The Privy Report
Copyright© 2022 by Old Grey Duck
Chapter 14
More Random Stuff;
People are more creative in the shower. When we take a warm shower, we experience an increased dopamine flow that makes us more creative.
Baby rabbits are called kits. Cute!
The unicorn is the national animal of Scotland. It was apparently chosen because of its connection with dominance and chivalry as well as purity and innocence in Celtic mythology.
The first airplane flew on December 17, 1903. Wilbur and Orville Wright made four brief flights at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, with their first powered aircraft, aka the first airplane. (On a personal note, in 1995 I was visiting my grandmother in her care facility, and while she couldn’t recall who was the current president (Slick Willie), she could recall events as a child with astonishing clarity. She told me about how her father had sat in the front parlor of the house, reading a newspaper article to the family “about two crazy bicycle makers in North Carolina who made a mechanical kite large enough to carry a man”.)
A 73-year-old bottle of French Burgundy became the most expensive bottle of wine ever sold at auction in 2018, going for $558,000 (approx £439,300). The bottle of 1945 Romanee-Conti sold at Sotheby for more than 17 times its original estimate of $32,000.
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