Strange But True: July 4, 2019

STRANGE BUT TRUE

by Samantha Weaver

* It was noted 20th-century American poet e.e. cummings who made the following sage observation: "The most wasted of all days is one without laughter."

* Those who study such things claim that a single teaspoon of ordinary soil contains more living creatures than all the humans on the planet.

* Albert Einstein's final words are lost to history. He spoke his last words in his birth tongue, German, and it seems that the nurse who was attending him during his last moments spoke only English.

* Other than the fact that they were all famous writers, what did Char...