Things Now Known #3
- The sign language for Madonna is to spatially outline a conical bra. I’m sure that only applies to the singer. (via Fry’s Planet Word)
- The cars at Cadillac Ranch are half-buried at the same angle as the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt.
- Chris McManus won an Ig Nobel Prize in 2002 for his report on Scrotal Asymmetry in Man and in Ancient Sculpture.
- In 1952 Albert Gunter drove his number 78 double-decker bus over Tower Bridge in London when he realised it was being opened. (via Wikipedia)
- Adrian Bell, the father of Martin Bell, was the first compiler of The Times crossword.
Authored by Carl D. Patterson, a software developer by trade who tinkers with the web, reads and watches films in his spare time.