Occasionally, hot dog sales at baseball stadiums exceed attendance, but typically, hot dog sales at ballparks average 80 percent of the attendance.

George Washington spent Christmas night 1776 crossing the Delaware River in dreadful conditions. Christmas 1777 fared little better - at Valley Forge, Washington and his men had a miserable Christmas dinner of Fowl cooked ...Read More

When the Krampus finds a particularly naughty child, it stuffs the child in its sack and carries the frightened thing away to its lair, presumably to devour for its Christmas dinner.

Bert Lahr's unforgettable performance in The Wizard of Oz in 1939 apparently hurt his career in films. He told friend George Burns that typecasting meant "that they call me every time a role comes up for a cowardly lion. ...Read More

King Francis I of France is reported to have paid master artist Leonardo da Vinci 4,000 gold crowns for his masterpiece "Mona Lisa," but the king did not get immediate possession. Da Vinci kept the painting hanging on a ...Read More

The town of Fort Atkinson, Iowa was the site of the only fort ever built by the U.S. government to protect one Indian tribe from another.