Did You Know?

• In order to obtain good luck, it is customary for crew aboard the USS Ronald Reagan to carry a picture of former US president Jimmy Carter, but no-one will officially confirm this as it is bad luck to speak his name or let anyone see the picture.
• Over 45% of all personal ads are coded messages from spies hoping to hook up with other spies for fun and perhaps more.
• Before tobacco spread through Europe in the early 16th century, people smoked all manner of things including grated carrot, goat hair, sand and eggshells.
• Carbon dating of Caravaggio's David and Goliath have revealed that the work was painted somewhere between 3,000 and 4,000 years in the future.
• In 1972 a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the A-Team.

Lou Harrison - Gigue And Musette (from Rhymes With Silver LP)