument that looks the same as George Washington's, only significantly smaller.

Hulu.com, the website that offers a legal way to watch television shows and (so far, mostly bad) movies online any time, adds new episodes after they have aired on television in Hawaii.  This means that, if you live on the East Coast, you have to wait six hours after you've missed a show to catch it online.  Thus, I will not be able to watch the most recent episode of Family Guy, which my mother described as "funny," tonight.

A "Tijuana Bible" is a small comic book, typically eight pages long with a single panel to a page, depicting explicit sexual activity and often staring well-known comic book characters.  Little is known about the artists of these works, but Wesley Morse, the creator of 'Bazooka Joe,' is behind some of the more widely circulated 'Bibles' from the 1930s.

Seed Bombs, dried balls of wildflower or grass seeds, fertilizer, and clay designed to be thrown to unreachable locations and create unexpected plant growth, are one tool in a larger movement called guerrilla gardening, in which activists tend gardens or otherwise react against urban sprawl in neglected publicly or privately held areas.

Benjamin Harrison was the 23rd President of the United States of America, serving one term from 1889 to 1893.  I took two years of AP US History and I swear I was unaware of this man until a few minutes ago.